China News Service, April 25. According to the WeChat public account of the Shanghai Municipal Market Supervision and Administration Bureau, at present, community group buying has become an important way and played an important role in ensuring the supply of living materials for the city's citizens during the lockdown period. There are some problems such as shortage of two pounds and incompatibility of quality and price.
In this regard, the city's market supervision department pays close attention to it, strengthens reminders, warnings and administrative guidance to community group buying organizers and operators, resolutely intensifies crackdowns on illegal acts, and strictly investigates and handles them quickly and strictly.
In the past few days, according to complaints and reports from the masses and active inspections on social platforms, a number of price violations have been seized, and some typical cases are now selected for publication.
Case 1: Shanghai Suhui Fei Catering Management Co., Ltd. used community group purchases to sell pasta price fraud
The Shanghai market supervision department recently received reports from citizens that the packaged food received through community group purchases did not match the price tag in the previous WeChat group, and law enforcement officers immediately launched an investigation.
After investigation, Shanghai Suhui Fei Catering Management Co., Ltd. sells dim sum packages, and the package with a price tag of 128 yuan includes its own exclusive brand bread, cake, mochi, etc.
The party actually purchased other brand products from a third-party company, and without informing consumers, changed the brand category of the group-purchased products without authorization, infringing on the rights and interests of consumers.
The behavior of the parties violated the provisions of Article 14 (4) of the "Price Law of the People's Republic of China" and constituted an illegal act of price gouging.
The case is currently being processed.
Case 2: Meng's use of community group buying to sell fruit price fraud
After receiving clues from citizens recently, the Shanghai market supervision department immediately conducted law enforcement inspections on Meng's business premises on Xinsong Road, Minhang District.
The on-site inspection found that the parties were dealing in rake oranges, cantaloupes, mangoes and other fruits in the community group buying group.
Among them, the price of rake oranges was announced at 180 yuan/box (about 10 kilograms), but the law enforcement officers weighed the batch of rake oranges on the spot and weighed about 9 kilograms per box.
The specifications and contents of the products indicated by the parties in the community group buying group were inconsistent with the actual situation, and there was a phenomenon of "shortage of two pounds".
The behavior of the parties violated the provisions of Article 14 (4) of the "Price Law of the People's Republic of China" and constituted an illegal act of price gouging.
The market supervision department has served a notice of administrative punishment, and plans to order the parties to return the overcharged 4,266 yuan to consumers.
Case 3: Price gouging of Jiangwan store of Shanghai Yifeng Pharmacy Chain Co., Ltd.
The Shanghai market supervision department recently received a report from the public that the Jiangwan store of Shanghai Yifeng Pharmacy Chain Co., Ltd. was selling edible oil and other living materials at high prices on a certain platform. investigation.
After investigation, during the epidemic closure and control period, when the offline sales price of the pharmacy was 77 yuan/barrel, the sales price of "Duoli Sunflower Oil 5L" on a certain platform "Yifeng Pharmacy Jiangwan Store" was changed. Significantly increased to 150 yuan / barrel.
The above-mentioned behavior of the parties violated Article 14, paragraph 1 (3) of the "Price Law of the People's Republic of China" and the relevant provisions of the "Guiding Opinions on Determining Illegal Behaviors of Price Gouging During the Epidemic Prevention and Control Period", and constituted an illegal price gouging act.
The case is currently being processed.
The Shanghai Municipal Bureau of Market Supervision will continue to supervise and guide relevant operators with relevant departments to provide consumers with reasonably priced goods and services based on operating costs, and to clearly mark prices in accordance with the principles of openness, fairness, and good faith, so as to effectively maintain market price order. and the legitimate rights and interests of consumers.