The Spring Festival is coming, and there will be another consumption peak at this time of year. Recently, law enforcement departments in many places have carried out special rectification actions from the perspective of combating weight shortage and safeguarding consumers' rights and interests. Packaging weighing, seafood repacking... How should consumers deal with these usual tricks? How to create an honest business environment?
people in many places report that businesses are "short of weight"
On January 16, people in Xi'an, Shaanxi complained that "there is a problem of weight shortage in the sales of vegetables and fruits in Zhongtian Jinting community".
Xi'an Xincheng District market supervision and Administration Bureau organized law enforcement personnel to conduct on-site investigation and found that three of the six electronic scales were unqualified. Shaanxi qianmeihe Catering Management Co., Ltd. was ordered to compensate the economic losses caused by the masses, confiscate measuring instruments and illegal income, impose a penalty of 20000 yuan, and circulate a notice in the whole region.
In Jinan, Shandong Province, in order to prevent leakage of seafood products after bagging, a kind of black thick plastic bag has been popular in various seafood markets for a long time. Although this kind of plastic bag is strong, the heavy plastic bag is weighed and sold together with seafood, and it is still consumers who suffer in the end.
Ms. Fu, a citizen, said that even if I found a problem, there was no good way. "I prefer to eat seafood and buy more. I found that when the boss took out the seafood, it was wet. There was a lot of water on it. This water also counted the price of seafood. I don't think it is reasonable."
white light plastic bag replaces black thick plastic bag
good load bearing, degradable and recyclable
The seafood market located in Jianshe Road, Jinan, Shandong Province is the largest seafood market in the region. During the interview, the reporter saw that the black thick plastic bags had disappeared from the market before and were replaced by white transparent thin plastic bags.
At the scene, the staff of Jinan seafood market made a comparison with the market equity scale. The weight difference between the two is not small. "It is mainly aimed at solving the integrity problems often encountered by some consumers before, such as filling water in thick bags and black bags."
Xie Jun, assistant general manager of Jinan seafood market, said that their preliminary research found that some black plastic bags weighed 60 grams, while the newly replaced white plastic bags were divided into three categories: large, medium and small, and the largest one weighed less than 20 grams. This transparent and light plastic bag is uniformly launched and customized by the market. It will comprehensively replace the heavy plastic bags popular in the market in the past. It is close to the new year, so that citizens will have no worries when buying seafood new year goods.
Xie Jun told reporters that the plastic bag they finally selected is not only transparent and light, convenient to carry, good load-bearing, but also degradable and recyclable . In addition, the plastic bag is also marked with the telephone number of the management department of the seafood market. In case of consumption disputes, consumers can call the management department or complain at the market rights protection station.
using packaging materials as product weight infringes upon the rights and interests of consumers
if you find that you are short of weight, you should protect your rights in time
According to Tang Jiansheng, Deputy Secretary General of Shanghai Consumer Protection Commission, it has been a long time for packaging materials to serve as the weight of products. "We have done relevant tests. The weight difference between the heaviest bag and the lightest bag in the farmers' market will be more than 10 times , but this bag is sold to consumers according to the price of goods, which is obviously unfair."
In this case, Tang Jiansheng believes that two things need to be done:
First, there has been a lack of weight and shortness in packaging to pretend to be the net weight of products for many years. This is an obvious violation of the legitimate rights and interests of consumers. The law has clear provisions on how to punish and compensate, which should be implemented in place.
Second, if consumers find that they are short of weight, they should complain and protect their rights in time. If everyone ignores it, it will encourage bad businesses to do some bad things based on the impulse of profit.
