Markets that unreasonably raise prices and do not comply with sanitary requirements will be closed. The city mayor Murat Aitenov said abou this during today's visit to wholesale markets.
The head of the city visited the market "Zhibek Zholy", where he met with sellers, and personally asked buyers about prices. It should be noted that in recent days there has been a decrease in food prices by 30-40 tenge in this wholesale market. This is confirmed by both sellers and buyers. In particular, potatoes are sold here from 60 to 130 tenge per kilogram, onions - from 60 to 90 tenge, carrots-40-100 tenge, cabbage – 45-90 per kilogram, beets-70-100, radish-45-80.
A significant decrease in prices is also observed in the wholesale market "Kazybek". For example, local cucumbers are now sold there for 350 tenge.The mayor listened to the requests of market visitors and explained that the city is working to stabilize prices. He stated that the administration of those markets who lowers prices when the monitoring groups visits the market and then raises them would be punished.
M. Aitenov urged entrepreneurs not to speculate on such a difficult situation and to take care of people.
The head of the city inspected the trading rows of markets and inspected the work of canteens on their territory. He instructed to speed up the elimination of all shortcomings and notified that otherwise the markets will be closed.