The danger of anonymous goods threatens the national economy

The danger of anonymous goods

threatens the national economy

Ashraf Al Husseini - Mecca:

The principle of savings and reducing consumer expenses, a large segment of citizens and residents resort to buying counterfeit and cheated products at low prices as a result of their spread within the local market in recent years, where the consumer is unaware of the damage behind their attractive prices, namely the poor products used in the manufacture of those goods, which have extended their damage to the national economy to harm public health and cause many chronic diseases.

Economist Dr. Zaid Rommany warned against purchasing goods that lacked efficiency and quality, because much of them had multiple health damages, as cases of bodily harm had already been detected for the use of counterfeit goods paid for by society and the national economy.

He added that the failure to eliminate the offending goods was the result of the lack of integrative work between the government and civil agencies concerned with dealing with the imbalance, and said «The Ministry of Commerce and Industry works to pass the communications it receives to the Saudi Authority for Specifications, Standards and Quality, which in turn justifies its non-intervention on the grounds that its competence to evaluate specific goods, and therefore the complaint is referred to consumer protection, and this interference in decision-making contributes to the disruption of the solution of the problem, which spread significantly in the absence of the application of sanctions The system against violators."

The economist warned of the phenomenon of "rarity of prevailing concepts" as Saudi societies stick to the things that they are used to use, and do not accept to replace them easily, and said «unless the government and civil agencies address the phenomenon, its spread will be more severe in the coming years,especially in light of the low purchasing power, and the low wages of low-income people, which pushes them to buy counterfeit goods that left no commercial space except and entered it, which contributed to the spread of unknown hardware stores in the markets, which The remaining goods have traditionally been promoted one month or below at attractive prices.

Dr. Rommany added "It is not forbidden to offer a medium-quality product at a reasonable price, and if we are going to demand the purchase of high quality products only, free of harmful substances, it is better to address the material problems of citizens."

He called for the Saudi economy to follow in the footsteps of Asian countries that have made remarkable progress, although their economies are somewhat modest compared to the Saudi economy.

Maher Jamal, president of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry in Mecca, stressed that the spread of counterfeit goods is a rejected phenomenon, especially goods that mislead consumers with the quality of their products, adding that "we have to differentiate between counterfeit goods and quality levels, and what is required is to provide many different products and services of high quality to all categories without discrimination, and will work to avoid all counterfeit goods that imitate a certain "brand" because it causes serious losses at the individual level and society as a whole.