I like to go to the fresh market ( I go 2-3 times a week to Onnut Market, close to the BTS) and I always go to the same shop, as the usually know what I want This morning I bought 3 KG of cucumbers (as I am a professional pickler) and it is the first time I bought it on the fresh market.

As I always write down in my pickle book how many grams/ingredients, I put my cucumbers on the scale at home (just to be sure how many sea salt I had to add) and it was only 2.3 kg, so please be ware, the fresh markets can be very expensive

No Weights and Measures inspectors in Thailand.

I hope you note the shop/stall so you can avoid them the next time?

If it would 5-10 % off.....OK but 2.3=20 % less

Next time I go shopping I'll bring a known weight with me, should be interesting. . .

at the local market where I shop the scale is right there on the counter and you can see the measure...the local shoppers don't take no <deleted> from the vendors and the transaction is open for everyone to see...

I'm cool as I buy veges for the entire household in one go and the vendors know that my trade is valuable...and I usually got the step daughter, the little niece and the BiL's wife with me so that there's no messin' about...

(tutsi arrives at the local market with his entourage and then there is a perceptible hush...ye always gotta have an entourage as a lone falang is easy game...)

In my local markets most of the stuff is priced and I pay the same as the locals.

If the scales are out everybody gets pissed about it so it doesn't normally happen more than once.

One thing I have noticed is that we have a daily market and 3 other markets on monday, Wednesday and Saturday but the number of staal at those 3 seen to get less every month.

Edited May 13, 201214 yr by billd766