Question

List down the problems faced by the consumers

Answer 1

Instructions: Mention the sources like adulteration, increase in costs, fraud measures.

Solution:
Some of the problems faced by the consumers are

• Adulteration

Adulteration is an illegal practice of adding poor ingredients to a product that lessens the quality of the original product. Usually, adulteration is done to cheat customers by selling them inferior quality products at a high price.

• Increased cost of items, like selling products at more than MRP or marked price
• Frauds in weight and measures

Frauds are committed by adding weight to the scale or tampering with the measures of the scales so that the customers can be fooled by selling them less quantity of product at the original price.