With the approaching of the month of Ramadan, the price monitoring team of the Ministry of Commerce and Industry, carried out a proactive campaign on the markets selling dates, food commodities, and mills in the Shuwaikh area to view and control prices, reports Al-Qabas daily.
Acting Undersecretary of the Ministry of Commerce, Muhammad Al-Enezi, confirmed to Al-Qabas that strict measures were taken to protect consumers’ rights and monitor prices, especially in cooperative societies and parallel markets, and to prevent artificial high prices.
Al-Enezi mentioned that the focus is on cooperative societies to control prices, especially since they represent 80 percent of the consumer market, indicating that the work of field teams is continuing and that the goal of monitoring the market is to protect consumers from artificial prices.
The director of the technical apparatus for supervising commodities at the Ministry of Commerce, Faisal Al-Ansari, pointed out that work continues to monitor prices especially during the blessed month of Ramadan.