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    The document discusses issues with the supply chain system in Bangladesh that negatively impacts consumers. It notes that while a well-functioning supply chain is important for reducing costs and effort for consumers, the system in Bangladesh is often exploited by intermediaries who charge extra fees, distort price information, and increase prices significantly. As an example, the document describes how the price of shrimp increases by 50% from village markets to Dhaka due to actions of middlemen along the supply chain. It recommends several measures like building inventories, requiring transparent pricing, and enabling direct sales to address this problem.

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    The document discusses issues with the supply chain system in Bangladesh that negatively impacts consumers. It notes that while a well-functioning supply chain is important for reducing costs and effort for consumers, the system in Bangladesh is often exploited by intermediaries who charge extra fees, distort price information, and increase prices significantly. As an example, the document describes how the price of shrimp increases by 50% from village markets to Dhaka due to actions of middlemen along the supply chain. It recommends several measures like building inventories, requiring transparent pricing, and enabling direct sales to address this problem.

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    The document discusses issues with the supply chain system in Bangladesh that negatively impacts consumers. It notes that while a well-functioning supply chain is important for reducing costs and effort for consumers, the system in Bangladesh is often exploited by intermediaries who charge extra fees, distort price information, and increase prices significantly. As an example, the document describes how the price of shrimp increases by 50% from village markets to Dhaka due to actions of middlemen along the supply chain. It recommends several measures like building inventories, requiring transparent pricing, and enabling direct sales to address this problem.

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    WICKED SUPPLY CHAIN: UNLUCKY CONSUMERS 

    Written by: Shati Itminan, Rezaur Rahman, Hasibur Rahman, Shaila Afroz Khan and Bushra Mostafa, 
    students of East West University 

    Supply chain is the array of wholesalers, retailers and other third parties who facilitates the end 
    user  to  get  the  myriad  products  or  solutions  from  the  producer  far  away  from  him.  A  well 
    equipped  supply  chain  is  very  important  for  the  consumers  to  reduce  their  valuable  time, 
    energy,  effort  and  also  money.  This  is  most  important  specially  in  the  case  of  buying  foreign 
    products.  Consumers may take supply chain system as a “blessing” for them 

    With  a  woeful  heart,  we  have  to  say  that  this supply  chain  system  can  turn  into a  curse.  The 
    immoral  interventions  of  the  mischievous  sprite  third  parties  sometimes  turn  this  chain  into 
    vicious trap. These middle men benefit themselves by charging the end users extra money. Very 
    often as the supply chain increase, not only information among the channels gets distorted, but 
    also  price  of  the  product  increases  as  it  passes  through  several  channels.  As  a  result,  a  lion 
    share of the money is grabbed by the intermediaries.  

    As  a  part  of  the  study  we  contacted  a  fisherman  of  Shyamnagar,  Satkhira  ,  a  major  supplier 
    district of Shrimp in Bangladesh. According to him, the initial selling price of the “Galda” shrimp 
    in the local village market is around tk. 400‐450. The price is about tk. 500 in Satkhira market 
    and  in  Dhaka  one  end  user  gets  this  fish  at  a  cost  of  tk.  550‐600.  So  the  price  of  the  shrimp 
    increases almost 50%. This assumption remains true for other fish, meat and vegetables. 

    How this differential can be resolved? Well this is not an easy job. However, implementing the 
    measures mentioned below can help to reduce the disparity in price increase. 

    1. Building inventories for non perishable goods. 
    2. Forcing the suppliers to unbundle pricing. 
    3. Using technical instruments that will enable the marginal farmer or fisherman to know 
    about the current market price demand etc. 
    4. Establishing a viable way that will help the rural farmers to sell their products directly to 
    the retailers without the help of third parties. 

    Presently due to the malevolent supply chain system, we the end users are paying extra money 
    and  the  poor  farmers  and  fishermen  are  getting  deprived  of  their  legitimate  returns.  It  really 
    doesn’t  make  sense.  So,  we  should  come  forward  and  stand  against  this  wicked  supply  chain 
    system. 

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