File #: Res 1235-2000    Version: * Name: Passover Kosher Market Basket Survey
Type: Resolution Status: Adopted
Committee: Committee on Consumer Affairs
On agenda: 3/20/2000
Enactment date: Law number:
Title: Resolution calling upon the Department of Consumer Affairs to conduct the "Passover Kosher Market Basket Survey" in a timely fashion and encouraging consumers to use this information to choose stores that keep their holiday prices in line with their year round prices.
Sponsors: June M. Eisland, Karen Koslowitz, Noach Dear, Kenneth K. Fisher, Howard L. Lasher, Kathryn E. Freed, Stanley E. Michels, Walter L. McCaffrey, Wendell Foster, Jose Rivera, Jerome X. O'Donovan, Lawrence A. Warden, Lucy Cruz, Helen M. Marshall, Stephen DiBrienza, Julia Harrison, Sheldon S. Leffler, Michael C. Nelson, Mary Pinkett, Morton Povman, Madeline T. Provenzano, Christine C. Quinn, Annette M. Robinson, Angel Rodriguez, Michael J. Abel, Martin J. Golden, Alphonse Stabile
Council Member Sponsors: 27
Res. No. 1235 Title Resolution calling upon the Department of Consumer Affairs to conduct the "Passover Kosher Market Basket Survey" in a timely fashion and encouraging consumers to use this information to choose stores that keep their holiday prices in line with their year round prices. Body By Council Members Eisland, Koslowitz, Dear, Fisher, Lasher, Freed, Michels, McCaffrey, Foster, Rivera, O'Donovan, Warden, Cruz; also Council Members DiBrienza, Harrison, Leffler, Nelson, Pinkett, Povman, Provenzano, Quinn, Robinson, Rodriguez, Abel, Golden and Stabile Whereas, In preparation for the Passover seder, which this year begins at sundown on April 19th, families will begin shopping for their holiday products in the coming weeks; and Whereas, In the past, manufacturers and retailers have taken advantage of those who celebrate this special holiday by sometimes raising the prices of Passover foods in the period immediately preceding Passover; and Whereas, Since its inception, at the request of the Council fifteen years ago, the "Passover Kosher Market Basket Survey" has been of tremendous benefit to consumers in helping them to comparison shop; and Whereas, Encouraging customers to comparative shop and providing them with average price information for staple Passover foods has, surveys indicate, effectively addressed the practice of increasing prices for "Kosher for Passover" foods; and Whereas, Palm cards, distributed by Council Members, containing information gathered by the Department of Consumer Affairs as to the average prices of holiday products, are of great assistance to shoppers as they compare the prices of those products; and Whereas, The "Passover Kosher Market Basket Survey" has sent a strong and clear message that the prices of Passover products are being closely observed; now, therefore, be it Resolved, That the Council calls upon the Department of Consumer Affairs to conduct the "Passover Kosher Market Basket Survey" in a timely fashion and encourages consumers to use this information to choose stores that keep their holiday prices in line with their year round prices.