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Sudden profiteering on goods should be prosecutable during public emergencies.

Submitted on Friday 20th March 2020

Rejected on Tuesday 31st March 2020

Current status: Rejected

Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)

Petition Action

Sudden profiteering on goods should be prosecutable during public emergencies.

Petition Details

Make a law to stop retailers/people bulk buying and and selling essential good massively inflated prices.

Additional Information

This is a hard enough and unprecedented time. I have witnessed pensioners crying and sitting on the floor, pregnant lady's been pushed out of the way and family members distraught at been unable to buy food to feed their families.


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This petition was rejected

The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:

There's already a petition about this issue. We cannot accept a new petition when we already have one about a very similar issue.

You are more likely to get action on this issue if you sign and share a single petition.

You may wish to sign this petition calling for the same action: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/303070

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