Feletti has been meeting with food companies over a lack of supply and threatening more controls

Domestic Trade Secretary Roberto Feletti will meet this Friday morning with Molinos, Arcor, Unilever, Mondelez, Danone, Mastellone and Nestlé. They hope to assess the factors affecting the normal supply of the Price Care agreement.

The meeting, scheduled for 11, with major companies in the food sector will be held after determining the supermarkets a decrease in the supply of products that make up the program.

In recent inspections, the Secretariat noticed several shortages in gondolas consistent with Care Prices program products therefore, it expects companies to analyze the factors affecting the normal supply of the agreement.

On Thursday morning, the spokeswoman for the Presidency, Gabriela Cerruti, affirmed that April inflation was “a little lower” than 6.7% registered in March, although he warned that “it doesn’t mean it’s no longer a problem” where “you have to keep dealing with it throughout the year”.

“The government is committed to sustaining growth and it has redistribution,” Cerruti said.

There is also a lack of meat supply

In gondolas, there are also very few cuts of meat labeled lower price included in the official program. According to a tour done by Clarín, the presence of trays with such prices has a different following: in some cases, the discounts available in supermarkets do not exist. Others, the offer complies with regulations and among others, it is minimal or limited to less demanding reductions.

However, the Government has published in the Official Gazette the updated list of the most popular cuts of meat that can be established according to an agreement on refrigerators. These prices (except the Patagonian region) were announced on April 7 along with the + Care Prices, when the listings for the first quarter were renewed.

This is resolution 405/2022, which “confirmed the recommended price lists for meat cuts, on April 8, 2022, in accordance with the addendum to the agreements reached on the‘+ Prices Program Take care, ’” said text.

According to official information, the price list applies to the metropolitan area of ​​Buenos Aires and within the country. The values ​​are as follows: strip roast $ 679; empty $ 815; $ 810 kill; skirt $ 449; grilled cover $ 679; buttock $ 859 and palette $ 699.

While, in the Patagonian region, strip roast or skirt steak is not included, and for the remaining five cuts the prices are: $ 879 for both empty meat and matambre, $ 698 for roast tapa, $ 899 for butt and $ 739 for the palette.

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