Damning Gambling Commission report reveals how racing risks being caught in the crossfire over the row raging about the high street betting shop machinesWhen Paddy Power launched a modern advertising campaign with the tagline “You’re Welcome!” final year,its chief marketing officer told a trade magazine that “the Paddy Power brand has always been about two things – being as generous as we can with our customers, and behaving in a waggish way”. Thanks to a damning account of its failures on customer protection and crime prevention, and published by the Gambling Commission on Monday,we can now add a third: exploitation, of the most cynical and deliberate kind. Related: Paddy Power 'encouraged gambler until he lost his domestic, and jobs and family' Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com