QUOTE(Valentino46 @ Apr 8 2019, 03:03 AM)
i would argue otherwise
in term of probability, it'll be foolish and low possibility for multi million supermarket corporation who had everything to lose if they been caught selling counterfeit stuff just to earn the small profit from engine oil section
they had their products displayed in front of millions of shoppers which includes their competitors, other oil suppliers,and even Shell or petronas staff to examine, if they sell fake oil they'll be caught in 5 seconds, they won't survive selling fake thing for so many years now.
but different stories for small individual parts store outside, they always stow their products behind the counter unless you want to buy, they can change their inventory very fast to cover up,they're relatively small and selling fake stuff provide them big profit, and they have relatively nothing to lose, i would be more wary of these stores than supermarket
While some of your statements are true, but would it make sense that Shell Malaysia issue a statement saying RRP for an oil is say RM280, and a hypermarket can sell it at RM99?
That doesn't make sense. Either the oil is imported illegally or it is leaning towards being a fake.
Also, Shell Malaysia has highlighted that their oils can only be sold through their official channel.
Imagine, Apple sets RM3999 for iphone Xs Max. Giant sells it for RM 1999, will you think it is fake?