{"id":667303,"date":"2026-10-28T00:14:16","date_gmt":"2026-10-28T00:14:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/667303\/"},"modified":"2026-10-28T00:14:16","modified_gmt":"2026-10-28T00:14:16","slug":"ccpc-reminds-retailers-to-display-paper-bag-prices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/667303\/","title":{"rendered":"CCPC reminds retailers to display paper bag prices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (CCPC) has written to retailers reminding them to display prices for paper bags as is set out in consumer law.<\/p>\n<p>It comes after consumers contacted the CCPC helpline reporting a lack of signage in shops or at checkouts showing the price of shopping bags.<\/p>\n<p>Under consumer law, retailers must clearly display prices for items being sold.<\/p>\n<p>These prices must be unambiguous, easily identifiable, clearly legible, and on or near the product.<\/p>\n<p>The CCPC said when breaches of the law are detected, it may take further action.<\/p>\n<p>These actions range from the issuing of fixed payment notices and compliance notices up to prosecution in the courts.<\/p>\n<p>The CCPC&#8217;s Director of Communications and Consumer said &#8220;consumers have a right to know the price of any product they purchase, including shopping bags&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>She added: &#8220;They should not be put on the spot at the till to pay it or notice it afterwards on their receipts.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The contacts we&#8217;ve received through our helpline highlight potentially concerning practices around price displays, so we are writing to traders to remind them of their legal obligations.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (CCPC) has written to retailers reminding them to display prices for paper&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":667304,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[72,61,60],"class_list":["post-667303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=667303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667303\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/667304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=667303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=667303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=667303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}