Continue debate about deceptive packaging in the trade
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In the debate about deceptive packaging, the Salzburg Chamber of Labor is demanding that the manufacturer must in future be called upon to indicate when the product size changes – and thus often the price as well. It gets higher, which customers are apparently not supposed to notice. The savings group emphasizes that such events are rare. You are against it yourself.
Less content in food for the price – that’s what you get with a well-known margarine brand, for example. It even mutated into the deceptive package of the previous year. The retail group Spar, headquartered in Salzburg, emphasized at the request of the ORF that shrunken products would only rarely appear on the shelves.
Spar: “We don’t like it”
Group spokeswoman Nicole Berkmann says that suppliers confront you with ideas like this from time to time: “We discuss a lot with them that we don’t want it and that we don’t like it. It is ultimately up to the manufacturer to decide whether they want to do it this way. But it doesn’t happen as often as you might think with all this reporting.”
AK recommends checking the basic prices carefully
In any case, consumer advocates from the Chamber of Labor advise to always pay attention to the basic prices of the products when shopping. Dealers are legally obliged to also indicate the price per kilogram or litre.