At the time that the month of April marked a decline in the level of retail sales, merchants consulted by the scope indicate that the decrease in consumption occurs within the framework of three situations: arrival of Imported products, rise in costs and greater delays or uncollectibility in suppliers payments.
March is a month of great expense for families. In April, Usually MERMAN EROGACIONES. In turn, according to a merchant to this medium, they accumulate Summer vacation expenses and, for those who can, the consumption generated in the Holy Week holiday.
Thus, April is a month “hinge“For commerce because, according to the testimony, families already remain with little rest. In itself, in the clothing sector, for example, the intermediate temperatures of autumn generate that”clothing sales are registered in half “and more when the heat feels more strongly than for this height of the year.
During the past month, the Argentine Confederation of the Medium Enterprises (CAME) warned that consumption 1.8% retracted at a monthly levelalthough he showed a rise of 3.9% in interannual terms and another of 14.9% in the accumulated.
The keys to the fall of sales in April
Mauro Gonzálezhead of Federal Confederation SMEexplains that the low sales is given in a context where There are costs, such as energy services, rentals and freight. Instead, other items, such as salary, are on average below inflation.
To accommodate the joints below the consumer price index (CPI) is shown as an explicit objective of the government to control inflation. In this way, the Ministry of Labor chose to skip an agreement between private and reject the homologation of the parity that brings together 1,200,000 trade workers, which proposes a rise of 5.4% in three sections.
The intention to use salary as an inflationary anch Economic Studies of the Province Bankalready in 2024 They fell almost 3%.
However, what is pointed out more seriously for SMEs is the entry of products from Southeast Asia in less than ninety days. “Many colleagues traveled to the last fairs in China and estimate that in No more than three months the products will be in our country and that will generate greater fall in industrial activity ”, González emphasizes.
Julián MorenoPresident of the Assembly of small and medium entrepreneurs (APyme)understand that costs They are kept upbut look at a particular issue: “There is little money circulating and payments are being cut“.” In that scenario, prices matter little, “warns the leader.
Thus, he points out that SMEs that do not sell the consumer directly “depend on other companies that pay the services” that, according to their suspicion, take to cancel the payments because “They do the same that they offer to financial capital ” To make a difference.
Just the last survey of National Entrepreneurs for Argentine Development (ENAC) on payment chain deepens this point and indicates that 55.33% of companies had extensions in collection deadlineswhile 39% said that breach increased.
For its part, the consultant Eco Go maintains that in February the 9.4% of non -bank loans showed delinquency. According to the numbers of the firm of Marina Dal Poggettoit is an increase of 0.8 percentage points compared to the previous month and 2 percentage points above the minimum reached in November.
Source: Ambito
