Wrong billing for a food product in a shopping mall

WRONG BILLING. The wife of a wellknown private university administrator went shopping for groceries and food products in a shopping mall. Among her purchases was an imported food product with a price tag of P75. She bought half a dozen of this. After paying at the cashier’s counter she discovered that instead of P75 she was wrongly charged P750 each. She didn’t make a fuss. No problem. Except that no one in the cashier’s counter said sorry for the recklessness.

ALWAYS CHECK. A DTI official has always been reminding shoppers to check any food product’s expiry date. Which is a welcome advice. One Ear reader sometime ago bought a packaged local delicacy for “sinugatan” purposes only to discover at home that the expiry date had elapsed. “May nalang nasakpan ko. Nauwawan unta ko kon nahatag ko isip sinugatan,” the reader said.