******************** Date: 2005-6-24 Time: 9:32:18 Issue No.84 ******************** Question:
`A business should not be held responsible for providing customers with complete information about its products or services; customers should have the responsibility of gathering information about the products or services they may want to buy.
Discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the opinion stated above. Support your views with reasons and/or examples from your own experience, observations, or reading. .
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Your Answer:
Recently, the people in this city are more and more concerning about the issue whether the business are responsible for providing the products' information or customers are responsible for gathering the information. For a long time, we take for granted that the consumer themselves should gather the information about the products or services they may want to buy, however, the issue turns out to be a complex and controversial problem and depends on a variety of factors. It deserves a careful investigation and could not be concluded hastily.
After weighing it in the nicest scales, I find that there is no empirical evidence which would persuade us to wholly accept the long-existing claim, which will appear to be unconvincing in the light of more persuasive assertion that it is the business's responsibility to provide customers with complete information about its products or services.
The primary reason I vote for this position relies on the undeniable fact that the producers are more familiar with the products. They have advantages and are much more convenient to provide the useful information effectively. For example, whether the food is containing some harmful objects, or actually could cause an environmental hazard. Those issues are indeed difficult for someone who is not experts in the area to acknowledge.
Another reason which could be presented to develop my suggestion is concerning about the competition. To gain an advantage during the products' promotion, the business should offer more useful and more complete information to please the customers and further more to attract them to purchase more products of the corporation. People usually prefer to choose a product which seems specific with more related information; for instance, what will you choose to buy when you face two sugar packages with one reads "low-calories" and another reads nothing?
There is also a third reason for me to choose this statement, which is really deniable. It is a law-request for business to provide certain information about the products. Any company who does not pursue a penalty has to follow the regulation.
Admittedly, it is entirely possible that the customers could not be excluded in the information collection during their purchases. However, this alone does not constitute a sufficient support to claim that they have a major responsibility and is too weak to strengthen an objection. In fact, according to the convenience and the necessaries the producers own, we could safely arrive at the conclusion I support.
In the final analysis, due to the reasons discussed above, it seems imprudent to tell that customers should take the responsibility in gathering the products' information, and more reasonable to consider producers as subjects. Therefore, it is clear that the business should do better to improve their information services in order to gain a more competitive position in the market.
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