DIT keeping close eye on Chinese New Year's goods prices



Bangkok, 5 February 2016 (NNT) – The Department of Internal Trade (DIT) has dispatched agents to inspect the price of goods used in Chinese New Year’s celebrations to ensure retailers are selling them at standard prices.

DIT Director-General, Wiboonlak Ruamraksa, revealed after inspecting goods in the Yaowarat area that sales of Chinese New Year’s goods have begun to pick up as the holiday draws near.

She pointed out prices of related goods have overall remained the same from last year with whole chickens being sold at 65-80 baht, pork at 130-145 baht per kilogram and dry items such as mushrooms and noodles maintaining their usual prices.

Previously heightened goods, such as fruits and vegetables have had their prices shifted down slightly after cool weather pushed out more supply. Nonetheless, Thai fruits such as oranges and bananas are still being sold at 5-10 baht more per kilogram than last year.

Wiboonlak assured that the DIT is keeping a close eye on pricing to ensure fairness for consumers and gave her view that most prices would move according to market mechanisms once the holiday has passed.

Overall, the DIT head explained that consumer goods have become cheaper due to the falling price of fuel. Up to 13 product types, spanning 120 items, have seen their prices cut. Downward movement of the LPG price has allowed for prepared food prices to shift down 10-14 satang and prompted the DIT to target adding 4,600 food sellers to its low cost food project.


-- NNT 2016-02-05

sometimes i am forced to go into my local Tesco Lotus Express and I see four red "fresh" (but not really) apples wrapped in plastic. they sell for 52-57 baht. A few days later the same apples are selling for 43 baht. Maybe if they sold the apples for 43 baht in the first place, they could make some money, instead of feeding them to the frickin' monkeys.

in fact the local Thai people climb the hill here to feed the monkeys piles of all sorts of expired food. that's nice of them. guess what the lucky monkeys sometimes get?

Apples.

Edited February 5, 201610 yr by NCC1701A

"The Department of Internal Trade (DIT) has dispatched agents to inspect the price of goods used in Chinese New Year’s celebrations to ensure retailers are selling them at standard prices."

Or handing out the standard tea money.