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The May Day Golden Tourism Week is coming, the popularity of various tourist attractions is also getting stronger and stronger, and at the same time, the high-speed service area is an important transit station in the process of tourism, and it is also a place for tourists to rest and eat.
However, recently, a cake cutting shop in the service area of Inner Mongolia Expressway caused an uproar because of a sky-high price cake cutting incident.
A local man bought a pound and a half of cut cakes in the store, but the merchant asked him to pay a price of 12,000 yuan, which made the man very angry.
And as this video circulated on the Internet, it sparked heated discussions among netizens, and at the same time, many people were indignant about what happened to the man.
So what's going on with this business?
Why is the price so strange?
And how did the man cope?
1. $12,000 cake cut.
On April 15 this year, a thin middle-aged man was entangled with the owner of a cake cutting shop in a high-speed service area in Hohhot, Inner Mongolia.
The man looked flushed with anger, while the owner of the pastry shop looked at the man with disdain, and the atmosphere between the two was extremely tense.
A local onlooker quickly picked up his phone to film the scene, and the video went viral.
In the video, it can be seen that the man said to the boss very angrily: "I buy a pound of half-cut cake, how can you ask for 12,000 yuan?"
And the owner of the cake-cutting shop responded with disdain: "You see that my shop is written everywhere 'on catties by grams', the price is 8,000 yuan per gram, and you want 1 catty and a half cut cake, which is 12,000 yuan, if you don't buy it, return the cut cake to me, otherwise I will cut it with a knife!"
After hearing this, the man couldn't help but be even more angry, and he responded viciously: "Hmph, aren't you a cheater, I want 8,000 yuan for a pound and a half, but you want 12,000 yuan now, you might as well go and rob it directly!"
As the man's voice grew louder, more and more people in the neighborhood expressed their strong dissatisfaction with the cake shop, believing that the price of the cake shop was outrageous.
And this man is not unreasonable, he does have a piece of paper in his hand, which reads "Cut cake - on catties by grams, 8,000 yuan / gram", and some other words, which makes this matter even more confusing.
With the release of this video, it quickly set off a hot topic on the Internet.
Many netizens were indignant at what happened to the man, thinking that the man was indeed cheated by this cake cutting shop, and asking him to pay 12,000 yuan was really sky-high.
And many netizens think that the man himself is also wrong, because after all, this cake cutting shop does indicate the price, and the man did buy 1 pound and a half cut cake, so from this point of view, the merchant is not wrong.
Second, 8,000 pounds per gram.
Later, someone found a frontal photo of this piece of paper, which read: "Cut the cake, and count the gram."
Price: 8,000 yuan per gram.
Regular: 8,000 pieces of cake for one catty, 4,000 pieces for half a catty of cake, the same in pairs. ”
On the front of the paper is the price information, while on the reverse side is the words: "Cut the cake, on the pound by the gram."
The cut cake of this shop, 1 catty is 8000 yuan, 1 tael is 4000 yuan, 1 money is 2000 yuan, 1 cent is 200 yuan, 1 centimeter is 20 yuan, 1 millimeter is 2 yuan, all this price, don't be too expensive, this is our price, buy what you do, buy if you like, don't buy you go away, don't take up space!"
In this way, the paper becomes even more confusing, because both sides are talking about this paper, so many people don't know who is right and who is wrong.
The owner of the pastry shop said in an interview: "I designed this price tag myself.
At that time, when I was setting up a stall here, someone wanted to buy cut cakes, so I took a pound of cut cakes out and showed him, and then he asked how much one or two cut cakes cost, and I said 4,000 yuan.
But then I encountered an incident, someone came to buy cut cakes, I took a cut cake or two out to show him, but he said that the price was too expensive, one or two for 4,000 yuan, too expensive, then someone on the side said: 'Your price is too high, your cut cake looks like a maximum of 1,000 yuan, how can you say 4,000 yuan?'
This made me very angry, so I wrote this price tag, and I thought that as long as I felt that the price was right, you could buy it, and if you didn't buy it, don't buy it.
