Question

How do the manufacturers and traders exploit the consumers?

Answer 1

Trader and manufacturers exploit consumers in the following ways:

• Sale of adulterated goods, i.e. addition of inferior substances to the product being sold is one of the ways to exploit consumers in the market.
• Sale of sub-standard goods, i.e. sale of goods which do not confirm to prescribed quality standards.
• Use of false weights and measures leading to underweight.
• Supply of defective goods.
• Misleading advertisements, i.e. advertisements falsely claiming a product or service to be of superior quality, grade or standard.