{"id":139580,"date":"2024-01-09T16:44:08","date_gmt":"2024-01-09T23:44:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=139580"},"modified":"2024-01-09T16:44:08","modified_gmt":"2024-01-09T23:44:08","slug":"super-not-so-super-markets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2024\/01\/09\/super-not-so-super-markets\/","title":{"rendered":"Super ( Not so super ) markets\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Dr Sarath Obeysekera<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>\u00a0A few weeks back jugglery committed by a supermarket with the slogan \u0d9c\u0dd9\u0daf\u0dbb \u0dba\u0db1 \u0d9c\u0db8\u0db1\u0dca was exposed\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00a0Supermarket was scrupulously charging higher prices at the cashier than the price marked on the product claiming that notices are placed everywhere that prices can be changed any time<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00a0A few days back another supermarket along the same road owned by a Foreign entity that boasts that you can  spar (e) money for something else did the same thing\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00a0Today they charged for four loaves of bread when the purchased quantity was two\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Of course, cashier makes mistakes according to management \ud83e\udd71\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>People should help local groceries by \u00a0buying locally and boycotting supermarkets<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Regards<br><br>Dr Sarath Obeysekera<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Sarath Obeysekera \u00a0A few weeks back jugglery committed by a supermarket with the slogan \u0d9c\u0dd9\u0daf\u0dbb \u0dba\u0db1 \u0d9c\u0db8\u0db1\u0dca was exposed\u00a0 \u00a0Supermarket was scrupulously charging higher prices at the cashier than the price marked on the product claiming that notices are placed everywhere that prices can be changed any time \u00a0A few days back another supermarket [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[118],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-139580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corruption-and-bribery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139580","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=139580"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139580\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}