The owner of this pastry shop continued: "I have always placed this price tag on the cash register, because this tag is too big, so it is difficult to put it in other places, so everyone who buys the cake can see this price tag, but I don't put any price tag elsewhere, so I think even if the person who buys the cake cutter does not see the price tag, he will not think that the price of my cake is 12,000 yuan a catty and a half." ”
The owner of this cake cutting shop also continued: "And when this man bought the cut cake, I was also next to the cash register, he must have been able to see this price tag, because this man wants to buy a pound and a half cut cake, so the price is 12,000 yuan, but he now regrets it, so I said that I want to return the cut cake to me, otherwise I will cut it into two parts, one catty and half a catty." ”
3. Netizens hotly discussed and called for local intervention.
After hearing this, the man was even more angry and wanted to explode, and he said to the owner of the cake-cutting shop: "Aren't you a cheater, I want 8,000 yuan for a pound and a half, but you want 12,000 yuan now, you might as well go and rob it directly!"
Hurry up and give me the cake, I don't want to spend 12,000 yuan to buy the cake, you are robbing money!"
After the man said this, he immediately turned around and prepared to leave, and his friend also said to him: "You might as well leave, after all, there are so many people watching, and you will not end well if you continue to make trouble." ”
After listening to his friend's words, the man also eased his mood a little, and he said to his friend: "Okay, then let's go, I don't want to stay here any longer, let's go home quickly."
The owner of the cake shop said to the man, "If you don't buy it, give it back to me, or I'll cut it!"
The man said to the owner of the cake shop: "Okay, let's wait and see you cut the cake, and then you will also be responsible for the police!"
After the man finished speaking, he raised his mobile phone and took a picture of the pastry shop.
The owner of the cake shop said to the man, "You can't make videos, you can't shoot videos!"
The man responded: "Why can't I shoot a video, you give me an explanation!"
The shopkeeper said to the man: "You can't shoot videos, it's illegal for you to shoot videos!"
And the man responded: "You say it's illegal to shoot a video?
Then you come up with the evidence!"
The video ended when the man's friend persuaded him to turn away.
After this video was exposed, it also sparked heated discussions from all walks of life, with some netizens thinking: "The price of this cake cutting shop is too sky-high, which is really unfriendly to tourists, so we call on the local cultural and tourism department and the public security organ to intervene in the investigation of this matter, and ask this cake cutting shop to give tourists a reasonable explanation." ”
Other netizens believed: "The owner of this cake cutting shop is not wrong, she is indeed priced by the gram, and this man also bought a pound and a half of cut cakes, in this case, the price is 12,000 yuan, so this man's approach is undoubtedly unreasonable."
Fourth, the reasonableness of the pricing of the service area.
This incident has also aroused people's attention to the price pricing in the service area, many netizens have said: "The price pricing in the service area is not very transparent, many prices are very expensive, which is indeed an unfriendly performance for tourists, we call on the relevant departments to standardize the price pricing in the service area, requiring it to be reasonable and legal, not arbitrary." ”
And many netizens think: "The things in the service area are originally a convenient thing, and the price will be more expensive, so this is not a big problem, as long as the price is not expected to be ridiculously high." ”
This matter is indeed very worth discussing, but as a service-oriented enterprise, merchants do have the right to set their own prices, as long as they do not violate laws and regulations, then there is nothing to blame.
As a consumer, you should also have your own consumption rules, and when you encounter an unreasonable price, you may wish to take some photos or videos as evidence, so that you can better protect your rights and interests.
5. Conclusion
This incident did leave people with great doubts, but the heated discussion on the Internet and the spread of this video have played a very good role in protecting consumers' rights, and at the same time remind merchants to strictly abide by price labeling and consumption rules to avoid similar incidents from happening again.
And this man's approach is also worthy of recognition, he uses the video as his evidence, which can not only protect his rights and interests to a certain extent, but also remind merchants to pay attention to their behavior and not violate the law and discipline.
The man's friend was also very calm and reasonable, and he kept persuading the man to turn around and leave, so that there would be no long-term impact on the pastry shop, and this behavior was also very worth learning.