Brendan Burgess
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Fair play to the politicians for standing up to the supermarkets.
Pearse Doherty today called on the supermarkets not to charge any of their customers for their shopping for six months. In particular, he called on the government to direct the state owned supermarkets not to charge customers. Charging them for their groceries was like imposing a Covid penalty on them.
David Hall of the Irish Supermarket Customers Organisation agreed saying that it was ridiculous that supermarkets would charge customers during this time.
The Taoiseach Micheal Martin said he was very concerned to hear that the supermarkets were charging customers and he had asked the responsible minister to meet with the owners of the supermarkets to let them know of the government's dissatisfaction with it.
The Labour Party has introduced a motion in the Dáil to demand that the government take action on the matter. The European Commission has made it clear that there is no obligation on supermarkets to charge their customers. It was a decision for each individual supermarket whether to charge customers for their purchases or not.
Brendan
Pearse Doherty today called on the supermarkets not to charge any of their customers for their shopping for six months. In particular, he called on the government to direct the state owned supermarkets not to charge customers. Charging them for their groceries was like imposing a Covid penalty on them.
David Hall of the Irish Supermarket Customers Organisation agreed saying that it was ridiculous that supermarkets would charge customers during this time.
The Taoiseach Micheal Martin said he was very concerned to hear that the supermarkets were charging customers and he had asked the responsible minister to meet with the owners of the supermarkets to let them know of the government's dissatisfaction with it.
The Labour Party has introduced a motion in the Dáil to demand that the government take action on the matter. The European Commission has made it clear that there is no obligation on supermarkets to charge their customers. It was a decision for each individual supermarket whether to charge customers for their purchases or not.
Brendan