Traders In The Kudus Traditional Market Have Not Been Able To Sell Cooking Oil At The Highest Retail Price

Cooking oil available at a traditional market in Kudus Regency, Central Java. (Photo: ANTARA/Akhmad Nazaruddin Lathif)

JAKARTA - A number of traders at traditional markets in Kudus Regency, Central Java, have not been able to sell cooking oil according to the highest retail price (HET), following the wholesalers having to buy in packages with other commodities. Tutik Asiani, one of the vegetable traders at Bitingan Kudus Market, Sunday, admitted that the cooking oil obtained was bought in packages with other commodities. Among them, some were packaged with packaged coconut milk and packaged rice, only to be able to get cooking oil which had been sold according to the HET for Rp. 14,000 per liter. package, then the selling price of the cooking oil is automatically sold at a higher price than HET. Some of them are sold at a price of Rp. 16,000/liter without packages with other commodities. If the wholesaler is not packaged, the selling price of cooking oil can also be according to HET. (13/3) didn't even have stock because the customers had already bought them. "He told Antara. For this reason, he hopes that the supply of cooking oil will be increased so that the selling price can also match the HET and there is no need for wholesale action from the public because the stock is safe.

Another trader said the same thing. Selasih admitted that there was still sufficient stock of cooking oil available, but the purchase had to be made for other products because the wholesaler was also packaged with other products. One of them, he said, was that the available cooking oil was packaged with energy drink products, and some packaged with physiotherapy oil. "Even if you buy it without including the package product, of course the selling price cannot match the HET because I bear the cost of shopping for other products that are not much in demand," he said. as well as traders in traditional markets when there is sufficient stock of cooking oil.