In another twist on the same recipe that Roberto Feletti applied at the time, the Secretary of Commerce, Matías Tombolini, reached an agreement to sets the price of 6 fresh products but only for 30 days. This fruit and vegetable basket, which It will be valid during the month of March, contains black potatoes ($189), round tomatoes ($299), seasonal lettuce ($569), Royal Gala apple ($399), onion ($189), and two types of banana: one Ecuadorian ($470) and one “subtropical” ($360). The idea is to go and renegotiate products and prices month by month, as entrusted to clarion official and private sources.
This new version of the “frescoes” basket. It will be available in AMBA supermarkets and in the Central Market, so that the freeze reaches the greengrocers. The details of the agreement will be announced this afternoon by Tombolini himself, who had already expressed concern about the impact on general inflation of the “seasonal” increases of some products.
The official concern is that fruit and vegetables have been the item that has increased the most in recent months. For example, in January tomato increased by 64.8%, apple by 31% and potato by 24.7%. This month, private advisors expect food and drink to be up more than 7%, which is far more than general inflation. Hence the concern of Tombolini, who insists on expanding his favorite formula: price agreements for almost all items, in exchange for the supply of dollars from reserves to companies to be able to import.
The most striking thing is that in April last year, and with the same arguments, Feletti also launched a new basket, limited to large chains, which represent 31% of mass product sales. That first basket contained almost the same products as the current one., except bananas: black potato, onion, round tomato, lettuce and apple. Feletti surprisingly resigned then Economy Minister Martín Guzmán.
Source: Clarin
