From the Chinese press

A consumer-created crisis

With the price of salt returning to normal, hundreds of people in Wenzhou, Zhejiang province, visited supermarkets and shops to return their purchase, sparking a public debate on whether that should be allowed, says an article in Xinhua Daily Telegraph. Excerpts:

Many people now want to return the salt they bought in bulk after being buoyed by rumors of an impending crisis because of radiation from Japan's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, which was battered by a devastating earthquake on March 11 and the subsequent tsunami.