Honesty…

The other day, I was walking past a shop and I saw that they had some very nice bananas for sale, so I bought some…

Then, somebody told me that the shop would usually charge more than elsewhere. To me, I am not normally bothered about such things. They tell me their price and I have the prerogative whether to buy or not. After all, I do not see the point in driving elsewhere to buy at a price that is not really that much lower – considering the petrol, the parking fee and all.

However, I was also told that they cut the bananas different from other places. They would usually leave a chunk of the stump that would add to the weight of the bananas. I never noticed that but when I went home, I decided to check that out and true enough, it was exactly as what I had heard…

That, I would consider as being dishonest – tantamount to a blatant attempt at cheating the customers…like in the past, before the days of plastic, where the shopkeepers would use their own-made paper bags and they would have layers and layers of the thick brown paper so that when they use them, that would add to the weight and they would be able to make more out of the customers.

I am not a wise consumer…but I guess I should be more wary from now on about such things when I go shopping so that I would not be robbed right under my very nose in broad daylight without the slightest inkling as to what is going on.