what is the role of producers in protecting consumer rights????pls elaborate?

Question

its a consumer awareness project

Answer 1

Generally speaking, producers are not in the role of protecting consumer rights. It is collective action, which is the basis of all egalitarianism, which forces producers to acknowledge this issue.

Remember that with corporate structure, the role of the company is to maximize profit. If you look at the overall role of a Board of Directors, they oversee policy in the shareholders' interest. They select executives based on the percieved ability to generate profit, one way or another.

Consumer protection generally cuts into profit. The ideal consumerist state requires consuming on a regular basis, and from a single monopolistic source. This is the same, of course, as a dictatorship or absolute monarchy.

For example, look at the documented manipulation of nicotine in tobacco to drive addiction to cigarettes. Look at the documented purchase of metropolitan transit systems in the 1910's and afterward by groups funded by oil consortiums and auto manufacturers for the intent of shutting them down and selling more cars and more oil.

What balances this are two principles: one is that of competing domains of power, hence we have the National Transportation Safety Board, the FDA, the ATF, and a host of other agencies both national and statewide to regulate businesses. The second is egalitarianism: when things get too hectic the people themselves revolt and things can get pretty ugly (Reign of Terror in France ring a bell?). Because no institution wants to see itself either regulated out of existance or dismantled by popular will, most limit themselves to manipulations which are not visible enough to draw the public's or the governments' ire. In other words, it is interest in survival which persuades producers to protect consumer rights. But it is coersion which does this.

Answer 2

The role of producers is to maximize profits. That's it. Everything that a producer does, it does to maximize profits.

In order to maximize profits, the producer must entice the maximum number of consumers to purchase the product. These enticements include the quality of the product, itself, as well as advertising for the product and public relations for the producer as a company.

When consumers decide that they have "rights" that go beyond the right to refrain from purchasing the product, then a producer may decide to cater to this illusion in order to, again, entice the maximum number of consumers to purchase the product. Such rights might include the right to return a product, etc.

Answer 3

Depends on how you define "consumers rights". If something is indeed a right, than everyone in society should be involved in protection.

Since rights are defined by the law, I'd suggest you do a bit of research on exactly what the law says. Good research mades good projects, not asking on yahoo answeres.