{"id":44408,"date":"2019-08-30T14:45:01","date_gmt":"2019-08-30T18:45:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=44408"},"modified":"2019-08-30T14:45:17","modified_gmt":"2019-08-30T18:45:17","slug":"watch-out-for-price-gouging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2019\/08\/watch-out-for-price-gouging\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch out for Price Gouging"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"620\" height=\"828\" src=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Family-Dollar-Lehigh-Acres-08302019.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-44409\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Family-Dollar-Lehigh-Acres-08302019.jpg 620w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Family-Dollar-Lehigh-Acres-08302019-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><figcaption>The photo was taken 8\/30\/2019 in Lehigh Acres Fl Family dollar <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p> State law prohibits excessive increases in the price of essential commodities, such as food, water, hotel rooms, ice, gasoline, lumber, and equipment, needed as a direct result of an officially declared emergency. Anyone who suspects price gouging during this declared state of emergency should report it to the Attorney General\u2019s Office by using the NO SCAM app, or calling (866) 9NO-SCAM. The Attorney General\u2019s NO SCAM app can be downloaded for free through Apple and Android stores by searching NO SCAM.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For tips on reporting price gouging, click&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/myfloridalegal.com\/webfiles.nsf\/WF\/TDGT-BCNQAE\/$file\/Tips+for+Avoiding+Price+Gouging+and+Gathering+Gouging+Evidence.pdf\">here<\/a>.\n\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>State law prohibits excessive increases in the price of essential commodities, such as food, water, hotel rooms, ice, gasoline, lumber, and equipment, needed as a direct result of an officially&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":44409,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,32],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44408"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44408"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44408\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}