(Fighting against New Coronary Pneumonia) Severely punishes "borrowing the epidemic to make money" Shanghai has investigated and handled 402 cases of price violations
China News Service, Shanghai, May 1 (Reporter Xu Jing) Since the current round of the epidemic, the Shanghai market supervision department has continued to strengthen the price supervision of people's livelihood commodities and epidemic prevention supplies, and quickly and severely cracked down on price violations.
The Shanghai Municipal Market Supervision Bureau disclosed on May 1 that as of April 30, the regulatory authorities had filed a total of 402 cases of price violations, and transferred 3 cases to the public security department.
Since March this year, the Shanghai Municipal Bureau of Market Supervision has successively issued 12 guiding documents, including the "Notice on Further Strengthening the Price Supervision of Important People's Livelihood Commodities and Anti-epidemic Supplies" and the "Warning Letter on Stabilizing the Prices of Basic People's Livelihood Commodities and Anti-epidemic Supplies". Use various means such as inspections, reminders, policy guidance, and key interviews to strengthen the guidance and supervision of enterprises and strengthen reminders and warnings to consumers.
In late March, due to the impact on the entire chain system including material supply, storage, and distribution, some merchants came up with the idea of fishing in troubled waters to make money from the epidemic.
Shanghai issued guidance in a timely manner, taking the basic livelihood commodities such as grain, oil, meat, eggs, vegetables and milk, and epidemic prevention supplies such as masks and antiviral drugs that are most closely related to the lives of the people as the scope of application for price gouging during the epidemic, clarifying the criteria for determining the increase, and warning operators not to. Taking advantage of the epidemic to obtain improper excess profits.
At present, in terms of the types of illegal acts, 63 illegal cases of price gouging have been handled, and the price difference between many operators exceeds 100%, and the highest is 486.8%.
Eighty percent of the cases violated the regulations on clearly marked prices, such as unmarked prices, price additions, and failure to label product information as required. There are also a few operators who use false and misleading pricing methods to induce consumers to conduct price fraud. .
Since the current round of the epidemic, some operators have used gimmicks such as "supply to Hong Kong" and "organic" to attract consumers to buy so-called "high-quality" staple and non-staple foods, and some operators have significantly increased delivery fees to drive up prices in disguise... For these illegal acts, the market has The regulatory authorities adopt a "zero tolerance" attitude in accordance with the law, focusing on heavier or top-level fines, and ordering operators to suspend business for rectification for individual price violations that are of a vile nature and cause great social harm.
With the further improvement of the epidemic prevention and control situation, more and more merchants and enterprises have resumed work and production in an orderly manner.
The Shanghai market supervision department focuses on the charges related to the resumption of work and production of enterprises, such as nucleic acid testing and disinfection services, and urges relevant institutions and service units to clearly mark prices and regulate price behavior.
For the newly introduced charging policies and measures to benefit enterprises, especially those involving special hardship industries and the bailout and development of small, medium and micro enterprises, strengthen the supervision and inspection of their implementation, and seriously investigate and deal with violations of laws and regulations that continue to collect fees that have been cancelled or reduced.
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