Submitted on Saturday 21st March 2020
Rejected on Tuesday 31st March 2020
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)
Pass legislation to stop hike of prices of food and groceries during pandemic
Pass a legislation banning people to raise prices and put penalties or imprisonment on those who do
High street Shopkeepers are hiking prices of consumables, meat and groceries and profiting during the pandemic. People have also started to sell things that they have bought from supermarkets e.g hand sanitizer and started selling them at higher prices on ebay and amazon.
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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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