Ghost Scale Incident: From "Ghost Scale" to "The More Expensive Fish", Reflect on Consumer Rights and Social Integrity
Preface
Recently, a topic called the "Ghost Scale Incident" has been hotly discussed on the Internet. It is reported that the source of this incident is actually a seafood market, and the merchants in the market have been exposed by many consumers and bloggers because of the use of "ghost scales".
The so-called "ghost scale" actually refers to the electronic scales used by merchants when selling goods, and these merchants control the electronic scale program, so that the weight of the weighing has a certain deviation, and finally achieves the purpose of "profiteering".
Once consumers use such a "ghost scale" when buying goods, then they are likely to suffer certain economic losses because of this, which is why this "ghost scale incident" once exposed, it immediately attracted everyone's attention and extensive discussion.
The beginning and end of the event
The incident came to light
In fact, the reason why this "ghost scale incident" was exposed started with a team of bloggers called "Hurricane Brothers". It is understood that at that time, this blogger team was actually conducting a so-called "live streaming" activity in the seafood market, and in the process of the event, they unexpectedly found that some merchants were using "ghost scales" to cheat.
Faced with such a situation, the blogger team naturally couldn't sit idly by, so they immediately filmed such a situation and uploaded it to their social platforms, hoping to remind more consumers.
Merchant reactions
However, perhaps because they were afraid that things would get bigger, or perhaps because their own interests were threatened, these businesses actually chose to surround the blogger team after learning of the blogger team's actions, and also tried to destroy the evidence they filmed.
However, perhaps because the popularity of this blogger team is not low, what they did was soon discovered by other passers-by, and for a while, more and more people also joined in this "onlooker", and the merchants also felt a certain amount of pressure.
Market Processing
Perhaps because they realized that their behavior had been exposed, these merchants immediately chose to "admit their mistakes" and "correct" their behavior, and the seafood market where they were located also took this opportunity to play a slogan such as "civilized and honest management, refuse to 'ghost scales'".
After this series of incidents, the local municipal supervision bureau and the public security department also attached great importance to this, they not only intervened in the relevant investigation, but also dealt with the relevant responsible persons, including those involved in the "ghost scale" cheating.
The results reverberate
Thanks to the exposure of the "Hurricane Brothers", in the end, these merchants who used "ghost scales" to cheat were all punished as they deserved, and one of them was a female trader, who was directly removed from the market because of her behavior.
After this series of events, the seafood market where this is located has become a "mecca for Internet celebrity check-ins", attracting more and more people to come to "check in", and everyone's purpose is not to buy seafood, but to see with their own eyes how these businesses are exposed.
Event thinking
Consumer Rights
I believe that through this "ghost scale incident", everyone has a deeper understanding of the word "ghost scale", and more importantly, we should also reflect on some issues from it.
First of all, no matter which case, we should protect our legitimate rights and interests, once we find out that the merchant's cheating behavior, we should not choose to "turn a blind eye", but should take the initiative to protect our rights, and we can also expose such a situation in a timely manner like "Hurricane Brothers".
Social integrity
Secondly, we should also realize that integrity is very important at all times, and this is not only in the daily life of individuals, but also in the conduct of businesses.
Only when every business can choose "civilized and honest management", can we contribute to the harmonious development of the whole society, and in this process, we also need to have a more perfect regulatory system to protect the legitimate rights and interests of consumers.
Supervision by public opinion
Finally, I want to say that this "ghost scale incident" once again proves the importance of public opinion supervision, if there is no timely exposure of the "Hurricane Brothers", if there are no more and more people to join this "onlookers", maybe the cheating of these businesses will not be discovered.
Therefore, we should also observe and think more about the things around us in our daily life, and dare to stand up once we find some illegal acts, so as to give timely public opinion supervision.
epilogue
Finally, I also hope that through such an article, more people can pay attention to the "ghost scale incident", and also get some inspiration and reflection from it, whether it is to protect their legitimate rights and interests, or in the face of various different things, they can have their own independent thinking, and they can also bravely fight for their own views and beliefs.