{"id":155562,"date":"2026-04-07T16:21:26","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T23:21:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=155562"},"modified":"2026-04-07T16:21:26","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T23:21:26","slug":"consumer-during-the-festive-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2026\/04\/07\/consumer-during-the-festive-season\/","title":{"rendered":"Consumer during the festive season"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sarath Wijesinghe PC<\/strong> Former Chair Consumer Affairs Authority<\/strong> Former Ambassador<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n

Consumer is bound to be exploited during the festive season by the trader manufacturer and industrialist whose motive is profit making and more business at any cost. Consumer always get a unreasonable deal as he is not organized and the Consumer Affairs Authority \u2013 the regulator who is expected to protect the consumer and regulate and regularize trade is inefficient and inactive whilst the consumer is suffering\u00a0 before giant trader who are responsible in selling outdated, food and consumer items at the highest prize especially by the guise of sale and massive mega exhibitions combined with large and small scale sale.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Consumer is one who buys a consumer item or a services for a consideration and expected to be powerful as a king as the business trader and economy depends on the consumer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Even the consumer is partially to be blamed for not organizing themselves and not becoming alert and smart consumers to ascertain when to buy, how to buy, where to buy and be smart and careful in dealing as the money spent is hard earned money belong to the family.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

CAA the powerful regulator<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Consumer Affairs Authority the – main regulator is solely responsible for the irregularities of the trader as it is the responsibility of the CAA to regulate trade and help the consumer. John Kennedy in 1960 said the consumes the most powerful and needed group who is neglected and not aware of his power. He initiated the world consumer day celebrated world over and has become a power with strong organizations such as WHICH in UK and Consumer International in USA and many other worlds over.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sorry State<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is a sorry state that the CAA which is the most powerful and main regulator is inactive and do not live up to expectations, and expected to organize consumer organizations. What we consume as food is poisonous sub slandered and it is the duty if CAA to have control over with the massive grants by the state and the large staff spread all over the country. Staff is well paid with lot of perks vehicles and facilities yet do not appear to be efficient to perform.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Solution<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The solution lies on the citizen all of whom are consumers to agitate the CAA to be more efficient and energetic especially during the festive season when the consumer-citizen is most exploited.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sararth Wijesinghe President\u2019s Counsel  0094766530166 whats app<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Sarath Wijesinghe PC Former Chair Consumer Affairs Authority Former Ambassador Consumer is bound to be exploited during the festive season by the trader manufacturer and industrialist whose motive is profit making and more business at any cost. Consumer always get a unreasonable deal as he is not organized and the Consumer Affairs Authority \u2013 the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[77],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-155562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sarath-wijesinghe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155562","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=155562"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155562\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":155563,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155562\/revisions\/155563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}