(OR) Explain the importance of consumer protection from the point of view of a business.

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> Consumer protection is important for business because it ensures long-term survival, discharges social responsibility, avoids legal trouble and builds goodwill — serving the firm's own interest.
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> Consumer protection is often seen only as a duty towards consumers, but it is also important **from the business's own point of view**, for the following reasons:
> 1. **Long-term interest and survival of business** — A business survives on its customers. Satisfying and protecting consumers ensures repeat purchases, loyalty and long-run survival and growth; cheating them drives them away.
> 2. **Business uses society's resources** — A business uses resources that belong to society (consumers, workers, suppliers). It is therefore accountable to them and must protect their interests.
> 3. **Social responsibility** — A business has a social responsibility towards various interest groups — owners, workers, government and, importantly, consumers — whose interests it must safeguard.
> 4. **Moral/ethical justification** — Honest and fair dealing with consumers is a moral obligation; supplying safe, fairly priced, genuine goods is the ethical duty of business.
> 5. **Government intervention** — If business exploits consumers, the government steps in with strict laws and penalties. By protecting consumers voluntarily, business avoids such intervention. …

Q.(OR) Explain the importance of consumer protection from the point of view of a business.

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Q.(OR) Explain the importance of consumer protection from the point of view of a business.

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