Bakers’ associations will meet this week with the Undersecretary for Consumer Protection. They say that the increase should be higher.
Bread prices rose again in the province of Buenos Aires: The increase is 5%, which brings the price of a kilo to $2,300. Bakers’ associations say that the increase should be higher but that “people don’t have a penny.”
However, the increase is due to the rise in raw materials, rent and tariffs. Bakers’ associations admit to being limited by the drop in sales. Likewise, in the coming weeks it will increase by another 5%.
Last week, different Industrial Centers of Bakers of the Province met and defined the increase in 60 districts. Among them, in the bakeries of Marcos Paz, Las Heras, Moreno, San Miguel, General Rodriguez, Jose C Paz, Malvinas Argentinas, Quilmes, Florencio Varela, San Pedro, Lobos, Navarro, San Fernando, Tigre and Merlo.
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Among the reasons for the increase, the associations refer to the 22% increase in the price of flour in the last two months and to maintaining the wages of the workforce. Regarding this, Pinto exclaimed: “The workforce is not up for debate, it is the boys’ salary.”
In addition, Pinto also highlighted the increase in electricity, gas and petrol prices, which cause a significant increase in the costs and rents of bakery premises, which in the mentioned municipalities usually range from 850 thousand to over 2 million pesos.
Bakers will be welcomed by Javier Milei for the first time
Following the request for an audience with the Secretary of Domestic Trade, Pablo Lavigne, the Bakers will be received this week by the Undersecretary of Consumer Protection, Fernando Blanco Muiño.
“We are being killed by social security contributions and direct unfair competition from those who have illegal jobs. We pay for habilitation, social security contributions, but 85% of this sector has unregistered work. Many do it to reduce costs and we are ruined,” explained Pinto.
Source: Ambito
