Its President Nadzim Johan said that customers should be more careful with the items they wished to purchase.
“Customers need to be more cautious when buying items. Of course, there is some fault in the seller who may have been insensitive, but as a seller he can sell whatever he wants to sell.
“If we want to purchase items, we have to make sure that we do not buy the wrong things. If you buy online, we also have to make sure that we make the best choice,” he told FMT.
He said this when asked to comment on reports by Sinar Harian that a customer had to abandon the idea of sewing an outfit for Hari Raya when she realised the fabric she purchased from a department store in Jalan Tunku Abdul Rahman contained the image of Jesus.
The customer, Aizawati Che Salleh, said she bought three metres of the material at the store recently when it was offered at a special discount.
Nadzim however stressed that every customer needed to be more careful with what they were about to purchase in order to avoid a repeat of such incidents.
“Aside from the Islamic authorities and the Ministry of Domestic Trade, Cooperatives and Consumerism, we ourselves have a role to play,” he said.
Johan said he hoped the department store would cooperate and allow the customer involved to exchange the fabric she bought with one that did not have an image of Jesus imprinted on it.
He also confirmed that PPIM had received a report from the customer regarding the matter, two days ago.