At the meeting, the Internal Trade authorities reported that they had detected, through the Argentine Electronic Price Advertising System (SEPA), 1,700 products that had increases of more than 7% so far in March, and which, in turn, had experienced increases of more than 50% in the previous eleven months.
Based on this survey, the Secretariat sent the list in question to the supermarket chains and manufacturers involved, with the commitment to review in the coming days among all the participants each specific case, consider the exceptions and the cases in which there is some reasonable justification, informed the official dependency.
The secretary -along with the undersecretary for Policies for the Internal Market, Antonio Mezmezian and his technical team- stated that the work table is that an agreement on supply and prices can be reached, after the non-compliance alerts that were presented days ago in the daily monitoring that is carried outwhere it was found that the supply of the +Precios Care program went from 80% to 60% in AMBA and that prices registered increases of up to 2.4% in a single day throughout the country, in very different fields.
In addition, Feletti expressed the importance of consolidating this work table to exchange information between all the actors and thus address possible solutions and responses from the Ministry of Domestic Trade.
In this sense, the secretary indicated that products such as wheat and sunflower had a global price escalation, but noted that tools had already been generated to contain the impact on the domestic market through private trusts that cover oils and derivatives. , flour and noodles in the gondolas, and the Wheat Stabilizer Fund for industrial flour.
“No one wants marketers and producers to lose money, but we also don’t want a price escalation that has nothing to do with the country’s macroeconomic situation and that hadn’t happened in the almost 6 months I’ve been in office”The official assured in a press release.
During the work table, whose main objective was to establish predictability guidelines for the daily purchases of Argentines, It was agreed with those present to reverse the recent escalation of prices in mass consumption products and bring back the values established to March 10.
In addition, the Secretary emphasized the need to continue working together with the companies and highlighted “the dialogue that we have always had, since every time they raised a demand we have received them and listened to them.”
Likewise, the official expressed the guidelines of the price policies that the portfolio is carrying out to protect the pockets of consumers.
“In the next few days we want the 4 baskets that we have been working on in the Secretariat to be available throughout the country: the renewal of the +Care Prices program for large supermarket chains; the 60-product basket of +Care Prices for businesses of proximity; and the two fresh initiatives: the Careful Cuts program, which supplies cuts of beef at fair prices; and the basket of fruits and vegetables that we are going to launch soon,” Feletti transmitted them.
For his part, Mezmezian stated that “There are products with increases that have no justification, and although we can understand and we are committed to reviewing some exceptions, that information has to be on the table to see what the incidence of various factors is. We all have to bet on growth of the country and moderate ourselves”.
“The objective of these tables is to talk about the problems, reach an agreement and then comply with it. We have to agree that the inexplicable increases are rolled back,” he added.
Carla Martin Bonito, from the Coordinator of the Food Products Industries (COPAL); Juan Vasco Martínez, from the Association of United Supermarkets (ASU);
Cecilia Rena and Gustavo Bertone, from Arcor; Mariana Petrina from L’Oreal; Federico Koron, of Day, Natalia Giraud, of Unilever; Patricio Dayuta, from Mondelez; Esteban Agos, from Coca Cola; and Iván Esposito, from Beiersdorf.
Also participating were Carlos Della Paolera, from the Meat Processing Company; Santiago Matteoda and David Vainman, from Molino Cañuelas; Agustín Torres Campbell of Molinos Río de la Plata; Inés Kratch, of Procter & Gamble; Sergio López, from the Introducing Company; Raúl Riba, from Dulcor; Raúl Schmidt and Miguel Angel Torales, from Granix; Santiago Mias and Gustavo Quatrin, from Cooperativa Liebig; Nestor Sist, from Carrefour; Carlos Corro, from Cencosud; and Juan Pablo, Irrera, from Coto.
Source: Ambito
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