Guangxi Clean Up And Clean Up Large Retail Enterprises Illegal Fees

Recently, the reporter learned from the Guangxi price supervision and inspection bureau that from March to June, the 6 departments of the autonomous region commerce department, Price Bureau, public security department, National Tax Bureau, Local Taxation Bureau and the Administration for Industry and Commerce will jointly carry out the rectification and rectification of large retail enterprises' illegal charging work to suppliers in order to maintain market order and fair trade and promote the healthy development of the retail industry in our region.

Regulation: retailers can only receive promotional service fees.

"The contract fee is several thousand yuan, and the festival fee ranges from 100 yuan to several thousand yuan. The new product will charge a 50~100 yuan bar code fee according to its collection." Miss Huang talked about all kinds of expenses that she was apportioned to a large department store in Nanning. According to her introduction, the annual fee charged by the shopping mall to her is about 30% of the turnover, so she has to pay about 80 thousand yuan a year for that purpose. Some of her big stores in the same store. clothing The annual cost of the brand to retailers is as high as 200 thousand ~30 yuan. Entry fees, contract fees, festival fees, unconditional rebates, membership points and other expenses have become industry The usual practice is that suppliers are angry. If the membership rebate and unconditional rebate fee is charged by 1% of the sales amount, credit card charges different charges according to different credit cards, such as the UnionPay card charges 1 points of total consumption, and the VISA card receives 4 points.

In addition to large department stores Market Supermarket stores also charge entry fees, barcode fees and festival fees to suppliers. Ms. Lee, who was engaged in marketing in a kitchen appliance company in Nanning, revealed some industry's "hidden rules" to reporters. Ms. Li said, with its company acting as a pressure cooker that just entered the Guangxi market, for example, to enter a large supermarket, a store's entrance fee is about ten thousand yuan, and must be stationed in the 7 stores in Nanning city. Every year, several main festivals will be charged to the suppliers in the name of sponsorship fee to the suppliers. The activities of the shopping mall will be promoted according to the bar code, and each bar code is 50~100 yuan in general. 500~800 "If this pressure cooker has a new product, then the bar code will charge 150 yuan for each style." Ms. Lee revealed that even every product has a yearly renewal fee of around 1000 yuan.

"The entry fees of different commodities are different." Miss Huang said that the entrance fees for some domestic and international brands are very low, because shopping centres are eager to introduce large brands; the entry fees for small and medium-sized brands are relatively average; while some of the newly established brands are eager to start their fame, shopping in shopping malls is one of the best ways, so their entry fees are high.

Rectification: six major illegal fees are prohibited.

It is understood that the object of this rectification is mainly to take advantage of the market position, to the supermarket, department stores, electrical professional stores and other subordinate stores. Retailers mainly refer to enterprises (groups) that satisfy the following conditions: first, the largest single store has an area of more than 5000 square meters (two); the two is the number of stores (10), and three is the sales volume of more than 1 billion yuan (inclusive) in 2010.

It should be noted that according to this regulation, there are not many large businesses in Guangxi that meet the requirements for cleaning up and rectification, only about 4. Therefore, if the above three conditions can not be conformed at the same time, retailers with suppliers reflecting illegal charges will also be included in the rectification and rectification scope.

It is understood that this rectification will focus on prohibiting the illegal collection of the following six fees:

The first is the fee charged on the basis of signing or renewing the contract.

The two is to charge the supplier who uses the internal code of the store to pay the bar code fee which exceeds the actual cost; or the commodity supplier has obtained the bar code according to the relevant regulations of the state, and can be used normally in the retailer's business premises, but the retailer still keeps the store code fee charged repeatedly.

The three is the decoration and decoration fees which are not specially used for the sales area of the specific goods when the shop is being renovated or decorated.

Four, it is not related to sales promotion or beyond the need for promotion. The fees are collected by festivals, celebrations, new store opening, re opening, listing and merging.

The five is to ask suppliers to provide sales rebates unconditionally, or to stipulate that certain sales volume is the premise of rebate, and the supplier has not completed the profit that the sales amount must be returned.

The six is the other fees that are not directly related to the sale of goods, and should be charged by retailers themselves or not provided by services.

At the same time, retailers charge any fees to suppliers, all of them should be marked with marked price. The form of marked price can be marked price card, price list, price (charge) manual or TV display, computer inquiries, multimedia terminals, etc. the contents of the marked price shall include items of charges (services), service contents, charging standards (prices), and charging conditions. No marked price, or charges, items, standards, amounts and so on, which are not consistent with the price of the marked code, shall be cleaned up and rectified.

In the process of cleaning up and rectification, relevant departments will also check whether the fees charged by large retail enterprises to suppliers are in line with the provisions of laws and regulations, whether they comply with the principles of voluntariness, fairness and honesty, and whether they are fully used to provide corresponding services to suppliers.