Flipkart, Amazon, others to display MRP, expiry date of products from today

Many top e-tailers, including Flipkart, Myntra and Jabong, are yet to start displaying MRPs. The govt had given a 6-month window to e-commerce players to comply with its order

E-commerce players like Flipkart, Amazon and eBay will have to display maximum retail price (MRP), expiry date and other important details about the products up for sale on their sites, starting Monday. This is expected to assuage buyers' concern that e-sellers might be inflating prices much above the MRP and then offering steep discounts, pocketing handsome gains in the process. 

Earlier this year, the Department of Consumer Affairs had amended the Packaged Commodity Rules, 2011, and issued a notification under which sellers on all e-commerce sites would have to disclose the actual MRP of the product January 1 onwards. The