Sales in supermarkets and wholesalers sank 6.4% each, while an advance in online purchases is observed. So far this year, they show a slight rise of 0.4%, according to the measurement of Scentia.
Despite the slowdown in inflation, the Consumption does not show positive signals. In June 0.8% fell Regarding the same month last year, despite the low comparison base, according to the latest report of Scentia. The fall in sales is given in a labor market that still does not end up recovering: The purchasing power falls and, at the same time, unemployment increases.
The consumption came from three months in a row, the first after a whole year in low. So far from 2025, the accumulates a marginal growth of just 0.4%, a fact that confirms the Recession in private consumptiondespite the deceleration of inflation, which was 15.1% in the first semester and 39.4% year -on -year.
Disgusty consumptions: Online sales rose, but in supermarkets and wholesalers 6% collapsed
The Scentia report relieves more than 8,000 points of sale throughout the country between chain supermarkets, independent self-services, e-commerce pharmacies, wholesalers and kiosks. The biggest casualties occurred in the purchase in chain supermarkets and wholesalers, 6.4% each during June. Meanwhile, the sales that most computed were the on-line (+14.6%) and Pharmacies (+5.6%).
In that context, between supermarkets and self -services The drop in consumption was 2.4% in June compared to the same month last year.
Is that beyond that there is some economic stability with a inflation Already below 2%, the fall in sales is not explained only by price increase, but by a deep adjustment in the pockets. Salaries are not yet recovering. In May, they remainedaccording to the projection of CP Consultores, which accounts for a “stagnation of purchasing power, consolidating the contraction.” In turn, the unemployment also rose and stood at 7.9% In the first quarter of the year, while the poverty It continues to affect 38.1% of the Argentine population during the second semester of 2024.
Although other sectors show reactivation signals, such as industrial production (+5.8% in May) or automaker (+33.8% in June, accumulating+15.6% in the year), economic recovery is not yet felt in the street.
The fall in mass consumption confirms that adjustment is not only a macroeconomic fact, but a daily reality that impacts food, cleaning and basic inputs of households.
Source: Ambito
