County on the lookout for price-gouging

September

Inspectors from the county’s Office of Consumer Protection have been visiting local retailers looking for evidence of price-gouging on kosher products in advance of Rosh Hashana next week.

“We’ve done this for both the High Holy days and around the Passover season,” Director Terry Grosselfinger said today.

While there’s been no evidence of such price gouging in Rockland, he said, it has been found in other parts of New York.

The county’s inspectors starting recording prices the last week in August and will compare them to next week’s prices on the same products.

Grosselfinger said the inspectors do take note of wholesale price differences, so that if the wholesaler has been gouging the retailers, Rockland officials can notify the appropriate agency.

Consumers can report price gouging to the Rockland County Office of Consumer Protection at 845-708-7600.

This entry was posted on Friday, September 7th, 2007 at 1:16 pm by Sarah Netter. Print | Email

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