Defective scales are in bountiful use at these markets

Aug 19, 2013 Letters

Dear Editor,
The Region # 2 Administration cannot be exonerated from blame for shirking its responsibility to enforce the law to protect residents there from unscrupulous vendors by “ripping them off” in short weight especially in the meat section of the markets in the district.
But while such a situation is bad for purchasers, it is worse still to have full time employees in a special office within Anna Regina who are supposed to look into scales, weights, measurements, etc., just relaxing instead of making regular visits at the markets to curb the anomaly.
Until such time as these errant vendors are placed before the court to serve as a deterrent despite of how paltry the monetary penalty may be, the presumptuous cheating will continue much to the detriment of purchasers.
Just a few days ago at the Suddie market in my home village, I enquired from a vendor who sells pork, chicken, and chicken foot the price for the latter to which she replied $300.00 (three hundred dollars) per pound.
After placing an order for two pounds, two sealed parcels were handed to me with an explanation from the vendor that each contained one pound with me having to pay $600.00 (six hundred dollars), which I was prepared to do.
From my own experience, the weight struck me to be less and when a reweighing was done in her presence on the scale of a nearby businessman, the two parcels had only one and a half pounds.
My interest to make the purchase completely vanished.
Before my observation in the matter which was reported at the Suddie Police station, and the vendor questioned, it could well be that other purchasers unknowingly accepted the same 12 ounces packet for a pound with her making an extra 25 pounds on the sale of every 100 pounds to earn an additional profit of $7,500.00 (seven thousand five hundred dollars) through sheer exploitation.
It is very much unfair to pay the price asked for and in the end to get short weight.
Defective scales are in bountiful use at these markets and no one in authority seems to care.
To this day, some vendors are selling at 400 grams per pound when in fact it has to be 450 grams, with customers losing all the time.
Baliram Persaud

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