Asher quoted the verses in the Torah about honest scales and said we are obligated to give the consumer the tools to shop wisely and have the information necessary to decide whether to purchase something or not and to know how much he will pay.
The law proposal passed its initial voting in the Ministerial Legislative Committee and in the Knesset and will not be prepared for final voting to pass it into law.
source: Kikar
good law, in my opinion
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I don't know if it is a good law or not. But scales in the veggie section is one of the very few things I miss about America.
ReplyDeleteSome stores put the weight and final price on a label for everything sold by weight (usually only for meat...never seen that for produce). I think that's a better idea.
ReplyDeleteOsher Ad does that for spices and other loose items they sell at the spice kiosk (nuts, mostly). It doesn't work for items you select and bag yourself. For produce, the receipt will have that information.
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