File #: 25-485    Version: 1 Name:
Type: Members of the City Council Status: Agenda Ready
File created: 4/9/2025 In control: City Council
On agenda: 4/15/2025 Final action:
Title: Discussion and action to direct the City Manager and City Attorney to draft and present a City ordinance within 120 days that would require retail grocery stores to offer fair access to discount pricing to all consumers, regardless of their access to or familiarity with digital technology. The ordinance would further require any grocery store that sells goods in the City of El Paso and offers digital coupons and/or discounts via the Internet, text message, or a mobile/smartphone application, to make traditional, physical coupons with identical pricing available to consumers.
Attachments: 1. D2 - Request for ordinance -discount pricing at grocery stores, 2. CC16 Grocery.Price.Fairness.Ordinance.

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Members of the City Council, Representative Josh Acevedo, (915) 212-0002

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Discussion and action to direct the City Manager and City Attorney to draft and present a City ordinance within 120 days that would require retail grocery stores to offer fair access to discount pricing to all consumers, regardless of their access to or familiarity with digital technology. The ordinance would further require any grocery store that sells goods in the City of El Paso and offers digital coupons and/or discounts via the Internet, text message, or a mobile/smartphone application, to make traditional, physical coupons with identical pricing available to consumers. 

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