Major retailers have agreed to freeze prices for social products – Kommersant

                             
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Retail Companies Association (ACORT) sent to the Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS) of the draft agreement fixing prices for socially important products, the newspaper “Vedomosti”, with reference to the participants prepare a document. In ACORT includes chain stores “Magnit» X5 Retail Group, «Auchan”, “Dixie», Metro Cash & amp; Carry, «Tape”, “Bill”, “ABC taste” and others. According to the publication, as soon as the government approved the project, the price freeze for two months.

The draft agreement is no hard list of products for which prices are fixed. “Networks prompted to start from the list of socially important goods and independently form Basket” – said an employee of one of the retail companies.

For more information about the feasibility of the introduction of state regulation of prices for socially important products read the material “b” “The authorities are traded with retailers.”