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Dischem disregaring court ruling
Dischem was fined a few month's ago for increasing their prices on masks, sanitary ware people need to protect themselves against the CORONA 19 virus. I think it was a R 2 000 000 fine as far as I can remember. My wife has shares in Dischem an at the time, I was annoyed because it one way of loosing share price. Me and my wife went to Dischem on 17 July 2020 to buy some stuff and she bought a packet of 10 masks of 3 ply face mask for R 170.00 a packet. I thought it will be around 20 masks for that price, nowhere on the package can you find how many masks is in there. In the car my wife opened the package and find only 10 masks in there. She looked at the price to find another price tag underneath the one showing R 170.00. It showed a price of R 89.95. In other words a price increase of 188.99 %. Almost a 200% increase. Now my question is this, 1. Did they not adhere to the court ruling and stern warning given to them by the Judge? 2. Does this not blatantly disregarding the court ruling, resulting in a even bigger fine or even Imprisonment? 2. The first price on the packet was only R 89.95 already including a profit made when pricing the product then? 3. What was the reason for the price hike of almost 190% ? It could definitely not be their defense stating clearly they had to increase because of demand in the market, resulting in substantially higher prices buying it from their suppliers. That wat their court documents said? 4. If their was a remorse from their side, why is the prices still so high?
I think Dischem has some answering to do. Clearly they have disregarded the court,s ruling.
