GRTU calls for electronic equipment at market

The GRTU, Association of General Retailers and Traders, is calling on the government to install electronic equipment at the wholesale vegetable and fruit market at Ta' Qali to curb abuses in the purchase of products.

Yesterday, the GRTU asked its members to file outside the market gate in protest against what the GRTU is calling discrimination between buyers.

Buyers could be kept informed of the products' market price every hour through the electronic equipment.

The GRTU is claiming that a number of buyers, under some excuse or another, are allowed into the market before the opening times, where they select, buy and take out of the market the products they buy.

Following the intervention of Philip Von Brockdorff, permanent secretary at the Ministry of Agriculture, it was agreed that the market would open at 1 p.m. instead of 1.30 p.m. until a complete reform at the market was carried out, the GRTU said.