The government called the shortage warning a threat and affirmed that it will demand compliance with the price freeze

The government called the shortage warning a threat and affirmed that it will demand compliance with the price freeze

In addition, via Twitter, he rejected the statements of the head of the Chamber of Commerce (CAC), Mario Grinman, who warned of a possible shortage of products as a result of the measure and described that statement as a “threat”.

“We are not forcing a situation, we are not attacking the business sector. We are telling them to sell more, produce more,” said the official, for whom the price controls “always served to expand consumption, at least for a time.”

Segun Feletti, “This intervention is defined to stabilize prices for 90 days because the basic food basket is biting more portions of the salary.”

“So, we must lift the weight of the salary with respect to the basic basket. The businessmen have installed capacity, they rebuilt margins all this year, a lot, and the basic basket continues to increase. Let’s stop a little, let’s accept this support, it is not the Government, It is the people, “said the official, speaking to a news channel.

In addition, he emphasized: “In monopoly markets they will always adjust by price and never by quantity. They get to maximize the benefit by raising prices and never expanding the quantity.”

“There is a distributive bid in Argentina because we continue to have strong unions and popular movements that put pressure,” he stressed. And he said that it was time to “stop the ball and order the discussion of prices and food.”

“I do not think this can be maintained, what I do believe is that you have to order and you have to see. We are not asking 60 companies for an effort on 1,400 products to have a better time. We are not saying ‘lose money'”, he stressed.

In this context, Feletti stressed that with the freezing of the price of 1,432 products -which will be in force until January 7- “the fundamental bet is to know where it is not being fulfilled and to demand that it be fulfilled.”

“That the price goes down, that the person can take the product with the lowest price or if there is a supply problem that they go to the logistics center and that the product appears in the gondola. It is direct pressure,” he said.

According to the official: “We want to prevent the product from being left in the box or in the gondola because it cannot be bought.”

At the same time, he questioned “business logic”, which he said is “I don’t want frontal labeling, I don’t want price agreements, I don’t want gondola law.”

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