Guangdong: The Salt Rush Is Fading Away And The "Salt Regressive Race" Appears.

Rush to buy

The wind lasted for only two days and sold for a month.

The "salt rush" is fading away.

With a number of relevant departments coming out to dispel rumors, the 18 day "rumor salt" gradually dispersed.

Statistics Guangzhou sold salt 1000 tons the day before yesterday

"As of 18 p.m. 5 p.m., real-time monitoring in all parts of the province showed that the supply of salt at the 21 level to the public market was all restored to normal, and the salt rush storm was declared to be subsided."

Feng Qiming, a spokesman for the Guangdong salt bureau, said in an interview with reporters: "from 16 o'clock at 2 o'clock in the afternoon, 18 days after the end of the salt rush to buy the wind, although only lasted for two days, but sold the usual one month sales volume.

For example, in Guangzhou, the sales volume on the 17 day was as high as 1000 tons, while in normal days, Guangzhou sold 180-200 tons of salt.

According to our monitoring report, the first single salt rush took place in Maoming at 16 p.m. 2 p.m., then spread rapidly from a supermarket to a region and then "infect" it to Yangjiang next door. At about 6 p.m., there was a salt rush to buy the wind in the 1/3 area of the whole province. At about 9 o'clock that evening, the panic buying spread to the 2/3 area of the province, and the speed of spread was amazing.

Among them, Guangzhou and Shenzhen, the two most populous cities, eat the most salt. "

Quell "unexpected fast"

Reporters visited the market on the 18 day also saw that although many supermarkets in the morning supply of salt has been restored to normal, but at noon, there are still a small number of people in several packets of bags to buy salt.

Until late in the evening, the salt shelves of several supermarkets were re stocking.

At the Mart store in the East pass, the salt supply returned to normal early in the morning. The price was 1.5 yuan a pack. At noon, many people were still buying it. The salesman took a pile of salt from the box and put it on the shelf.

An old couple who bought two packs of salt said, "the salt in the house was eaten yesterday, so it can't be bought anywhere, only soy sauce."

Compared with the 3 salt rush buying cases in Guangdong since SARS, this rush buying wind lasted for a short time, "faster than we expected."

Feng Qiming said, this is because the government attaches great importance to "16 a night we reported, emergency response office immediately sent text messages to the public, warned that we should not panic, do not listen to and spread rumors"; second, the media's publicity and guidance is also very critical; third, the fundamentals of salt industry is very good, last year, the national salt industry capacity reached 80 million tons, but the demand was only 8 million tons, "Guangdong is not lack of salt, the whole country is not short of salt, the world is not short of salt."

In addition, the people of Guangdong have had strong psychological immunity after many times of salt rush, and the number of people buying salt is still very small.

Episode salt bought more, rejected returns

Reporters learned from the Guangdong Provincial Price Bureau on the evening of 18, from the evening of March 16th to the deadline, the provincial Price Bureau has received 420 complaints about the rush to buy salt, salt prices skyrocketing and bundling sales.

In this regard, the price department of the province carried out a thorough inspection of the salt market price, and resolutely cracked down on illegal activities such as rumors, people's mischief, malicious hoarding, driving up prices and disrupting the market. Under the circumstances of the fact that the facts were untrue, the administrative penalty was fined 50 to 1000 yuan for 13 illegal cases on the spot according to the summary procedure.

But the relevant people of Guangzhou Price Bureau also said: "although many people complained that some" ghosts "and individual operators took the opportunity to raise prices randomly, they sold 1.30 yuan / bag of salt to 5 yuan to 10 yuan / bag, but when we checked, they failed to obtain evidence of illegal facts, which brought difficulties to the investigation.

And after 18 days of salt rush to calm down, the price department's 12358 price complaint telephone has ushered in a new wave of complaints -- many of those who grabbed many salt in the two days, after knowing that the snap buying was useless, they took back to the sales point and asked for a return. After being refused, they called the price department to complain. "One person bought more than 10 boxes, and the store was determined not to give up."

Part of the supermarket can be refunded.

After rush to buy salt, do you want to return? Facing the group of consumers, should dealers return the goods? Zhou Xianjun, a partner and director of the Guangdong encyclopedia law firm, and a member of the Yuexiu District CPPCC Committee, said: "this kind of buying and selling behavior of consumers and businesses is a voluntary trading relationship.

If it is not for a legitimate reason to return goods (such as product quality and other consumer rights and interests protection law stipulates that the business needs to be responsible for the reasons), it is a breach of contract, businesses can not return.

Consumers have bought a lot of salt because they heard rumors of society, and they are not force majeure.

Therefore, it is suggested that consumers should think twice before making such behavior, do not listen to rumors any more, but bring more trouble to themselves.

Yangcheng Evening News reporter also found that although some supermarkets have 7 days after the sale of goods can be no reason to return the provisions, but generally do not operate on food.

A large supermarket official told reporters: "state related laws and regulations, the return of food is very strict, for fear of poisoning and other problems, unless it is quality problems, otherwise no return, so the supermarket after this purchase salt tide is also not accept returns."

However, reporters from some large supermarkets in Guangzhou still know that consumers with relevant supermarket tickets and good salt packaging really need to return, and supermarkets will accept returns.