Businessman Euclides Bugliotti, owner of Dinosaur Group, decided to expand something that had already been implemented for months. It will receive dollars in its Super Mami supermarket chain, including the so-called “small face” bills.
Years ago, his supermarket chain received dollars, until the former Secretary of Domestic Trade, Guillermo Moreno, prohibited them from doing so. Since the beginning of this year, he has only accepted them for payments from some clients to quotations. from $1,320 to $1,325.
How much will the “Super Mami” dollar be worth today?
Starting this Wednesday, Super Mami will receive dollars for any purchase at a price of $1,375, above the blue.
In this way, it enters into competition with the wholesale chain Diarco, which also receives dollars at a value of $1,400.
“Super Mommy Dollar”: why she made the decision to receive the bills
“We receive dollars in the supermarket for the common good of the people; we must help people who have cheap dollars and who in some places do not accept them or are quoted 10% less,” Bugliotti said on Radio Mitre Córdoba. For now, you will not receive damaged, torn or painted dollars. But he does not rule out doing it in a second stage. “That requires an agreement with a bank, we will see about that at another time,” he stressed.
He also said that “for about a year now” the Mami supermarkets have been receiving dollars “permanently” as a form of payment for purchases.
The new strategy comes in a context in which economic activity is not picking up and consumption continues to fall. According to the consultancy Scentiadirected by Osvaldo del Rioin July the drop was 16.1% in supermarkets and independent self-service stores. The cumulative drop was 9.6%.
In addition, as he learned Scope, he consumption in supermarkets marked a drop of 18% during the first eleven days of August, compared to the same period in 2023. For some supermarket owners, this year “is already lost”, but they are betting on a rebound in the last quarter.
However, this supermarket highlights that in Dino Supermarkets “there is no decline.” “On the contrary, we have been up two points every month. Everything depends on the pricing policy,” said Bugliotti.
Source: Ambito
