Business

GUIDELINES FOR THE ‘80s
Consumer aware
— and beware!

AND NOW, nostalgia buffs, we take you back to the gold-
en days of consumerism. Perhaps you remember when ...

e Ralph Nader, consumer
crusader of the '60s, struck fear
into the hearts of big bad business.

e North Vancouver's Nicole
Parton wrote a consumer column
in The Vancouver Sun, triumphing
the ordinary shopper's cause.

EERE CRE Se
dollars and

sense

by Mike Grenby

sont yee ue yee
© The federal and provincial
consumer affairs ministries had
real power in the marketplace.

® The Consumers Association of
Canada would have had enough
money to pay me the $750 it has
owed me for almost a year for a

major article | wrote for the Ca-
nadian Consumer magazine — on,
appropriately, Credit and Debt.

Have we all become such super
consumers that there's no longer
any need for the consumer move-
ment?

“People have become more
knowledgeable in a lot of areas but
we shouldn't be lulled into a false
sense of security,’’ West Van-
couver’s Ada Brown, president of
the B.C. branch of the Consumers’
Association of Canada, told me.

‘‘Many people are still very
naive in their shopping practices.
We Canadians tend to be a trusting
people. Sometimes we should be a
little more suspicious and cynical.

“For the most part, businesses
are fair, But we will always have
some businesses that do not treat
consumers fairly. And many of the
unscrupulous businesses have
become mere hardnosed.”

So it’s still “Consumer aware —
and beware!’ That particularly
applies when products and services
are new to the consumer.

‘“‘When computers first began to
be mass-marketed in the late ’70s,
consumers did not know very
much about the field and had to
rely on the judgment of people in
the business,’’ said Duncan Fraser,

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