Teaching note for product 9B01M046.

The rent-to-own industry is a four billion-dollar industry that rents appliances, furniture and electronic goods to customers. There is a potential threat to the rent-to-own industry as a result of an article in a national newspaper that accused the industry of taking advantage of poor consumers. Law makers and politicians were becoming active on the issue and the industry must formulate a response. Would the public really care enough about the rent-to-own .....more