Question

'All persons have equal rights to visit any shop in a marketplace.' Do you think this is true of shops with expensive products? Explain with examples.

Answer 1

Hint: Visiting a shop is very different from purchasing items from a shop. None of the shops can force you to buy any product unless you want to buy that product.

Complete answer: Yes, it is true. The shops may have expensive or inexpensive products but the customers who enter those shops need not be wealthy to visit those shops. A customer is free to visit any shop of his choice and then make up his or her mind on whether to buy or not buy an item. No shop can dictate a customer in any way to forcefully buy a product nor can discriminate among customers visiting their shops.
For example, a person makes up his mind to buy a guitar and visits the most expensive showroom of music related items. While seeing the items, he realises that he should spend that portion of his money on a car which would actually facilitate his life daily. So, he leaves the guitar showroom immediately without making any purchase and then visits the car showroom. On reaching the car showroom, he finds the cars not so attractive but anyway settles for a particular product available on the request of the showroom owners. However, he then realises that he is short of money so he cannot pay for it at that moment and leaves without any purchase. Hence, we can see that the person visited the shops but did not make any purchase and this did not cause any difference in his treatment by the shop staff.

Note: The shops cannot discriminate among the customers by the law of free markets in India. The customers can file legal complaints against such shops which shall be liable to compensate for that matter by law in many countries including India.