WHILE commending the Zambia Bureau of Standards (ZABS) for spreading its tentacles to Southern, Eastern, Northern, Copperbelt and Muchinga provinces, Talking Shop would like the bureau to up its game by ensuring consumers are given quality products.
Talking Shop says this in view of counterfeit-second rate products that have flooded the market in Zambia.
Talking Shop has observed with dismay that many people who have travelled abroad to countries like South Africa, Botswana, Namibia and Malawi feel the standards of products and services in Zambia leaves much to be desired.
Talking Shop would like ZABS to bring back the old good days in Zambia when quality of products on the market were closely policed and were of international standards.

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Talking Shop has commended Edgars at Levy Junction Shopping Mall for the good customer care they were providing to its customers.
Talking Shop observed that cashiers attending to customers were providing good and prompt services to customers flocking to the outlet.

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There is need for authorities to compel every shop owner to accept small denomination coins like 5 ngwees as legal tender.
This call is made from the backdrop that apart from Shoprite and Spur shopping malls, most private shop owners continue to reject coins in Ndola.
It is common to see small denominational coins being used for only scratching air time cards, not even a collection amounting to reasonable figure is acceptable by shop owners.