Consumer’s Day

Today’s session of the GABFEST speaking club (at Window on America center Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine) was dedicated to the topic Consumer’s Day.
Before the mid-twentieth century, consumers were without rights with regard to their interaction with products and commercial producers. Consumers had little ground on which to defend themselves against faulty or defective products, or against misleading or deceptive advertising method
By the 1950s, a movement called consumerism began to gather a following, pushing for increased rights and legal protection against malicious business practices. By the end of the decade, legal product liability had been established in which an aggrieved party need only prove injury by use of a product, rather than bearing the burden of proof of corporate negligence.In 1962, President John F. Kennedy presented a speech to the United States Congress in which he extolled four basic consumer rights, later called The Consumer Bill of Rights
We have talked about the consumers’ rights in Ukraine and their violations. We analyzed the rights of transport passengers and their typical violations on different types of transport - from public transport to aviation. Club members shared their stories about bad quality of services and how they fought for their rights.
Another important problem for our city is the poor quality of tap water. We discussed several ways of handling this problem. One of them was the use of detergents for household needs.
The topic was important as we all are consumers and deserve better quality of consumer products.
The number of participants – 30 persons.

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