Don't fish in murky waters

Don't fish in murky waters

From Warta Ekonomi

The economic crisis has caused prices of staple foods to skyrocket. It is regrettable that in this difficult situation certain merchants have resorted to something that has greatly affected consumers' emotions.

In one supermarket, for example, purchases of goods are restricted. One shopper is allowed to buy a maximum of 3 bars of bath soap, 6 packets of instant noodles, three tubes of toothpaste and so forth.

After reading the notice on this purchase limitation, consumers will feel greater panic. They will try to purchase as many goods as possible and ask their friends or members of their family to buy the goods in any way, as long as the stipulation on limited purchases is fulfilled.

This leads me to suspect that shopkeepers have intentionally put up the limited-purchase notice as a trick to create panic buying among consumers. Overwhelmed by panic and by a fear that supplies will run out, consumers will be all to ready to engage themselves in a race to buy all the goods available, no matter how unreasonably high the prices have become.

Traders must not intentionally fish in murky waters. Don't engage in delinquent acts which may disadvantage consumers and create panic among the public.

CB UTOMO

Tangerang, West Java