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5-10% price hikes seen at Armenia's school appliances markets ahead of
new academic year
YEREVAN, August 29. /ARKA/. Prices for school appliances leapt 5-10%
ahead of the start of the academic year, Armen Poghosyan, chairman of
the Armenian Consumers Association, said on Friday.
"The prices grew in August 2014, compared with the previous month, but
in comparison with the same month a year earlier no changes are
visible," he said adding that prices for flowers surged even 100%.
He said that the same happens every year in late August due to
relatively small size of Armenia's market and the lack of control and
entrepreneurs' marketing policy.
In his opinion, if entrepreneurs had marketing strategy and warehoused
goods, then no fuss would be seen in the market and entrepreneurs
themselves would sell their goods more effectively.
The expert paid special attention to quality saying that shoddy
products are abundant in the market.
"Consumers should appeal to appropriate institutions, such as the
economy ministry's special agency that controls goods' quality or
nongovernmental organizations protecting consumers' rights," he said.
Nongovernmental organizations say expenses for equipping a first-year
schoolchild with everything necessary for school amount to at least
$100, excluding sportswear.
According to the education and science ministry's preliminary figures,
about 40,000 children will start attending schools in Armenia in 2014.
Yerevan schools have received some 10,500 applications by August 21. --0---
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new academic year
YEREVAN, August 29. /ARKA/. Prices for school appliances leapt 5-10%
ahead of the start of the academic year, Armen Poghosyan, chairman of
the Armenian Consumers Association, said on Friday.
"The prices grew in August 2014, compared with the previous month, but
in comparison with the same month a year earlier no changes are
visible," he said adding that prices for flowers surged even 100%.
He said that the same happens every year in late August due to
relatively small size of Armenia's market and the lack of control and
entrepreneurs' marketing policy.
In his opinion, if entrepreneurs had marketing strategy and warehoused
goods, then no fuss would be seen in the market and entrepreneurs
themselves would sell their goods more effectively.
The expert paid special attention to quality saying that shoddy
products are abundant in the market.
"Consumers should appeal to appropriate institutions, such as the
economy ministry's special agency that controls goods' quality or
nongovernmental organizations protecting consumers' rights," he said.
Nongovernmental organizations say expenses for equipping a first-year
schoolchild with everything necessary for school amount to at least
$100, excluding sportswear.
According to the education and science ministry's preliminary figures,
about 40,000 children will start attending schools in Armenia in 2014.
Yerevan schools have received some 10,500 applications by August 21. --0---
http://arka.am/en/news/society/5_10_price_hikes_seen_at_armenia_s_school_applianc es_markets_ahead_of_new_academic_year/#sthash.lO7ycfFQ.dpuf