{"id":22602,"date":"2023-04-07T14:42:35","date_gmt":"2023-04-07T14:42:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.meretailnews.com\/?p=22602"},"modified":"2023-04-07T16:14:16","modified_gmt":"2023-04-07T16:14:16","slug":"saudi-ministry-of-commerce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.meretailnews.com\/2023\/04\/07\/saudi-ministry-of-commerce\/","title":{"rendered":"Saudi Ministry of Commerce exposes fraudulent discount offers by stores during Ramadan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- VideographyWP Plugin Message: Automatic video embedding prevented by plugin options. --><br \/>\n<span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mc.gov.sa\/en\/mediacenter\/News\/Pages\/13-03-22-01.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Saudi Ministry of Commerce<\/a> has revealed several frauds and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.meretailnews.com\/2023\/03\/24\/sfda-seizes-ramadan-food-items\/\">violations<\/a> by stores in offering discounts during the holy month of Ramadan.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">The news comes after field tours of different facilities to verify the reliability of discount offers to protect consumer rights.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">In a video published through its official account on Twitter, the ministry exposed the most prominent violation related to discounts which featured a store announcing discounts ranging from 25-40 per cent, which does not match with the obtained permit that stipulated discounts of only 10-50 per cent.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">The ministry said that there are also stores that announce discounts without obtaining a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.meretailnews.com\/2023\/03\/24\/permits-needed-to-run-online-ramadan-discounts-in-saudi-arabia\/\">permit<\/a> allowing them to do so.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>On March 23, the ministry launched the facility enabling commercial establishments to issue permits electronically for the Ramadan discounts season til April 21.<\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">The tasks of the field teams affiliated with the Ministry start from monitoring the commercial discount requests as soon as merchants submit requests for permits via the Ministry&#8217;s website.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">The discount permits are characterised by features such as clarifying the time and dates of the sales as well as the permit number and the percentage of promotion.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">As for any store that announces a discount without obtaining a permit, the ministry will summon its owner to complete the regulatory procedures because it is considered a commercial violation.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Ministry of Commerce of Saudi Arabia has exposed several frauds and violations by stores that offer discounts<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":21635,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[3946,2683],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meretailnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22602"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meretailnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meretailnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meretailnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meretailnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22602"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.meretailnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22602\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22604,"href":"https:\/\/www.meretailnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22602\/revisions\/22604"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meretailnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21635"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meretailnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meretailnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meretailnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}