The appliances and household items experienced increases of up to 50% after the results of the PASSED last Sunday and devaluation the following day of 20%, which was accompanied by an escalation of the Dolar bluewhich was quoted at $780.
The president of the Argentine Federation of Trade in Home Appliances and Related Products (FACA Hogar) and president of the Chamber of Home Appliances of Santa Fe, Jose Lilinoexplained to C5N.com that on Monday there was “a lot of uncertainty” in the sector because “a large percentage of the products they sell have imported inputs“.
Given the increase in dollarthe businessman indicated that some supplier companies suspended the sale of products and others sent lists with increases ranging from from 10% to 50% according to different products.
In addition, he warned that prices may continue to rise in the coming days: “we don’t have prices, companies suspended sales because they did not know how all the increases would impact the final cost. As of today we begin to have some release of purchases more than anything in regard to products that have a great national content in their manufacture.”
Increases this week post STEP
lilino detailed that furniture, mattresses, kitchens and appliances of a similar nature had increases ranging between 12% in furniture and 22% in the last 48 hours while technology items (televisions, cell phones, computers and consoles) still do not have a list of prices.
Prices until this Thursday
40-inch LED Smart TV, $150,000
Basic refrigerator of 290 lt $280 thousand
Natural gas kitchen $140 thousand
3450W air conditioning $350 thousand
150 x90 cm wooden dining table $76 thousand
Set of 6 Nordic chairs with cushion $140 thousand
King mattress 140 x190 cm $215 thousand.
lilino He said that many merchants decide to lose profitability so as not to transfer the increases to customers and thus maintain consumption. “Long ago the SMEs we have been working below in relation to the billing of last year,” he said.
Along these lines, the merchant leader commented that, as a result of instability and uncertainty, there are fewer and fewer promotions in banks to encourage consumption and called for the need for the government to implement new sales instruments to also benefit the consumer. of measures to improve the purchasing power of workers.
“We are from the party of the workers, we care that those who lead us do well because we are all doing well. That is why we need stability and that they think about the consumer. We are interested in consumers being well compensated because that it spills. If the consumer does not have enough for the quota of the tables and chairs, the microwaves, we are dead,” he concluded.
Source: Ambito
