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Entrepreneurs and merchants support the Fair Prices program

Entrepreneurs and merchants support the Fair Prices program

“In this sense, each one of us has the obligation not only to seek options and alternatives individually (within their companies), but also together with other actors in the economy and with the State, to ensure access to basic products and clear reference prices,” he added.

With that optimistic tone, he stated: “Specifically, this agreement that freezes the price of a basket of 1,700 references and defines a fixed increase guideline (of 4% per month) for the rest of the products, is not only a response to this challenge , but -in turn- provides greater predictability and price reference to consumers”.

The voice of small businesses

Outside of the big chains, the president of the Chamber of Chinese Supermarkets, Yolanda Duran, said: “I feel that the price agreement will be fulfilled because in each list there are products from each hypermarket.”

Speaking to AM 530 radio, he added: “Sales are totally stagnant, we needed a price reference.” and he asked “that trainers respect prices, really provide and supply”.

With a critical tone, he made a difference with the big firms in the sector: “In the face of this inflation, there is no pocket that can endure, we are not enough to replace the merchandise. The owners of the hypermarkets are multimillionaires, we have each owner in his box.”

De Mendiguren: “It is an agreement with rewards and punishments”

From the Government, the Secretary of Industry and Productive Development, Jose Ignacio de Mendigurenhe maintained: “If we do not deal with inflation firmly, it will turn you backwards, because if you calculate inflation, future inflation over past inflation, you are throwing gasoline on it.”

He also recognized that “price agreements do not in themselves solve inflation.” However, he stressed: “It seems to me that taking the fiscal order, reforming reserves, are all decisions to start stabilizing the economy.”

Regarding the program, he reviewed that “This agreement, in addition to being voluntary, has rewards and punishments”. And he explained: “For those who accept the conditions, the freezing and not raise more than 4% the rest of the products that are not set prices, we are going to collaborate with credits As the Government has promoted for the industry, we are going to collaborate so that they have the dollars to import the inputs that the production of goods requires, that is, there is an exchange of mutual obligations, ours and those of the companies”.

Source: Ambito

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