When will the Malta Competition and Consumer Affairs Authority find the gumption to insist that locally-made bread should be sold by weight?

The large Maltese loaf (ħobża ta’ ratal) should weigh around 800gm, but too many years ago to remember the bakers blackmailed the then government to grant them a weight of 600gm for a certain price.

I have forgotten when I last bought a loaf that weighed more than 470-500gm.

My long-held suspicion is that the bakers accepted the deal because, having done their homework right, they knew they could make extra profits by unofficially reducing the weight of their bread without anybody of significance raising so much as a whimper.

I did several years ago with the consumer affairs column of The Sunday Times, but to no avail.

Nowadays grocers have digital scales evenfor sweets.

So why not for bread? Let’s be serious and take immediate steps to stop this flagrant robbery in the light of day – and evening, for all that matter.

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