Discuss the consumer's rights and the corresponding obligations of suppliers.

The concept: the consumer's protection against the market's power — the defective goods, the false claims, the unfair prices, the unsafe services. The consumer's vulnerabilities (the protection's rationale): the information's asymmetry (the buyer's ignorance of quality); the bargaining's inequality (the standard forms' take-it-or-leave-it); the harm's scale (the mass production's mass wrongs); the individual's smallness (the tiny claim's uneconomics — the rational apathy problem). The evolution's phases: 1. Caveat emptor's era — the buyer's own care (the common law's harsh classical rule). 2. The statutory turn — the sale-of-goods-and-merchandise legislation (the quality-and- description terms; the merchantability's arrival). 3. The consumer movement's era — the 1960s' rights revolution (the consumer's four rights proclaimed in 1962 — the safety, the information, the choice, the hearing; later the eight — adding redress, education, environment, basic needs). 4. The institutional era — the consumer agencies, the ombudsman faces, the consumer courts (the redressal's specialisation). 5. The global era — the UN Guidelines on Consumer Protection (1985, extended 2015); the international standards (the food-safety, the product-safety regimes); the digital market's questions (the platform faces, the data-driven wrongs).