{"id":36786,"date":"2015-07-05T00:48:39","date_gmt":"2015-07-05T00:48:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vskills.in\/certification\/blog\/?p=36786"},"modified":"2024-04-03T13:18:52","modified_gmt":"2024-04-03T07:48:52","slug":"is-your-cola-worth-its-price","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vskills.in\/certification\/blog\/is-your-cola-worth-its-price\/","title":{"rendered":"Is your cola worth its price?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a ref=\"magnificPopup\" href=\"http:\/\/vskills.in\/certification\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Is-your-cola-worth-its-price.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-36902\" src=\"http:\/\/vskills.in\/certification\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Is-your-cola-worth-its-price.jpg\" alt=\"Is your cola worth its price\" width=\"274\" height=\"184\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>All of us have paid more for soft-drinks or processed food at a station or an airport or in a mall. Nowadays enforced profits are squeezed out of consumers under the pretext of security due to which one is not allowed to carry anything to malls, amusement parks etc. This happens all the while!<\/p>\n<p>MRP is by no means an unfamiliar term even to a consumer who is just about average in awareness.MRP of a product is the maximum price at which a product manufactured by a company can be retailed. It is inclusive of all taxes and profit-margins of wholesalers and retailers for a packaged commodity.<\/p>\n<p><em>For e.g. Coca-cola bottles have an MRP of Rs 30 and thereby it is illegal to sell them more than that. This price includes any taxes which are levied. Instead of all that, we still have had to pay extra 5 or 10 rupees for a bottle of cola for \u201cextra services\u201d provided to us by a certain hotel we went to.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>MRP, as we all know it, is unique to our country. India is possibly among a handful of countries where MRP is still in vogue. Although it guards a consumer from being duped by deciding the maximum price, but somewhere down the down the line this system has also its adverse effects.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>For instance: Each state has their own set of taxes and rates for the same product. If Delhi charges a tax rate of 10% on a certain pack of chocolates whereas UP charges 30%\u00a0 tax for the same, economic intuition is that people of Delhi will pay less for it while people of UP will pay more. But they don\u2019t because the manufacturer has set an MRP based on UP\u2019s tax rate of 30%.When a retailer has MRP printed on a product, he almost certainly charges MRP even if it costs him less. Of course you can buy the product for lesser amount of money. But this generally\u00a0doesn&#8217;t\u00a0happen\u00a0when you buy packaged goods, say a packet of chips or cookies.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Important point being overlooked is that MRP is not decided by Government. It is fixed by the original manufacturer. There is minimal governmental role in fixing the MRP of a product apart from the initial guidelines and legislations. Even constant monitoring is absent.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>So if tomorrow a random brand, say G.O.T. \u00a0comes up with a new glamour shirt priced 180000 (I know it\u2019s absurd!) for whatever reason, you obviously have the option of not buying it but you cannot sue the brand \u00a0for having decided such a price!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Point being, the law is just to print price on everything being sold to keep up transparency but doesn&#8217;t really control what price must be printed!<\/p>\n<p>If consumer spending falls, the probability of the economy slipping back into recession becomes very high!True price adopted for a service is crucial to the functioning of a healthy economy.In the light of all this there is nothing you can do except pay inflated price or refuse purchase! (Except filing a complaint against a person for selling something more than its MRP, but seldom does that happen!).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vskills.in\/certification\/accounting-banking-and-finance\">Click here for government certification in Accounting, Banking &amp; Finance<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All of us have paid more for soft-drinks or processed food at a station or an airport or in a mall. Nowadays enforced profits are squeezed out of consumers under the pretext of security due to which one is not allowed to carry anything to malls, amusement parks etc. This happens all the while! 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