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Women's dress shops in RAK fined for hiking prices over holiday periods
Inspectors from the Department of Economic Development have fined a number of women's dress and embroidery shops and tailors for failing to stick to official price lists.
- By Nasouh Nazzal, Staff Reporter
- Published: 23:24 November 28, 2008
Ras Al Khaimah: Inspectors from the Department of Economic Development have fined a number of women's dress and embroidery shops and tailors for failing to stick to official price lists.
The department distributed detailed price lists to shops last June and July, with instructions to maintain them or risk heavy fines.
Shaikha Hussain Al Ali, who heads the Customer Protection and Intellectual Property Section at the Department, said that the initial inspections of the shops concluded that they were not sticking to the price lists.
Broken promises
She added that at that time the owners of the shops were given official warnings and they were instructed to sign official pledges to honour the official price lists.
With the written pledges, the Department assumed that the shop owners would stick to the price lists, but that never happened.
With the fall of Eid Al Adha, the Department noticed a sharp hike in the price of women's dresses and charges for tailoring, when they dispatched inspectors to scan the market.
Shaikha stressed that feedback from the inspectors showed that these shops did not abide by the price lists, and the inspectors were instructed to impose heavy fines on the violators, warning them that their shops will be shut down should they commit the same violations again.
She added that the work of her section oversees the direct implementation of Federal Law No 24 of the year 2006, protecting customers and maintaining the stability of the markets.
She also stressed that the Department will tackle the greed of such traders who abuse national and religious occasions, believing that they can maximise their profits from customers at such times.
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