Under the Consumer Protection from Unfair Trading Regulation
Mar 25, 2020 23:32:31 GMT
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Under the Consumer Protection from Unfair Trading Regulations 2008, it is illegal to charge a higher price when a lower price is clearly displayed. (19 Mar 2020)
Birmingham’s Trading Standards teams visited shops across the city as part of a clamp-down on dual-pricing, warning traders they face prosecution if found to be exploiting customers in this way.
Officers visited shops and supermarkets in Lozells, Nechells, Sparkbrook, Sparkhill and Soho today (19 March 2020) after receiving more than 70 complaints about shops charging a higher price than the one originally marked.
Visits were carried out at 19 premises but many of the stores had already been stripped of the overpriced products as a result of customers bulk-buying. Officers made three test purchases of fruit juice, toilet rolls and rice – only one retailer charged the lower price.
Under the Consumer Protection from Unfair Trading Regulations 2008, it is illegal to charge a higher price when a lower price is clearly displayed.
www.birmingham.gov.uk/news/article/562/trading_standards_warn_traders_over_dual-pricing_practices
CMA to act against traders raising prices on goods such as hand sanitiser and toilet roll
www.theguardian.com/business/2020/mar/20/new-uk-taskforce-to-crack-down-on-coronavirus-profiteers
www.newsshopper.co.uk/news/18334694.greenwich-council-warns-police-intervention-price-hiking-unethical-trading/
www.which.co.uk/news/2020/03/online-marketplaces-coronavirus-update-ebay-and-amazon/?utm_campaign=whichukt&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook&utm_content=Pricegouging&utm_term=fbnews&fbclid=IwAR02a8DdxzgEydPr8b7Z6gew8Zxemfrh3NXXuXweSLg7WR5cRqXVoQeEA08
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LATEST NEWS:
Dated: Friday 20/03/2020
Watney Supermarket Priyo Bazaar Fined £50,000 by Trading Standards for inflating prices of goods.
Pak supermarket and Mirchi fined and closed £25,000
The following list of shops is due to be fined as soon as the officers get round to the visits.
S&D Soho Road should be next
Mas Bazar – Unit 2 Beckton Retail Park, E6 6LA.
Mas Bazar – 138 Chapman Street, E1 2PH.
Mas Bazar – 265 Whitchaple Road, E1 1JN.
Syldon Bazaar – 84 Plashet Rd, E13 0RQ.
Fish Bazar – 137 Chapman street, E1 2PH.
Bondor Bazar – 131-132 Chapman Street, E1 2PH.
Rahim Brother limited – 216-218 Mile End Road, E1 4LJ.
Priyo Bazaar, Watney Market, E1
Amar Bazar- Faircross parade
Barking, IG11 8UN.
The Meat Factory-
365 Ripple Rd,
Barking, IG11 9PN.
Bangla Town Cash & Carry-
67 Hunbury St, Spitalfields,
London E1 5JL
Trading standards have urged the public to continue reporting these shops who are inflating prices. We can only investigate and impose fines on these shops if the public exposes them.
Keeping Passing this message on. BOYCOTT shops and stick to main supermarkets.
Anyone with bad experience at S&D Soho Rd Birmingham or any other shops please contact any number below and report please.
To make a complaint, please call the national consumer helpline on:
Tel: 0808 223 1133
Complaints can be made by calling the CMA on:
Tel: 020 3738 6000.
If you are based in Scotland call:
Tel: 0808 164 6000
Tel: Citizens Advice consumer helpline on:
Tel: 03454 04 05 06
Tel: 0808 2231133
Please share this information with your contacts so we can get as many people to complain and get the unfair prices reduced as it should be.
Think - Get Number - Report It
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Trading Standards are urging consumers to report any examples they find of unscrupulous traders exploiting the current situation to take advantage of people with unjustified high prices.
The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has launched a task force to prevent businesses from taking advantage of shoppers during the UK Coronavirus outbreak.
They have set up a dedicated online public form - forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=1PJIGcILXkyMNMqsnXNoNB1GefqkoNJFg77Wm645XBJUMksyMENTWVhBQlNXUEtKVEo1STdVMFNZNS4u&fbclid=IwAR0kq5w7bFuPQ25KytbGWlGm48ZdpXcalfknirsTLw8_tabULP9GWb2iqMU - which consumers can use to raise concerns. You will need to include the name and address of the business and enclose any evidence. If you prefer, you can email covid.monitoring@cma.gov.uk.
The CMA will consider any evidence that companies may have broken competition or consumer protection law, for example, by charging excessive prices or making misleading claims about the effectiveness of protective equipment. These obligations may also apply to members of the public if they resell goods, for example, on online marketplaces.
