PETALING JAYA: The price-cut campaign aimed at fresh foods and essential items continues with Mydin and The Store being the latest to slash prices.
“To encourage spending, the prices must be appropriate and manufacturers too have to play their part,” said Domestic Trade and Consumer Affairs Minister Datuk Shahrir Sam-ad who launched the campaigns separately at the companies yesterday.
He added that his ministry realised there was a time lag from the moment the prices of raw material prices were reduced to the lowering of prices in goods in the market.
The minister said he would like to see reductions in prices of items in rural areas as well.
“We have found that the prices of goods in rural areas tend to be a little higher than urban areas. This of course is due to the high purchasing power of urbanites that drives demand which then lowers prices.”
Shahrir said pilot projects carried out in Seberang Prai and Pekan, where the cost of transportation was paid by the government, resulted in cheaper prices for essential items.
Mydin, in its price cut campaign, will reduce prices of 200 items including vegetables, fish, chicken and meat at all its outlets for a period of two weeks.
Prices of dry food and health products will be reduced for a month.
The Store will be reducing prices of 1,500 items at 87 of its outlets, as well as in Pacific and Milimewa stores, also owned by the company.
Sauce from : http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2008/11/7/nation/2486148&sec=nation
Sunday November 9, 2008
We got eye to see
We got ear to hear
We got nose to smell
We got brain to think
And we know how to judge
YES is CHEAPER than The HARGA RUNCIT but Not CHEAPER than The PREVIOUS PRICE.
