After the meetings and the deliberations of the marathon, this Friday the government will finally present the fair pricing programa resource devised by officials to mitigate inflation in the most essential purchases: food, beverages and products for cleaning and personal hygiene.
The program will last for four months and will cover approximately 1,500 products, as announced by the Minister of Economy Sergio Massa. From that ministry they clarify that this is not a price freeze but a “voluntary agreement between the state, consumer goods companies, wholesalers and supermarkets”.
The agreement provides that “the products that will remain with fixed prices enter the program at a price up to 4% above average recorded in October 2022 and will remain stable for the next 120 days “.
While the rest of the products sold by the companies participating in the program will have a monthly guideline of up to 4% increase for the same 120 days of the selling price to supermarkets and wholesalers “. will include the 453 items of the Care Prices plan, which was renovated in early October.
In the negotiation, the entrepreneurs who pledged to support the prices, obtained in exchange the commitment of the state to have the more oiled the process of importing goods intermediate and finished products that are part of the value chain.
About a hundred companies participate in the agreement, representing 86% of the country’s mass consumption and among which stand out Molinos, Coca Cola, Unilever, Quilmes, Mastellone, AGD, Ledesma and Las Marías, Moreover. “In addition, supermarkets will be able to supply products of own brands“, has indicated.
Interested parties will be able to consult the products and commercial chains that have joined the program by entering – from Friday – on https://www.argentina.gob.ar/preciosjustos or via a mobile application, available on Android and IOS, in addition to two chatbots for the retail channel (+54 9 11 2879 0887) and the wholesale channel (+54 9 11 2524 4728), according to the Telam agency.
Regarding the supervision of the program to corroborate compliance with the price agreements, the Ministry of Commerce plans to sign agreements with the mayors to strengthen the monitoring.
The Secretariat will provide the Municipalities with “the technical guidelines and the training necessary to carry out the investigations and then the sanctioning process will be carried out through the usual mechanisms carried out by the Undersecretary for Consumer Defense”, explained the guided distribution of Matias Tombolini.
The agreements “will be replicated with several municipalities on the national territory to strengthen the federal nature of the provision” and, in turn, Commercio specified that “it will divert 25% of the proceeds of the sanctions imposed in each district to the corresponding local authority,” official agency.
In any case, the Secretariat will continue to monitor price changes on a daily basis through the Argentine Electronic Price Advertising System (SEPA).
To reinforce the idea of putting a stop to increases, Several social organizations, meanwhile, plan to present themselves – today – in front of the United Supermarkets Association and at the door of 20 AMBA supermarketsto convey your proposal.
In essence, the social representatives will propose to ASU, “that prices are frozen and that the law on the offer is applied to those who do not respect; that the law of the gondola is applied to break the monopoly positions and that supermarkets provide about three million baskets at Christmas holidays at 50% of their value for families affected by poverty and destitution From the government, they expect, as long as it applies “urgent measures to restore the income of the working class as a whole “, they noted in a statement.
Source: Clarin