Trading Standards urge retailers to behave responsibly throughout the Coronavirus outbreak and not make misleading claims or charge vastly inflated prices.
Birmingham’s Trading Standards teams visited shops across the city as part of a clamp-down on dual-pricing, warning traders they face prosecution if found to be exploiting customers in this way.
Officers visited shops and supermarkets in Lozells, Nechells, Sparkbrook, Sparkhill and Soho today (19 March 2020) after receiving more than 70 complaints about shops charging a higher price than the one originally marked.
Visits were carried out at 19 premises but many of the stores had already been stripped of the overpriced products as a result of customers bulk-buying. Officers made three test purchases of fruit juice, toilet rolls and rice – only one retailer charged the lower price.
Under the Consumer Protection from Unfair Trading Regulations 2008, it is illegal to charge a higher price when a lower price is clearly displayed.
www.birmingham.gov.uk/news/article/562/trading_standards_warn_traders_over_dual-pricing_practices
CMA to act against traders raising prices on goods such as hand sanitiser and toilet roll
www.theguardian.com/business/2020/mar/20/new-uk-taskforce-to-crack-down-on-coronavirus-profiteers
www.newsshopper.co.uk/news/18334694.greenwich-council-warns-police-intervention-price-hiking-unethical-trading/
www.which.co.uk/news/2020/03/online-marketplaces-coronavirus-update-ebay-and-amazon/?utm_campaign=whichukt&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook&utm_content=Pricegouging&utm_term=fbnews&fbclid=IwAR02a8DdxzgEydPr8b7Z6gew8Zxemfrh3NXXuXweSLg7WR5cRqXVoQeEA08
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Doing the rounds on social media:-
Best news all day👍
LATEST NEWS:
Dated: Friday 20/03/2020
Watney Supermarket Priyo Bazaar Fined £50,000 by Trading Standards for inflating prices of goods.
Pak supermarket and Mirchi fined and closed £25,000
The following list of shops is due to be fined as soon as the officers get round to the visits.
S&D Soho Road should be next
Mas Bazar – Unit 2 Beckton Retail Park, E6 6LA.
Mas Bazar – 138 Chapman Street, E1 2PH.
Mas Bazar – 265 Whitchaple Road, E1 1JN.
Syldon Bazaar – 84 Plashet Rd, E13 0RQ.
Fish Bazar – 137 Chapman street, E1 2PH.
Bondor Bazar – 131-132 Chapman Street, E1 2PH.
Rahim Brother limited – 216-218 Mile End Road, E1 4LJ.
Priyo Bazaar, Watney Market, E1
Amar Bazar- Faircross parade
Barking, IG11 8UN.
The Meat Factory-
365 Ripple Rd,
Barking, IG11 9PN.
Bangla Town Cash & Carry-
67 Hunbury St, Spitalfields,
London E1 5JL
Trading standards have urged the public to continue reporting these shops who are inflating prices. We can only investigate and impose fines on these shops if the public exposes them.
Keeping Passing this message on. BOYCOTT shops and stick to main supermarkets.
Anyone with bad experience at S&D Soho Rd Birmingham or any other shops please contact any number below and report please.
To make a complaint, please call the national consumer helpline on:
Tel: 0808 223 1133
Complaints can be made by calling the CMA on:
Tel: 020 3738 6000.
If you are based in Scotland call:
Tel: 0808 164 6000
Tel: Citizens Advice consumer helpline on:
Tel: 03454 04 05 06
Tel: 0808 2231133
Please share this information with your contacts so we can get as many people to complain and get the unfair prices reduced as it should be.
Think - Get Number - Report It
---------------------------------
Trading Standards are urging consumers to report any examples they find of unscrupulous traders exploiting the current situation to take advantage of people with unjustified high prices.
The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has launched a task force to prevent businesses from taking advantage of shoppers during the UK Coronavirus outbreak.
They have set up a dedicated online public form - forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=1PJIGcILXkyMNMqsnXNoNB1GefqkoNJFg77Wm645XBJUMksyMENTWVhBQlNXUEtKVEo1STdVMFNZNS4u&fbclid=IwAR0kq5w7bFuPQ25KytbGWlGm48ZdpXcalfknirsTLw8_tabULP9GWb2iqMU - which consumers can use to raise concerns. You will need to include the name and address of the business and enclose any evidence. If you prefer, you can email covid.monitoring@cma.gov.uk.
The CMA will consider any evidence that companies may have broken competition or consumer protection law, for example, by charging excessive prices or making misleading claims about the effectiveness of protective equipment. These obligations may also apply to members of the public if they resell goods, for example, on online marketplaces.
Trading Standards urge retailers to behave responsibly throughout the Coronavirus outbreak and not make misleading claims or charge vastly inflated prices.