A new fact marks the blow to the pocket. If March inflation showed a jump, that was also reflected in the fall of mass consumption. According to the Sentia consultancy data, which measures hundreds of neighborhood chains and stores, the purchase in supermarkets and self -services contracted 5.4% year -on -year. The scope newspaper that already accumulates a decrease of 8.6% contraction in the first quarter of 2025.
While January and February had had high numbers, from the seasonal point of view we are facing a very strong fall. According to specialists, it is the third worst brand in the last 22 years. The above had been in the 2002 and 2003 crisis.
If we expand the focus, we are talking about a fall that has already been in a row. In fact, the comparison with March 2024 shows another worrying fact: at that time it was 4% but the devaluation of December was being felt. Now we are facing a moment of lower inflation. In other words, we are facing a structural and deep impoverishment of the population, since “low” inflation does not guarantee access to more consumer goods.
Two categories were saved from the fall: food and perishable. Others were more beaten: drinks, hygiene and cosmetics, breakfast and snack and “impulsive purchases” (desserts or cigarettes).
However, supermarket foods and chains have continued to win. A series of studies reflected in 2024 the increase in extraordinary profits: an increasingly important percentage of sales will stop to business “profits”.
These tendencies are going to deepen, since the agreement with the Monetary Fund and the devaluation provides an increase in inflation for April and May. There was already a 9% remark in large chains.
It is a very particular freedom: entrepreneurs can say goodbye, banks and soybeans can speculate, but the working people cannot have free joints or eat well. Not to mention a dessert or “a taste.” The Government wants to get used to that misery, the Peronism that we resign to it with the promise that in 2027 “the roast returns.” We are still waiting for Alberto’s.
The Left Front proposes: Emergency increase for salaries and retirement, trigger clause to update income according to real inflation, price control by workers, social and consumers, so that they do not speculate with the popular pocket.
Source: www.laizquierdadiario.com
