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08/07/2016
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Rio Water Planet can be fined up to R$ 9 million Photo: Disclosure
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The State Procon fined Rio Water Planet Park by searching bags and backpacks of visitors in order to prevent them from entering with food and drink. The assessment was made because of complaints that contained the Book of Complaints of the establishment.
The Water Planet Rio is within 15 working days from receipt of the notification to present a defense. If the deadline is not met or the arguments are not supported by the legal department of the State Procon, the establishment can be fined, and the maximum amount provided by the Consumer Protection Code comes to around R$ 9 million. In February this year, another organ and consumer, the Carioca Procon, had fined the water park at R$ 95,000 because of the practice.
According to the State Procon, magazines bags and backpacks are a Water Planet Rio strategy to make a tying, or force the purchase of a product or service to purchase another product or service. This is because, as visitors spend many hours in the park, they end up forced to consume the products sold there.
Married sale is prohibited by the Consumer Protection Code. (CDC). In the assessment, the Procon points out that some people have dietary restrictions can not eat products sold in the park, and also highlights a recent decision of the Superior Court of Justice (STJ), which considered abusive to ban customers take food and branches to drink a network cinemas.
Source: Extra
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