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Pricey vegetables bring tough time

We agree that the most recent difficult time for the common people was brought on by more expensive vegetables, which made them reflect on what our beloved everyday precious life now entails. The surprising circumstance has become a difficult period to endure. Due to several circumstances, vegetable prices are currently high in several places, including Kanpur.  Various common vegetables are now less available and more expensive because of supply chain disruptions, particularly those caused by the rainy climate. Media do not fail to report that rising vegetable prices are practically putting pressure on household finances, particularly for those with lower incomes. Prices for vegetables vary based on terrain and local market conditions, even though they are often pricey. According to the Economic Survey 2024–25, unfavourable weather conditions, such as unexpected rainfall and prolonged heatwaves, have impacted crop output and created supply shortages, which have forced prices high ...

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Nothing is insignificant, so why is the return of a one-rupee coin to customers on all occasions not considered vital at all. 

Whether you go to glitzy malls or roadside shops, it is not an important practice in all cases. Some shops are reportedly not taking the one-rupee coins. This remains the stark reality of the time.  

The one-rupee coin is of course the smallest denomination of our currency. When an item costs 99 rupees paying a 100-rupee note becomes a headache as the wise seller typically does not return the one rupee due.

The seller rounds down the price to the nearest whole number to avoid giving change, or they may give a piece of candy or a small item instead of the one-rupee coin. This is not done nowadays. 

This practice is common in every situation where the smallest coin or note is of higher value than the change due, and it remains quite convenient for the seller to round off the transaction.

One mobile user looked very enraged at the mobile recharge shop. He could not get the amount of money from the shopkeeper. This is certainly not the case with only one single consumer.

The greedy shopkeeper appeared expert in pretending over shortages of the lower denomination coins to pay the customers in return. Was it not a jaw-dropping instance? 

Undeniably, such verbal complaints abound as not securing the money annoys the consumers. However, the consumers had to bear the brunt without any genuine reason.  

The customers requiring the recharge for less than a month pay a total amount of less than one rupee in round figures. 

They are more often facing this sort of peculiarly unending problem. They do not find any proper way to deal with this open cunningness of the shopkeepers. 

Despite the shopkeepers' brazen attitude of not inclining to return one single rupee, the mobile users go for a recharge to the same shop in the area, they maintain. 

It has also been genuinely found that almost all mobile recharge shopkeepers have been more or less following such a tendency. 

Not all customers are supposedly using online payment systems, so they are clearly undergoing this kind of trouble. We are all just living in it, said the customers.  

It seems quite easy for the shopkeepers to cheat the customers by merely pretending that there is no change. If the customers complain, the shopkeeper's uncivil attitude emerges at that moment. 

Most of the worried customers assert this practical fact. If they speak against the shopkeeper, their bad facial expressions decidedly with anger stay. 

The shopkeepers claim the money as their right as they do not feel an iota of shame in not returning the change. 

The shopkeepers' special thinking helps them in denying the lawful rights of the customers. In parallel, they without any shame collect the money by their pretence, said the customers. 



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