And while he may not have the silver bullet solution for the carrot farmers of his constituency, Jose Mai - who is the minister responsible for the Supplies Control Unit says repeat offenders should be shut down. 152 stores countrywide received tickets for price violations and Mai suggested strict penalties:
Jose Mai, Minister of Agriculture
"If you're repeated offenders, then like I said, I haven't seen the list, but we'll look at what the law says about it, and if they need to close them down, then we close them down. We make them, we publicize them first, we show the people then that these people are gouging, and after that, then we follow the law. There's a law for it, right? So we have to follow what the law."
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