Major Doha supermarkets issued Ramadan price list

Qatar officials have issued a price list for 105 food items which they say should not increase during the holy month of Ramadan.

The list, compiled by the Consumer Protection Department, has been issued to 10 major shopping outlets, including Carrefour and Mega Mart, across Doha, according to a report in the Peninsula.

Food items included on the price guide are rice, wheat flour, oil, eggs, butter and fresh milk.?All these products are fast-moving and it is clear from the list supplied to us that the ministry has done tremendous research on what food items are of mass use,? a spokesman from the Family Food Center (FFC told the paper.

?Our management has, for example, decided to sell these items cost-to-cost and add some more products on our own,? he added.

The 10 shopping outlets which have been given the price list are; Carrefour, Lulu, Family Food Center, Giant Stores, Mega Mart, Dasman, Safari, Al Safeer, Duhail Shopping Complex and the Al Meera chain of cooperatives.

Retailers do not have to follow the price guide by law, but have agreed not to raise the prices of essential commodities during the fasting month, the paper said.