{"id":276566,"date":"2020-11-25T03:30:53","date_gmt":"2020-11-25T08:30:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=276566"},"modified":"2020-11-25T03:30:53","modified_gmt":"2020-11-25T08:30:53","slug":"dti-reminds-consumers-to-do-early-christmas-shopping","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2020\/11\/25\/dti-reminds-consumers-to-do-early-christmas-shopping\/","title":{"rendered":"DTI reminds consumers to do early Christmas shopping"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_273438\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-273438\" style=\"width: 2031px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/45525.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-273438\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/45525.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2031\" height=\"1354\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/45525.jpg 2031w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/45525-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/45525-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/45525-1024x683.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2031px) 100vw, 2031px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-273438\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Aside from doing early shopping, consumers are also told to be wise buyers. &#8220;As wise buyers, they should not be brand conscious but grab the opportunity to buy products that are sold as premium in pack,\u201d he said. (PNA photo by Joey O. Razon)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>SAN JOSE DE BUENAVISTA, Antique<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 The Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) Antique provincial office is reminding consumers to do their Christmas shopping early to avoid crowding in shopping malls and grocery stores.<\/p>\n<p>Glen Fernando, DTI Antique provincial office Trade and Industry Specialist, said that since most of the government employees have received their bonuses, then they could already do their Christmas shopping and no longer wait for a few days before December 25.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cConsumers are advised no longer to wait for the last minute shopping,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Starting November 17 they intensified their monitoring of Noche Buena products to make sure that prices of commodities like the 500 grams Swift Noche Buena Ham will not exceed the Suggested Retail Price (SRP), which is PHP135.00, and the Del Monte Spaghetti 400 grams at PHP52.25.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo far in our monitoring of the Noche Buena products the major stores in the province had not exceeded the SRP,\u201d Fernando said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have no specific day for the monitoring but we will do it weekly,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Aside from doing early shopping, consumers are also told to be wise buyers. &#8220;As wise buyers, they should not be brand conscious but grab the opportunity to buy products that are sold as premium in pack,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>An example of premium in pack items is the spaghetti noodles that are sold in bundle with sauce and cheese or the salad macaroni with mayonnaise and creamer, which could be cheaper as compared when they are bought as single items.<\/p>\n<p>Fernando said that shopping malls and stores will get a letter of inquiry if ever they will be found to have exceeded the SRP.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SAN JOSE DE BUENAVISTA, Antique\u00a0\u2013 The Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) Antique provincial office is reminding consumers to do &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":273438,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-276566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","mauthors-annabel-consuelo-petinglay","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276566","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=276566"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276566\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":276572,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276566\/revisions\/276572"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/273438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}