KUWAIT CITY, Aug 18: Chairperson of the Union of Consumer Cooperative Societies Maryam Al-Awad issued three circulars addressed to all cooperative societies. These circulars include clear instructions aimed at protecting consumers, supporting national products and ensuring quality services. The first circular stipulates the need to maintain the cleanliness of gas cylinders. Branch managers are mandated not to receive cylinders from the Kuwait Oil Tanker Company (KOTC) if they are dirty or old, and to ensure that they are distributed to citizens in good and clean condition. This is due to the large number of complaints from citizens about the cleanliness of cylinders. The second circular emphasizes the importance of displaying national products by allocating prominent spaces for them in the central markets of cooperatives and allocating appropriate spaces for their display and clear advertising on the front shelves to support national products. The third circular obligates cooperatives to price all food and consumer goods in an organized and clear manner on the shelves to maintain uniform prices, given the large number of complaints from citizens and shareholders frequenting cooperatives that some goods do not have price labels. The union affirmed that these circulars are under the directive of Minister of Social, Family and Childhood Affairs Dr. Amthal Al-Huwailah; in continuation of the minister’s supervisory and cooperative role in developing work in cooperatives, which will positively impact community service and safeguard consumer rights.

By Fares Ghaleb
Al-Seyassah/Arab Times Staff