The director of the Supervision and Consumer Protection Department at the Department of Economic Development, Ajman, Ahmed Khair Al Balushi, assured that «Emirates Today» that the department is implementing a series of inspection and control campaigns on food establishments and branches of the cooperative society to ensure prices and not to rise, indicating that complaints about high Prices received from the public and resolved on time, calling on community members to report any establishment that raises rates unjustified.
And among the most important measures that are followed in the event of installations violating laws and regulations, playing with and raising prices, warning the facility, and violating it for not observing the instructions issued by the department, and the value of the violation if the prices were raised for the first time unjustifiedly, 2000 dirhams, in order to not adhere to the instructions The department does not raise prices, indicating that in the event of repetition the violation doubles and reaches 100 thousand dirhams, provided that it does not exceed a year for that, indicating that in the event that the establishment does not respond, it is closed for a period not exceeding six months. He pointed out that the department seeks, in light of the current situation, to intensify awareness directed at consumers to protect and reassure them, as it issued a set of awareness messages to limit the spread and transmission of infection, indicating that consumers should choose the appropriate time to shop away from crowding times, and the necessity of wearing gloves when using shopping carts , Buying the necessary goods and keeping the bills, not to rush to buy and compare the goods in terms of quality and price, not to take children while shopping, and the need to use a hand sanitizer when completing shopping, and urged the consumer community to reduce The number of visits to societies, shopping malls, the use of electronic stores and home delivery services to avoid mixing and crowding. In the same regard, Al-Balooshi stressed that the department reassures the public of the availability of consumer goods in the emirate, and calls on them not to be afraid of running out of quantities, in addition to adhering to the government's directives that place their security and safety among its priorities.
He stated that the department recently implemented field control campaigns on the markets in the emirate to counter any negative phenomena by merchants, such as exploiting the increasing demand for some products with the aim of raising prices, and it edited immediate violations for violators.