Price rise and gimmick packaging
It is also common tactics to pack commodities like soap-cakes and tooth-paste etc in weights like 75 or 80 gms in place of uniform 100 gms because consumers judge price per pack overlooking weight of commodity.
THIS IS with reference to the news about biscuit-manufacturers deciding to reduce pack-sizes of biscuits to non-standard ones like 82.5 gms by retaining per-pack price same which was earlier for 100 gms.
Even after five long decades after the introduction of metric-system in India, it is shocking that manufacturers and traders are still at liberty to pack items in dozens and gross instead of multiples of tens. The Union government should immediately issue orders to take packaging other than in multiples of tens as an offence to make manufacturers and traders compulsorily to do away with the age-old non-metric system of packaging.
With cost of ingredients having fast risen, price-rise of biscuits was unavoidable. But it is not correct to ‘cheat’ consumers by gimmick packaging of lower non-standard packs like 82.5 gms. Similar strategy was earlier adopted by manufacturers of cough-lozenges when number of lozenges per strip was reduced to eight in place of the normal ten by retaining price per-strip the same. It is also common tactics to pack commodities like soap-cakes and tooth-paste etc in weights like 75 or 80 gms in place of uniform 100 gms because consumers judge price per pack overlooking weight of commodity.
All commodities to be packed by weight or volume should be only in units 1, 2, 10, 20, 50, 100, 200 or 500 gms or mltrs, and then in 1, 2, 5 or multiples of 5 kgs or litres only. Such a system will avoid need to print ‘Unit Price’ which at many times is misused by retailer for excessive overcharge by putting sticker on ‘Maximum Retail Price’. The best option is to extend ‘Right To Information Act’ to private sector.
All commodities to be packed by weight or volume should be only in units 1, 2, 10, 20, 50, 100, 200 or 500 gms or mltrs, and then in 1, 2, 5 or multiples of 5 kgs or litres only. Such a system will avoid need to print ‘Unit Price’ which at many times is misused by retailer for excessive overcharge by putting sticker on ‘Maximum Retail Price’. The best option is to extend ‘Right To Information Act’ to private sector.
Even after five long decades after the introduction of metric-system in India, it is shocking that manufacturers and traders are still at liberty to pack items in dozens and gross instead of multiples of tens. The Union government should immediately issue orders to take packaging other than in multiples of tens as an offence to make manufacturers and traders compulsorily to do away with the age-old non-metric system of packaging.
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