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Two AM reporters and officials of Weights & Measurements Dept checked five Amdavadis’ bags and discovered they were cheated by their vegetable vendors. Are YOU a daily victim as well?
By Yogesh Avasthi and Dhwani Pathak
Posted On Wednesday, May 20, 2009
Seldom do we argue with our subziwalla. However, we do suspect at times that we get less than what we pay for. No pun intended, but scales are always tilted in favour of vegetable vendors. Are we always short-changed by our vegetable and fruit vendors ? AM conducted a test drive last Saturday and Tuesday, in association with the Weights & Measurements Department (Legal Metrology Department). Earlier, an alert AM reader, Alpa Biju, had called in to inform that cheating was rampant at Vastrapur vegetable market.
We targeted the Vastrapur market and the famous Dilli Darwaza market for our test drive. Every bag that we checked revealed a sorry picture. In the bags that we checked, we discovered that vegetables and fruit were at least 100 gm less than what the buyer had asked for.
In one case, the buyer had purchased mangoes supposed to weigh two kg. He got 200 gm less than what he paid for. Now, just imagine the killing vendors make by giving around 100 gm less to every customer that does business with them !
(Ahmedabad Mirror : http://www.ahmedabadmirror.com/index.aspx?Page=article§name=News%20-%20Latest§id=2&contentid=2009052020090520033832213844ed368)
By Yogesh Avasthi and Dhwani Pathak
Posted On Wednesday, May 20, 2009
Seldom do we argue with our subziwalla. However, we do suspect at times that we get less than what we pay for. No pun intended, but scales are always tilted in favour of vegetable vendors. Are we always short-changed by our vegetable and fruit vendors ? AM conducted a test drive last Saturday and Tuesday, in association with the Weights & Measurements Department (Legal Metrology Department). Earlier, an alert AM reader, Alpa Biju, had called in to inform that cheating was rampant at Vastrapur vegetable market.
We targeted the Vastrapur market and the famous Dilli Darwaza market for our test drive. Every bag that we checked revealed a sorry picture. In the bags that we checked, we discovered that vegetables and fruit were at least 100 gm less than what the buyer had asked for.
In one case, the buyer had purchased mangoes supposed to weigh two kg. He got 200 gm less than what he paid for. Now, just imagine the killing vendors make by giving around 100 gm less to every customer that does business with them !
(Ahmedabad Mirror : http://www.ahmedabadmirror.com/index.aspx?Page=article§name=News%20-%20Latest§id=2&contentid=2009052020090520033832213844ed368)
