The state Division of Consumer Affairs has received approximately 16 consumer complaints about baby formula price gouging to date, roughly half of them in the less than three days since a state of emergency was declared.
'Far too many licensed professionals exploit the trust placed in them by members of the public," the state attorney general said in announcing his new directive.
The "Safe Summer 2016" kickoff session Friday at Jenkinson's Boardwalk in Point Pleasant Beach has investigators from around the state making sure merchants are in compliance with game fairness, pricing, scanning, and other consumer safety check-ins.
With the severe rain and flooding New Jersey had in the spring and summer of last year, it's no surprise that concerns related to home improvements topped the list of complaints filed by consumers with the State Division of Consumer Affairs in 2011.