Restaurant owners beware: Flimflam artists pretending to be hearing impaired are trying to steal hundreds of dollars from St. Louis area eateries.

The Better Business Bureau in St. Louis said that two city restaurants were marked in the clever, if complicated,…

Consumer scams involving debt collection and predatory lending topped the list of the 10 most common consumer complaints in 2008, the National Association of Attorneys General announced this week.

“With the recession and increased foreclosure rates, consumers need to be on high…

Consumer complaints went up last year while public resources directed at helping consumers went down, according to a survey released in Washington today by three watchdog groups.

Of the 34 state, county and city agencies that participated in the survey, 62…

Here’s tomorrow’s Savvy Consumer column, which appears weekly in Saturday’s Post-Dispatch:

When David Eilering and Carla Thompson booked the Bevo Mill for their October 2009 wedding reception, they never feared for its future. The restaurant was a landmark, not some fly-by-night…

file photo (Emily Rasinski/P-D)

The abrupt closing of Bevo Mill illustrates how, thanks to the bad economy, brides-to-be and future grooms need to be especially cautious when they’re planning their wedding.

At least two dozen people have told the Post-Dispatch that they’re…

One of the postcards advertising the free necklace.

A Florida businessman with a history of snookering Missouri and Illinois residents seems to be at it again — this time with a direct-mail offer of a “gold-toned” necklace valued at $50.…

• If you missed my story in Saturday’s Post-Dispatch about store liquidations, here it is and here’s the lede:

“With Circuit City’s going-out-of-business sale wrapping up Sunday, and liquidations under way at the Crestwood Macy’s and elsewhere, bargain hunters should remember that those…