The Consumer Council of Fiji said people should move away from the culture of one-stop shopping in order to save on some non-price control items.
Chief Executive, Premila Kumar said only competition between traders controls prices of non-control items however consumers can only benefit by shopping around.
The Prices and Incomes Board said supermarkets are putting unlimited markup on non-price control items as it does not come under PIB's jurisdiction to put price control.
Acting secretary, Lucy Naimawi said they are only confined to price control items.
Non-control items include chocolates of all types, cereals including wheat-bix, snacks and imported potato chips.
Some supermarket managers we spoke to said prices of non-controlled items are decided on maximum of 30% markup and minimum of 20%. They say they have to do market survey so that their items are not expensive than the market price and at the same time attractive to consumers. For price control items they can only put a markup of 10%.
Move away from one-stop shopping
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