Mexico Metropolis. Federal Shopper Legal professional David Aguilar Romero urged suppliers in Quintana Roo and Yucatan to not improve product costs unjustifiably, nor to hoard or speculate within the face of the emergency brought on by the arrival of Hurricane Beryl.
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In an announcement, the company reported that brigades from the company are finishing up preventive operations to make sure compliance with the provisions of Article 10 BIS of the Federal Shopper Safety Legislation (LFPC), which states that suppliers could not unjustifiably improve costs as a result of pure phenomena, meteorological occasions or well being contingencies.
Profeco’s brigades of belief defenders have been deployed within the municipalities of Benito Juárez (Cancún), Solidaridad, Playa del Carmen, Cozumel and Chetumal, in Quintana Roo; in addition to in Mérida within the state of Yucatán.
“In these municipalities, monitoring is carried out in institutions that promote primary merchandise and building supplies; that is executed with the purpose of making certain that suppliers don’t improve costs in an unjustified method, or that there’s a hoarding of merchandise,” he stated.
These monitoring operations, carried out since final Tuesday, resulted in 15 verification visits for not displaying costs, in 4 institutions, positioned in Cancun, precautionary measures had been imposed, together with self-service shops, shops specializing in residence merchandise and wooden gross sales.
He warned that suppliers who commit abuses might obtain fines between 30 thousand and 70 thousand pesos.
Likewise, Profeco stated, it monitored and confirmed that there’s a provide of primary foodstuffs – bottled water, canned meals -, medicines, building supplies, electrical turbines, hygiene objects, amongst others.
“Along with the above, there may be protection on the worldwide airports of Cancun and ‘Felipe Carillo Puerto’ in Tulum, the place there are customer support modules which have up to now suggested greater than 250 shoppers,” he stated.
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– 2024-07-10 23:45:53
