{"id":139377,"date":"2023-12-31T17:52:39","date_gmt":"2024-01-01T00:52:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=139377"},"modified":"2023-12-31T17:53:01","modified_gmt":"2024-01-01T00:53:01","slug":"cheating-helpless-customers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2023\/12\/31\/cheating-helpless-customers\/","title":{"rendered":"Cheating helpless customers\u00a0at \u0d9c\u0dd9\u0daf\u0dbb \u0dba\u0db1 \u0d9c\u0db8\u0db1\u0dca"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><em>Dr Sarath Obeysekera<\/em><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>The famous supermarket on the way home \u0d9c\u0dd9\u0daf\u0dbb \u0dba\u0db1 \u0d9c\u0db8\u0db1\u0dca\u201d<br>Place Pelawatte Battaramulle mulls\u00a0<br>Time. 31 December 2023 at 12.15 pm\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Walked into The-supermarket to buy a pack of Iced Coffee to treat our \u00a0guests<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Price marked by either the manufacturer or the supermarket was 500 Rs against 240 last year\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Picked a few packs and the cashier scanned them and wanted to charge 650 each\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We lost out Cool\u201d despite we were buying iced coffee to cool ourselves under VAT pressure (A very Agonizing Time \u00a0)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Confronted the manager as the cashier was trying to justify the overcharge by stating that customers are warned by displaying notice boards everywhere to indicate that the price marked can change at any time!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Flabbergasted and \u00a0called the manager She was very firm and said that she could not sell at the rate marked on the product\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Little high pitched confrontation with her and we also threatened her that we would inform \u00a0( Con)Sumer affairs and she gave in and surrendered\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We were allowed to pay the marked price\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is the eve of the new year in a day and supermarkets are trying to train themselves like the last Relay runner before picking up the Batton called VAT ! During the last lap<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On the 1st &nbsp; the price may be 650 plus 18%! Hence we bought three&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The cow who donated milk may be thinking that from 1st January 2024, her grass will also cost + VAT\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Harry may have brewed extra gallons of liquor getting ready to Jack the price of Jack Daniel &#8211; local brand Gal Arrakku \u00a0to sell at a higher price\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Sarath Obeysekera The famous supermarket on the way home \u0d9c\u0dd9\u0daf\u0dbb \u0dba\u0db1 \u0d9c\u0db8\u0db1\u0dca\u201dPlace Pelawatte Battaramulle mulls\u00a0Time. 31 December 2023 at 12.15 pm\u00a0 Walked into The-supermarket to buy a pack of Iced Coffee to treat our \u00a0guests Price marked by either the manufacturer or the supermarket was 500 Rs against 240 last year\u00a0 Picked a few [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[116],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-139377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dr-sarath-obeysekera"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139377","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139377"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139377\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}