Basic Food Items News Today

The Ministry of Commerce, Industry and Labour (M.C.I.L.) is urging customers to report or advise the ministry if the prices of any purchased goods have exceeded the maximum prices stipulated by the Price Order. Wholesalers and retailers dealing in general merchandise within the country were once ...

Hungary has imposed mandatory price cuts, Portugal scrapped value added tax on essential food

The Competition Commission says consumers have been subjected to unjustified price increases of sunflower oil, white and brown bread, as well as opportunistic price increases in maize meal over a two-year period.

A local NGO monitoring food security says consumers are going to have to dig deeper into their pockets as the costs of basic food items continue to rise.

BUKIT MERTAJAM: Consumers will be able to purchase four basic food items – chicken, eggs, sawi (choy sum) and long beans – at a lower price from Saturday (Jan 1) until Feb 4.