After the Government and representatives of the retail supply trade yesterday signed the “Pact for Fair Prices” that will cover 93 associations, merchants called on President Luis Abinader so that said agreement does not remain only in press publications.
“Hopefully it works and it is not like always, that only one thing is said in the news for the people and in the end it does not favor anything, because everyone takes it for their own benefit and they keep prices the same”assured a seller of the Livestock Fair market.
Others understand that the Government He had to talk with the field workers to find out the situation of the products and the prices at the national level.
Yesterday, Luis Abinader and the executive director of the National Institute of Consumer Rights (proconsumer), Eddy Alcántara, agreed at the National Palace on retail prices.
The goal is to facilitate access to basic basket products at competitive prices, creating intervention mechanisms for the production, distribution, marketing and financing chains.
The agreement was signed by Proconsumidor and the Federation of Merchants, Supermarkets and Retailers and was signed by the president Luis Abinaderthe director of Pro Consumer, Eddy Alcantara together with representatives of Federations and Associations of Retail Trade in an act in the Las Cariátides room of the National Palace.
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“When these agreements are signed, we can see how a society has the ability to understand each other so that even in the most difficult times of price instability like the ones we are experiencing, we can have the best results,” said President Abinader.
highlighted the social and human sense of this action, because “in times of great instability, it is up to merchants, especially retailers, to act responsibly so as not to affect the purchasing power of families.”
