Carrefour warned after Ramadan price hikes

PRICE HIKE: Carrefour in Ajman has been found guilty of increasing some food prices during Ramadan. (Getty Images)

Bosses at Carrefour hypermarket in Ajman have come under fire after inspectors found prices of some foods had been inflation during Ramadan, in violation of an agreement with the government.

The store was found to have increased prices of several basic foods, including chicken, during the holy month, Dr Hashim al Nuaimi, the director of the department of consumer protection at the Ministry of Economy, said.

“We have signed a memorandum of understanding with Carrefour, and its top managers signed it to maintain a set price; we’re surprised to see these violations,” he told UAE daily The National on Thursday.

Dr Nuaimi warned Carrefour to immediately restore the prices that it had agreed to, or the government would take action.

The inspection was part of a wider initiative to stop stores from artificially inflating prices during Ramadan. The inspectors have also visited the emirate’s fruit and vegetable markets, Lulu Centre, and other major outlets.

Dr Hashim said the fruit and vegetable markets had notably made good progress in adhering to government-set prices.

Sheikh Sultan al Nuaimi, the director of the Ministry of Economy office in Ajman, added that his office was following consumer prices in the emirate on a daily basis.

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READERS' COMMENTS

Carrefour & Jumbo both cheated me on my LCD TV
Posted by Nick Smith, Abu dhabi on Friday 19 September 2008 at 23:45 UAE time

I had the same experience sorry to say the only difference is that i have a defective LCD at home and both Carrefour & Jumbo cant fix it as they say i brought during a discount scheme.

Shame on you Carrefour
Posted by Mazhar Mohad on Thursday 18 September 2008 at 10:31 UAE time

Irresponsible. Greedy. Very bad.

Carrefour is not reliable
Posted by Raj, Dubai, UAe on Thursday 18 September 2008 at 10:09 UAE time


Recently, my colleague brought a laptop worth approx AED 3500, which says 3gb ram at the display piece, but after coming home she realized that it is indeed 2gb only, what a cheating and imagine what when they went back to inquire they were told by Carrefour staff that it was by mistake written as 3 gb at the display piece and the price is as such and can be inquired anywhere in the market, which is not the case. On the first hand, how can such a mistake roll in?

However they compensated for the remaining money though, but that trust is gone. But just image a person who is not tech savy and just brought it to use w/o further checking on it....?

Even I faced such situation in Jumbo when I went to purchase Nokia music express. When I inquired about the features, they say the info at display piece is printed by mistake. As I was not pretty sure about the features, I didnt buy one though.

Print mistakes seems to be a common thing or is it done genuinely to mislead the customers?

Whatever the strategy is, it is the people who will be losing their money or are not getting things worth it.

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