香港报纸零售市场出现恶性竞争。尽管报纸都有零售定价,但是部分便利店和报贩为争抢生意,纷纷随报附送纸巾、打火机等赠品,有些更直接减价港币5角至1元。香港报贩业协会3月8日发出呼吁,为了避免恶性竞争,全港报贩应统一售价,停送赠品。该协会还要求报馆及代理商惩罚那些降价的报贩,削减对他们的供应量。据悉,全港约有300名报贩是报贩业协会的会员,占全港报贩的50%。但是,香港消费者委员会方面却指出,他们一向维护自由商业社 Hong Kong newspaper retail market vicious competition. Despite the retail pricing of newspapers, some convenience stores and newspaper vendors vied with businesses for donations of paper towels, lighters and other gifts. Some of them even reduced their prices directly by HK $ 5 to $ 1. The Hong Kong Press Association, on March 8, issued an appeal. In order to avoid vicious competition, newspaper vendors in Hong Kong should have uniform selling prices and stop giving gifts. The association also demanded that newspapers and agents penalize those newspaper vendors who cut their prices and cut the supply to them. It is learned that about 300 newspaper vendors in Hong Kong are members of the newspaper trade associations, accounting for 50% of the newspaper vendors in Hong Kong. However, the Hong Kong Consumer Council has pointed out that they have always upheld Free Trade Association