Commentator: Zhang Li
When you are accustomed to measuring the price of goods by catties, the "assassin" will always use a small gram and two to give the wallet a fatal blow
In the past few days, some netizens complained about encountering a "pastry assassin", in a dim sum shop on Jianghan Road in Wuhan, they spent 681 yuan to buy 5 pieces of snowflake cake, which I thought was 12.8 yuan / catty, but it was actually 12.8 yuan / tael.
After investigation by the local market supervision office, it was found that the price of snowflake crisp was 12.8 yuan/50g, that is, 128 yuan per catty, and the clerk did not clearly remind and inform customers of the pricing method and the value of the goods. After the incident fermented, Wuhan Cultural Tourism replied on social platforms that the store was seized on suspicion of fraud.
According to the complaints of many tourists on social platforms, there is also a similar experience of being slaughtered in the brand: the door enthusiastically invites you to try it, the price tag display is dodgy, and the first cut is weighed and then weighed, and when the price is found to be very expensive, ordinary people can only bear to pay for the sake of face.
According to the "Opinions on Comprehensively Implementing the Legal Units of Measurement on the Mainland," the national legal units of measurement should be used for trade settlements, but there are no specific requirements for price tags, which has allowed some "assassins" to take advantage of loopholes.
In addition to the dim sum assassin, a couple of tourists also encountered flower assassins on the streets of Wuhan, and the flower seller said that she would give it away for free, while pulling away the girls and letting the boys pay secretly.
Not only sweets and flowers, but also souvenir shops in many city attractions, but also the "wild area" of "assassins". The "assassins" reported by the media include but are not limited to: cake cutting assassins, plum assassins, candy assassins, and fruit assassins......
"Assassinology" is often highly concealed and explosive, using various ways to disguise the price, and when you check out, you find out that it has been plotted ruthlessly. The main reasons are information asymmetry, unclear price labeling, and consumer cognitive differences.
For the management of merchants in popular attractions, the regulatory authorities should unify the price labels and stop the behavior of vaguely confusing the pricing units in a timely manner.
There is no harm if there is no buying and selling, consumers need to understand the "assassin science", learn to judge the price tag of the commodity, and learn to refuse decisively when facing the wallet assassin, turn gracefully, and completely rectify from the inside out.