Experts: Carrefour Wal-Mart compensation commitments less than the legal provisions

According to Xinhua News agency, Beijing, February 17 (reporter Changzhipeng Zhou Rui) "Global Top 500" enterprises Wal-Mart, Carrefour, not to fulfill the price commitment, "low elevation knot" incident, two of the company responsible for the respective apology and make a compensation commitment.　　But the experts recently suggested that the two major companies ' compensation commitments were less than the legal provisions. Wugauhan, vice president of China Commodity Association, said that two supermarkets false price constitutes fraud, in accordance with the provisions of the Consumer Protection Act 49th, should be based on the price of consumers buy goods to pay one times. Now two supermarkets are committed to the purchase price of the base compensation five times times, suspected of violating legal provisions.　　Wugauhan said that generally, if the indemnity is lower than the provisions of the law should be compensated in accordance with the provisions of the law, if higher than the provisions of the law should be compensated according to the Liu Junhai, director of the Institute of Business Law, Renmin University of China, Zhongxiaoxie, said that the purchase price was the amount paid by the consumer at Wal-Mart and Carrefour at that time, rather than the difference. In addition, the law provides for the limits of compensation, which, if below, are not compensable.　　Consumers themselves may not accept substandard compensation. Carrefour China responded by saying that the five times-fold commitment "does not conflict with consumer protection laws". The policy of "five times times Difference" does not coincide with the current law of elimination. Carrefour related personnel said, the elimination of the law 49th "to consumers to buy goods for the basis of the base to pay one times" provisions, is aimed at "intentional fraud", and Carrefour "promised five times times the difference" is due to "work negligence", to consumers brought loss and inconvenience.　　Carrefour officials also said that the establishment of five times times the difference in compensation is "the prevailing rules in the industry", not its initiative. Relevant information shows that Wal-Mart, Carrefour price fraud in a number of major cities have been exposed, the state authorities specifically to investigate this matter. In Harbin, Nanning, Shanghai, Kunming and other cities in the chain stores, this has become the two multinational retail industry giants "common behavior." Although some city price departments have punished this, some consumers believe that the fraud is not the first time in Carrefour and Wal-Mart, the punishment is too light is caused by multinational retail giants in China chain stores problem is a constant reason. It is understood that in the European and American countries that have established punitive compensation system, retailers will face huge penalty risk in the event of price fraud.