The Secretary of Commerce demanded that the large supermarket chains we do not accept new price lists with increases of more than 4%. The officials of the body he directs have admitted this Matia Tomboliniwho met the representatives of the large distribution chains at noon on Monday.

The Government’s request concerns both products on the list of Prices CuraIt’s like a much longer list and still pending definitions, which they will cover 1,500 products and that the Minister of Economy, Serge Massawatch to launch like frozen prices during the month of December.

In this context, Tombolini demanded that the chains, in advance, «do not accept price lists with increases higher than 4% “.

In this way, what is sought is the deactivation by the consumer companies that carry out a increases “damper”before applying a new block.

According to estimates by private consultants, inflation it would again exceed 6% in the last month. This figure, added to the political pressure of Vice President Cristina Kirchner on Massa for the control of “food companies”, is the framework in which the Minister of Economy prepares a new freeze.

Massa announced on Monday that they are working on a price freeze for 1,500 products for four months in December, even if the consumer companies indicated that they had no news on the matter, after some preliminary meetings that took place two weeks ago.