Property News · July 15, 2017

Why you might not be getting what you paid for


We assume that we get what it says on the tin, but with cuts to Trading Standards perhaps not …Are you really getting a litre of petrol at station forecourts? The pumps used to be checked once every six months. Now a petrol station is checked only once every two years. Is the weight printed on the side of a tin really what you get on the plate? Is the baggage weighing machine at the airport check-in really giving the right answer before someone demands extra cash from you?You may think someone’s checking on these things, just like you thought someone was checking on the cladding used on Grenfell Tower. But in a slow attrition that favours big business, the regime for weights and measures in the UK is heading into crisis. Continue reading…

Source : theguardian.com
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