{"id":64866,"date":"2023-02-16T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-02-16T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/64866\/starting-today-lebanons-supermarkets-to-set-pricing-in-dollars"},"modified":"2023-02-16T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2023-02-16T00:00:00","slug":"starting-today-lebanons-supermarkets-to-set-pricing-in-dollars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/en\/64866\/starting-today-lebanons-supermarkets-to-set-pricing-in-dollars\/","title":{"rendered":"Starting Today, Lebanon&#8217;s Supermarkets To Set Pricing In Dollars"},"content":{"rendered":"In a press release shared by the Minister of Economy Amin Salam, it was revealed that\u00a0supermarkets are now allowed to price goods and products in USD &#8211; so long as they display a daily exchange rate at both the entrance of the supermarket, as well as on the cash.<br \/>  <br \/>    <blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"ar\" dir=\"rtl\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/%D8%B9%D8%A7%D8%AC%D9%84?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#\u0639\u0627\u062c\u0644<\/a>&#8211; \u0648\u0632\u064a\u0631 \u0627\u0644\u0627\u0642\u062a\u0635\u0627\u062f: \u0625\u0635\u062f\u0627\u0631 \u0625\u0639\u0644\u0627\u0646 \u0628\u0639\u062f \u0638\u0647\u0631 \u0627\u0644\u064a\u0648\u0645 \u0644\u0644\u062a\u0633\u0639\u064a\u0631 \u0628\u0627\u0644\u062f\u0648\u0644\u0627\u0631 \u0641\u064a \u0627\u0644\u0633\u0648\u0628\u0631\u0645\u0627\u0631\u0643\u062a<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/TKU2w5XaY4\">https:\/\/t.co\/TKU2w5XaY4<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/GGDt3unRjh\">pic.twitter.com\/GGDt3unRjh<\/a><\/p>\u2014 Annahar (@Annahar) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Annahar\/status\/1626174351451074560?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 16, 2023<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>  <br \/>  <br \/>  The fluctuating Lira-USD has left supermarkets unable to set a fixed price for goods, and since Lebanon relies primarily on imports, the instability of the currency has caused major losses to the sector.<br \/>  <br \/>  Salam said: &#8220;We are living through exceptional circumstances,&#8221; going on to add that this was done due to a complete &#8220;absence of any control on the USD rate&#8221;.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a press release shared by the Minister of Economy Amin Salam, it was revealed that\u00a0supermarkets are now allowed to price goods and products in USD &#8211; so long as they display a daily exchange rate at both the entrance of the supermarket, as well as on the cash.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":423823,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ai_generated_summary":"","_preview_accessed":0,"footnotes":""},"tags":[],"media-embed-type":[],"class_list":["post-64866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog"],"authorship":[72],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.7 (Yoast SEO v27.7) - 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