The operation runs until September 30. On one side, there are notebooks of all sizes and qualities, bags, pens, ordinary pencils, rulers, erasers, and more. On the other side, books and other accessories, as well as everyday consumer goods like rice, chocolate, milk, vegetable oil, flour, sugar, butter, soap, sardines, pasta, and detergents are sold in impressive quantities at prices that defy competition. During this period of high consumption, price reductions of 15 to 20% allow many households to breathe a sigh of relief. This year's innovation is the inclusion of bookstores in the operation; they have freely decided to sell books with a 5% discount compared to official and approved prices. The result of a fruitful partnership between public authorities and socially responsible businesses in the fight against high cost of living, the commercial start-of-school initiative brings together importers, manufacturers, and wholesalers on one hand, and customers and potential consumers on the other, to facilitate direct sales. The goal is to bypass intermediaries whose margins often make products more expensive and inaccessible to some.In his role as a staunch defender of households' purchasing power, Luc Magloire Mbarga Atangana, Minister of Commerce, has reached out to the private sector to alleviate the burden on households in a particularly challenging global context. The business community, which knows better than anyone that a peaceful social climate is conducive to business, has readily joined forces with the public authorities in this operation, aimed at, among other things, thwarting unscrupulous operators and speculators who attempt to stir up social unrest through unjustified price increase

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