New Delhi, Aug. 6 -- A Redditor's post on product quality disparity between India and the West sparked debate online. Expressing unpleasant experience post return to India after living 8 years in the US, the user compared products sold in D-Mart and Reliance stores with those of Walmart.

The caption to the post states, "Why is there such a massive quality difference in products between the West and India?"

He mentioned that the massive difference in product quality "is impossible to ignore" and is a concerning issue. Troubled and anguished to see the contrast in the products sold in India, even in the most basic things like garbage bags, he said they are "flimsy and tear too easily, and in expensive, branded clothes that don't hold up a...