The pharmacies assured that the number of employees on unemployment insurance is growing due to purchases by Uruguayans in the neighboring country.
The pharmacy alerted to the impact of the exchange difference with Argentina by ensuring that more and more uruguayans cross to buy to take advantage of the price Gap, which led to a growth in the number of workers in unemployment insurance.
This is how they alerted him from the Uruguayan Pharmacy Center (CFU), pointing out that chronic patients buy medication in Argentine territory that can last them for a whole year, something that affects the sales of border businesses and extends to the entire country.
“There is pharmacy that they have had to send people to unemployment insurance”, confirmed in dialogue with Telemundo the President of the CFU, Enrique Padial, who indicated that “people are constantly traveling through the exchange difference”.
The head of the entity that brings together 270 businesses, admitted that the price gap “It is hitting a lot in the economic part, especially in the medicine part”, although he warned that it also happens with personal care items.
On this point, he clarified: “It is not the same when you feel bad and you are going to buy an analgesic for use at the moment, as when we already see that there are chronic patients who go with the name of the active principle of the product and with that detail to Sometimes they bring up to 12 packages of the same medication, which is practically covered for a year. That’s a loss for the pharmacy community”.
General decline in sales on the coast
The situation occurs within the framework of a general decline in sales in Leap, where the affectation of consumption by the exchange difference. In that department, 70% of the companies suffered decreases in sales, according to a survey of the Commercial and Industrial Center of Salto (CCIS).
In the report, it was specified that the most affected businesses are small and medium-sized ones. In fact, 72.2% admitted that they suffered an increase in costs, while 26% had to reduce their staff due to the situation.
Source: Ambito
