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Dumisani Nsingo, Senior Business Reporter
THE Grain Millers Association of Zimbabwe (GMAZ) has vowed to stop supplies to all shops which will be found liable of overcharging basic commodities.
In an interview after overseeing a price monitoring exercise in Bulawayo, GMAZ ethics and compliance committee chairperson Mr Alvin Muparutsa who was accompanied by the organisation’s vice-chair, Mr Masimba Dzomba said failure by retailers to adhere to the recommended pricing model agreed between the two parties would culminate in the blacklisting of offending shops.
“I will reiterate that when we receive a report that there is a certain retailer who is over charging we engage their association, which is the Confederation of Zimbabwe Retailers to ask them to talk to their member in order to comply with what we will have agreed upon in the Memorandum of Understanding that we signed with them. Failure for them to comply whoever, the retailers, we will then force GMAZ or its members to withdraw supplies to that particular shop,” he said.
GMAZ manufactures and supplies basics such as mealie-meal, flour, salt, samp and rice. Mr Muparutsa said the association was in the process of compiling information gathered by its monitoring teams countrywide.
“We are in the process of compiling information as we speak. We are not sure of when the price monitors will be pulled out. At the moment we have extended the exercise up to about 15 July because we still have a lot of ground to cover,” he said.
Mr Muparutsa, however, said most of the shops were sticking to the recommended prices.
“Most of the shops we visit were complying on most of the products that we are supplying to them. They are complying with the recommended prices that we have agreed upon and in some cases the prices are even lower than the recommended prices,” he said.
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