Chiang Mai Will Monitor Goods And Services Prices During Ratchapreuk 2006

[Jai Dee]

Chiang Mai will monitor goods and services prices during Ratchapreuk 2006

Chiang Mai Governor Suwat Tantipipat (นายสุวัฒน์ ตันติพัฒน์) presided over ceremony to dispatch patrol officers to check on the prices of goods and services during the Royal Flora Ratchapreuk 2006. They will prevent visitors from buying unreasonable priced goods and services. The province will campaign against cheating vendors to create a good image to Thailand.

Chiang Mai has ordered local vendors to attach price labels to their products or clearly tell the customers of their services’ prices as stated in the law about commodity and service prices. The campaign is effective from today onwards.

In patrolling the local shops, the province has asked for collaboration from the Department of Internal Trade to set up a central mobile unit to help the local commerce officials in making sure that the vendors comply with the law.

Source: Thai National News Bureau Public Relations Department - 16 October 2006

[Cyberstar]

Chiang Mai has ordered local vendors to attach price labels to their products or clearly tell the customers of their services’ prices as stated in the law about commodity and service prices ...

Does that mean there actually is a law that requires vendors to publice prices? ... Well, both a surprize and not a surprize ... There probably is a law against everything, ready to be drawn up from the dust and inforced in any given circumstance ...

[Foggy Bottom]

Thaksin introduced a law in 2001 / 2002 (?) that everything for sale in any outlet had to have the price clearly displayed in a way that would be readable by both Thais and Foreigners.

There was then a "clampdown" on gold and gem stores who also had to show the Buy-back prices as well, but no clamp down on places like markets, IT plazas, night bazaars etc - the very places that needed it most.

Consequently, huge swathes of Thailand's retail trades never applied wht they were supposed to do by law.

Gaz