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Thursday, 15 January 2009
Putting the pressure on retailers as promised, the Ministry of Commerce has published a list of retail food stores and their food prices.
The list which was featured in a double page spread of The Gleaner on Thursday is compiled by the Consumer Affairs Commission (CAC).
It gives the prices of 15 basic items out of the 29 surveyed indicating the best and the worst prices offered in the Corporate area and Manchester.
The graphic presentation colour codes the prices and indicates the stores which have the lowest and highest prices; the lowest being in green and the highest in red.
The survey conducted on January 8 and 9 shows that overall best prices were at the Duhaney Park Branch of Shoppers Fair, where 13 items surveyed registered the lowest prices.
The highest prices were seen at Super Plus in Stony Hill where seven items of the 29 surveyed were more expensive.
In Mandeville, the best place to shop if you are keeping an eye on your dollar is the Mandeville Cash and Carry, while the more costly is JR's in Christiana.
At a press conference on Thursday morning to discuss the initiative Commerce Minister Karl Samuda said this is just the start of efforts to put the pressure on retailers to lower prices.
"This is what we are trying to do, simply trying to offer them the opportunity through informed information to do the best they can for themselves. We have no quarrel with anyone with their pricing structure or anything,"
"What we are doing as indicated in our previous meetings, we intend to use this which we think would be an effective tool in fighting this question of inflation and at the same time informing the consumers of the country as to the best places and bring pressure to bear on the particular retailer," said Mr. Samuda.
He said the next list will feature the prices of goods in food stores in St. Catherine and will be published in the next two weeks.
Mr. Samuda said his ministry will be surveying all the parishes and will eventually post these lists on local television stations.
He added that the next step will be to publish similar lists of hardwares and gasoline retailers.
http://www.radiojamaica.com/content/view/14901/26/
Putting the pressure on retailers as promised, the Ministry of Commerce has published a list of retail food stores and their food prices.
The list which was featured in a double page spread of The Gleaner on Thursday is compiled by the Consumer Affairs Commission (CAC).
It gives the prices of 15 basic items out of the 29 surveyed indicating the best and the worst prices offered in the Corporate area and Manchester.
The graphic presentation colour codes the prices and indicates the stores which have the lowest and highest prices; the lowest being in green and the highest in red.
The survey conducted on January 8 and 9 shows that overall best prices were at the Duhaney Park Branch of Shoppers Fair, where 13 items surveyed registered the lowest prices.
The highest prices were seen at Super Plus in Stony Hill where seven items of the 29 surveyed were more expensive.
In Mandeville, the best place to shop if you are keeping an eye on your dollar is the Mandeville Cash and Carry, while the more costly is JR's in Christiana.
At a press conference on Thursday morning to discuss the initiative Commerce Minister Karl Samuda said this is just the start of efforts to put the pressure on retailers to lower prices.
"This is what we are trying to do, simply trying to offer them the opportunity through informed information to do the best they can for themselves. We have no quarrel with anyone with their pricing structure or anything,"
"What we are doing as indicated in our previous meetings, we intend to use this which we think would be an effective tool in fighting this question of inflation and at the same time informing the consumers of the country as to the best places and bring pressure to bear on the particular retailer," said Mr. Samuda.
He said the next list will feature the prices of goods in food stores in St. Catherine and will be published in the next two weeks.
Mr. Samuda said his ministry will be surveying all the parishes and will eventually post these lists on local television stations.
He added that the next step will be to publish similar lists of hardwares and gasoline retailers.
http://www.radiojamaica.com/content/view/14901/26/