No consumer pressure on kitchen market
Thursday, 20 November 2008
It is hard to check tempers at kitchen markets. This is a place none can avoid going but we face tremendous mental pressure to see the prices moving up every week. Prices of everything, be it staples or vegetables -- is rising, and in most of the cases without any reason. Nothing, it seems, can bring the prices down.
Often many people sharply react to the unhealthy business practice in our kitchen market. They quarrel with the sellers who hardly listen to them. Surprisingly, none refuses to buy or buy less at unreasonable prices to create pressure on the sellers. It is totally a sellers' market. The consumers remain helpless. But the consumers forget that the buyers have the right to reject a product. If we buy less or reject an item, the sellers would think twice before raising the prices without any reason. Instead, people start buying more out of the fear that the price might increase further.
We actually do not consider the calorie level while buying kitchen items. Health conscious consumers would look for alternative products. But nobody can avoid buying onion, lintel, rice etc. They however can cut some items from the daily menu. Conscious buyers would know how to bring pressure on kitchen markets. The consumers association has an undeniable responsibility in this regard.
Rezaul Kabir
Karwan Bazar, Dhaka
Often many people sharply react to the unhealthy business practice in our kitchen market. They quarrel with the sellers who hardly listen to them. Surprisingly, none refuses to buy or buy less at unreasonable prices to create pressure on the sellers. It is totally a sellers' market. The consumers remain helpless. But the consumers forget that the buyers have the right to reject a product. If we buy less or reject an item, the sellers would think twice before raising the prices without any reason. Instead, people start buying more out of the fear that the price might increase further.
We actually do not consider the calorie level while buying kitchen items. Health conscious consumers would look for alternative products. But nobody can avoid buying onion, lintel, rice etc. They however can cut some items from the daily menu. Conscious buyers would know how to bring pressure on kitchen markets. The consumers association has an undeniable responsibility in this regard.
Rezaul Kabir
Karwan Bazar, Dhaka