After the devaluation announced by Javier Milei and Luis Caputo began the Price highlights. Large food companies (Unilever, Molinos, Molino Cañuelas, Oil General Deheza, among others) delivered to supermarkets and businesses price lists with rises of up to 9%, according to the journalist Alejandro Bercovich. Inflation is reheated, which will hit the purchasing power of wages, retirements and social programs.
In the same vein, Germán Romero, the director of the Store Center of Córdoba, in dialogue with Radio 750, said that “the dairy arrived in a timely manner, then began to suspend deliveries.” “Today it began with a 5% increase, 7% in cheeses, cookies and noodles with a 6% increase and then the rest is not coming. The oil is something that is scarce in the wholesalers of Córdoba,” he added.
Romero said that “some wholesalers tell us that the average increase would be 10% applicable a part this week and the rest that comes. The increases are moved directly to the price.”
Fernando Savore, vice president of the Federation of Store of the Province of Buenos Aires, declared in C5N that “the issue is not the increase as of today, but the increase we had since the month of March. That is March, it was a month where the oil rose more than 10% certain coffee brands 8%, dairy has 2%, plus 2%, plus 3%and more 2.9%”.
Savare warned that “coffee increased more than 10%, theme cookies had an increase between 5%and 7%, dairy of 2.9%but say with the drag of the whole month it reached 10%.”
There was also an increase in meat prices. In butchers the listings on Tuesday show increases of up to 36%, with an average around 30%.
The winners are the large food companies that have already won millions. In 2024 Arcor and Molinos won together $ 315,587 million.
The luxury of eating
The Food inflation In March he climbed to 5,9% According to INDEC and was prior to the devaluation imposed by the IMF. In April, inflation will remain at high levels. The increase in food prices hits more strongly in the lower income sectors that allocate a greater proportion, which dedicate most of food.
According to INDEC, within the March rises stands out The increase in prices in vegetables, tubers and legumes and meats and derivatives.
Among the First 10 food and drinks that more climbed in March in Greater Buenos Aires (GBA) are: Round tomato (106%), lettuce (73%), potato (28%), orange (12%), chicken (10%), ground coffee (9%), quadrile (8%), chicken eggs (8%), palette (8%), buttock (7%).
In the race to preserve the profitability margins, the economic groups that have the greatest concentration in the production and marketing of the goods, carry those of winning. They can influence prices fixing and thus take advantage. The opposite happens in the case of salary. The working class clearly runs in inferior conditions in the face of price trainers that in a capitalist economy are entrepreneurs and, in particular, those great players.
The different devaluatory events of the last decades had a central objective: reduce the salary cost in dollars and pesos, attack the purchasing power of salary. In this devaluation context, the government imposed ceilings on the parity of 1% monthly.
The lifetime and prices that are stressed make the mobilization by emergency measures urgent to prevent the price rise from devouring the salary. It is necessary an emergency increase in salaries, retirements and social programs that place the minimum to the value of the family basket (In March: $ 1,100,267), the incorporation of trigger clauses that updated the salary month by month according to inflation and we must fight to recover everything lost in recent years.
Source: www.laizquierdadiario.com
