Bacolod City – The Department of Trade and Industry reported recently that only two supermarkets in Bacolod City are selling sugar at ₱ 70 per kilo.
Based on their monitoring on Friday last week, Romel Amihan, head of the DTI Consumer Protection Unit, yesterday disclosed that only SM Supermarket is selling washed sugar at ₱ 70 per kilo, with refined sugar from ₱ 92 to ₱ 106 per kilo, depending on the brand.
Amihan also reported that the Puregold Supermarket also sells refined sugar at ₱ 70 per kilo. But it was already out of stock when they visited the concerned supermarket.
Puregold, he added, also sells washed sugar at ₱ 78 per kilo.
Amihan also said that they were told by the management of Robinsons Supermarket that they are only implementing the ₱ 70 per kilo of sugar in their branches in the National Capital Region.
President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. earlier got the commitment of major supermarkets in the country to bring down the price of sugar to ₱ 70 per kilo.
The owners of SM Supermarket, Robinsons, S&R and Puregold committed to heed the call of the President to make sugar accessible to the public. (Gilbert Bayoran via The Visayan Daily Star (TVDS), photo courtesy of TVDS)