The new Fair Prices it will contain some 50,000 products from 500 companies that may not have monthly increases of more than 3.2%. The validity of this stage will be from february to june. In addition to the stipulated “path”, it will continue to have a basket of 2,000 mass consumption items that will remain unchanged for 90 days and they will have signage on the gondolas.
Starting this month, the agreement will include some 15 sectors of the economy. In addition to the products of the warehouse, they will also be found within the same umbrella: fuels, medicines, footwear, paints, school supplies, supplies distributed, electronics, bicycles, among others.
New control system
Among the novelties, a system will also be announced that allows prices to be controlled in real time. Is about a software that ARSAT developed and that gives the Secretary of Commerce, Matías Tombolini, and his team access to the history of a certain itemnot only in the indicated supermarket chain, but also in each of the stores where it is sold.
New program gives instant access to 3.5 million prices across the country. “Now we have the macro and also the micro data, this allows us to have information in real time and analyze both the compliance of the basket and the path in each branch, to later advance in the audits,” an official who already uses Ámbito explained to Ámbito. the tool.
All information collected is used to feed the “price table” a daily team meeting that Tombolini convenes that is used to later communicate with the companies to analyze the reason for the breaches. Online monitoring will take place on physical stores, but also on virtual ones.
This tool will also make it possible to clarify an old dispute: that of supermarkets against supplier industries. For example, if a certain item shows a general increase above the guideline in the different retail chains, it can be inferred that the non-compliance starts from there. The same in the opposite case, if a store has deviations in many products.
Source: Ambito
