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To prevent change in candy, law requires Ouro Fino trade plate

03/20/2015

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Every establishment will have to have paragraph of legislation visible to customers.
By law, merchant who do not have change have to reduce price of the product.

A habit is part of life for many consumers: to make the purchase, when receiving the change, cash offers mints or chewing gum to "cover" the pennies that should be returned to customers. The Consumer Protection Code already prohibits this practice, but in Ouro Fino (MG), a law came into force to prevent such abuses from happening. The legislation must be visible in shops for the customer to claim their right.

The bill, approved by the City Council and signed by the mayor in October last year, came into effect recently in the city. Every establishment must have the second paragraph of the printed law, which says: "traders who do not have change in cash will have to reduce the price of the product until the change can be returned." The plate must be visible, at least 30 inches high and 40 wide. Failure generates fines of R $ 854 to R $ 8,542.

"The primary function of the board is to give knowledge that the person can, through this knowledge, make them fulfill their rights," said Councilman Bruno Zucareli (SDD), who had the idea of drawing up the bill.

The residents approved the measure. "The five cents sometimes they return, but a penny we never see back 'right'," said the customer to supermarket, Maria de Oliveira. The insurance broker Luiz Ricardo Barros Lemes agree with the warning, but says that the customer has to demand change. "Consumers have to charge, but also will not solve [the law]."

To prevent change in bullets, law requires Ouro Fino trade plate (Photo: Playback EPTV)
The lawyer specializing in consumer law, Valder Neidson Gomes explains that the law already existed, but according to him, the board may direct the consumer and teach you how to demand their rights. "The Consumer Protection Code establishes the trader or the service provider, establishing the values of their products or services in order to facilitate the change. But [the board] is a way to also raise awareness of their rights. "

In a clothing store in the city, the notice was placed near the box and the manager confirms, with the card, customers began to demand the change. "Many customers ask for a penny of return, three cents, always ask their right," says Edilaine Souza.

"We also have to seek it, the consumer's right. Our associates, certainly, will suit [the law] and I do not see major problems for it not," added the president of Ouro Fino of Commerce, José Peres Robero
Filho.



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