What is the need for Consumer Awareness?

Answer 1

Consumer awareness is necessary for ensuring that you get your money's worth. To ensure the quality of products. To prevent adulteration. To ensure hygiene in products. To prevent exploitation by under weighing the products, by artificial scarcity etc.

Answer 2

Consumer Awareness helps the trade to be vigilant of spurious products in the market, stops the tall claims some products are supposed to do in the adverts, gives clear choice to the consumer in terms of price, quality, quantity and the total value of a product. Be aware and be consumer aware.

Answer 3

$ Because they have the responsibility on making financial decisions on purchasing goods & services.
$ Someone who is not informed can often lose money, service completion, their home, or even their life in some extreme cases. The Lemon Law and other consumer laws were enacted to protect us.
$ Being an informed consumer forces the purveyors of goods & services to make good on their promises and claims, hence providing value-added goods & services.
$ So that they would become educated consumers and be able to trade in safety.
$ To be aware that they have legal recourse if they are not treated fairly or discriminated against because of sex, race, marital status, disability to qualify for bank accounts, loans, credit card, mortgages and other financial services.
$ To be aware of fair practices in purchasing goods and services.
$ To guard againt scams and pressure tactics.

Answer 4

Yes its time to brush up our consumer right. Consumer is considered to be the King of the Market but when it comes to consumer’s protection it is Vice versa and we consumers are made to stake at mind. Consumer awareness is actually the need of the hour. With the increasingly large number of new products springing up in the market there is need to educate the community. Consumer Awareness program focuses on breaking the barriers of Consumer ignorance. Every Monday listeners are tuned to 90.4 ANNA FM with the community jointly with the Consumer Association of India & Citizen Consumer Civic action group.

Mr. Ghana Desikan (Trustee), Consumer Association of India and his team Mr. Ranaganath and Mrs. Bharathi Kumaran have given us many power tools on consumer awareness. As we get back to many of our Limelight programs on Anna FM has triggered issues like – Bankers Impose unethical interest rates on Credit Card Holders, Housing loans, Mobile Mania on Consumer Billing, Issues on pre-paid and post paid Connections, Food Adulteration, Medicine and health policy issues etc. Apart from mere examinations they also come up with interesting Case Studies of successful stories where consumers actively participated in major consumer issues and rewards obtained for the appeal before the court of law adds more spice to the listeners.

‘Together We Achieve’ would be the right proverb for our social activist Mrs. Shoba Iyer – Coordinator, Citizen Consumer Civic Action Group. An active participant for Consumer rights, she is yet another important person in our studio, who regularly voices out and made an impact on why consumers have to be educated. Legal Tips are also given to our listeners and feedback act as catalyst to Fight for Right. It’s, if not you, who will are the Challenges put to our listeners.

Answer 5

in order to move and create your product in the mindset of people in a positive and healthier way...

Answer 6

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