Consumer dealers resent ‘monopoly’ of big retail chains
HYDERABAD: About 6,000 distributors who are members of the Federation of AP Consumer Products Distributors’ Association are up in arms against big retail chains and companies for their ‘dictatorial attitude, unethical trade practices and attempts to monopolise business’ affecting lakhs of small traders and consumers.
Ch. Krishna, president, who heads the Federation of All-India Distributors’ Association, told a press conference here on Tuesday that distributors had observed a four-day State-wide ‘bandh’ from September 29 to express their resentment against their companies. The bandh was ‘100 per cent success’, he claimed.
He said the distributors, whose annual turnover was about Rs.3,000 crore, had shut down their business, took out rallies and conveyed their protests to the companies. A delegation of the federation would shortly meet Chief Minister Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy. It would also represent to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Union Ministers Kamalnath and P. Chidambaram. He decried the ‘frightening approach’ adopted by the companies because of which about 40 per cent of distribution activity had been terminated in the State.
Mr. Krishna, K. Prakash Murthy, treasurer, and City unit president Y. Dayaker Gupta, wanted the Government to incorporate a law to protect the dealers’ investments, business and security. They said if the Government did not concede the demand, dealers would launch an agitation.
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