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In the past, you could buy things without having to trawl through previous customers' reviews. Now, it seems, just about everything is reviewed and sellers kind of expect it. In fact many businesses send out customer surveys straight after a sale has been made. For at least twenty five years I had no idea how much I weighed - quite simply because I never weighed myself. We had an old mechanical set of scales in our bathroom but I never stood on them until very recently when I began having weight loss reduction injections. Some might say that previously I was "in denial". Maybe I was. The old scales were a wedding present forty four years ago and it had become hard to read the little plastic dial behind a now clouded, slightly yellowing plastic window. Wanting to track my gradual weight loss pretty accurately, I decided to treat ourselves to a new set of scales. In 1981 there were no digital scales on the market but now in 2025 most available scales are digital and...