a. There is a general tendency that during the Holy Month of Ramzan, the prices of essential consumer items are substantially increased by the traders / retailers in the private sector. This results into lot of difficulties for the public. In order to overcome this situation, the USC as a pioneer started offering Relief Packages during Ramzan-ul-Mubarik since last 14 years. It announces 3% to 15% price reduction on different essential and other items during Ramzan which leaves a very healthy impact on the prices of essential items in the country. During last Ramzan the USC offered price reduction on over 450 essential and other items from 3% to 15%. Due to this, the private traders in competition also kept their prices low throughout the country which resulted in control over price spiral and provided economic relief to the public.
b. The USC offers Special Relief Packages also periodically during the year by reducing prices of large number of essential and other items. To provide benefit to maximum number of public, the USC also arranges Mobile Stores in far flung areas. This also leaves healthy impact on the prices throughout the country.
c. The USC purchase confiscated items ceased by the custom authorities and retail them at comparatively cheaper rates through its selected stores.
d. In order to pass relief to the public and to check draining out to the private wholesalers and retailers, the prices of items reduced by the USC are however not fixed below the cost price or the whole sale prices.