ThE Lagos State Authorities has suggested residents of the state to train warning as they embark on end-of-the-year purchases of products as a lot of such might be expired or about-to-expire merchandise.
The Normal Supervisor of the Lagos State Client Safety Company, Afolabi Solebo, based on an announcement on Tuesday, gave this recommendation throughout a media parley in Ikeja.
Solebo added the company, by means of its Monitoring and Enforcement Unit, had noticed that some producers, wholesalers, and retailers often disguise underneath the guise of clearance gross sales to push substandard merchandise to shoppers.
He stated, “My enchantment to the consuming public is to keep away from shopping for items in a rush or buying gadgets which can be bought beneath the suitable market worth. Customers must be conscious that that is the interval that sellers will probably be pushing out expired or about-to-expire items to promote to unsuspecting members of the general public.
“Customers must be extra vigilant as they make their shopping for choices by analyzing the merchandise’ data earlier than making fee. On our half, we’ll proceed to enlighten the general public to keep away from hazardous merchandise and we will probably be looking out to sanction anybody discovered culpable.
“We’ve succeeded in placing smiles on individuals’s faces and established the truth that shoppers are kings and that they should be pretty handled in each transaction and other than this, the extent of consciousness of shoppers’ rights is now increased than what it was once.”
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