The Commerce Ministry on Monday set up war rooms to closely monitor and supervise essential consumer goods and services sectors to curb price gouging nationwide while denying requests from the private sector to raise carbonated drink prices.
Chicken raisers and producers who met with the Internal Trade Department also yesterday agreed to freeze chicken prices until the situation improves, but asked for the government to help subsidise production costs.
According to Boonyarit Kalayanamit, commerce permanent-secretary, the war rooms chaired by himself will be tasked with following up and tackling high prices, especially of products and taking legal action against merchants who take advantage of consumers by raising prices unfairly.
