SALockDown: Durban butcher in hot water for inflating meat prices ahead of lockdown | TheMercurySA
Durban - The owner of Longbury Meat Market in Phoenix, north of Durban, has been arrested for contravening the Consumer Protection Act Regulations and the Disaster Management Act Regulations.
Senior officials from the department’s Consumer Protection Services conducted a series of investigations following complaints of price hiking.Phoenix police have registered a case. In Pick n Pay Supermarket in Ballito, Hyper by the Sea in Durban and Pick n Pay in Pietermaritzburg, the department investigated allegations of excessive prices on Lucky Star Tin Fish from R18 to R22 and hand soap from R12 to R17.
"In order to protect consumers from exploitation during this period of lockdown, the department has engaged the services of the Consumer Goods Scheme Ombudsman," said the department.
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