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Parallel Sessions (Consumer Behavior): The Pakistani Consumer: Dumb Or Dumber?, Owais Hassan Shaikh
Parallel Sessions (Consumer Behavior): The Pakistani Consumer: Dumb Or Dumber?, Owais Hassan Shaikh
International Conference on Marketing
The Competition Commission of Pakistan (CCP) has adopted the notion of ordinary consumer for assessing confusion or deception in ‘deceptive marketing practices’ cases under Section 10 of the Competition Act, 2010i . In its first order in this area, the CCP defined ordinary consumer as a person who is ‘the usual, common or foreseeable user or buyer of the product’ (CCPa, p. 30) and differs from the ‘ordinary prudent man’ under contract law. According to the CCP, this conceptualisation of the Pakistani consumer was important for achieving the goal of implementing the Competition Act 2010 in its letter and spirit, …