In full tourist season, the level of prices in Atlántida, Piriápolis and Punta del Este are located without exceptions above those of Montevideo in supermarkets of the same chains, according to a report published by the Consumer Defense area of the General Directorate of Commerce of the MEF.
To make the comparison, the values of branches of English Store, Disco, Devoto and Devoto Express, which are present both in Montevideo and in the locations surveyed in the east.
In Punta del Este, the average premium was 6% in the first half of January, compared to 4.8% and 6.1% in the first fortnights of November and December, respectively. In January of last year, the difference was almost 3.1 points lower than the current. It should be noted that last year the country faced a more complex panorama for tourism because there was still no vaccination against the coronavirus and international mobility was more restrictive, something that hit the activity of last summer season.
If separated by strings, Disk presented in the first two weeks of January prices 6.38% higher than those of Montevideo while english store did it in 7.14%.
Piriapolis, where the only one of the attached strings is Devotee, he was 5.78% more expensive than Montevideo in the first fortnight of this month. In the same period last year, the figure was 3.22%.
In atlantis, the average was a 2.08% above Montevideo prices the first fifteen days of December and, as happened in Punta del Este, the highest price premium was in English store (3.72%). In Disk was almost nil for this locality (0.13%).
As in the December survey, the official January publication showed that the surcharge increases with the distance to Montevideo, at least to Punta del Este. In general, the price premiums for January, December and November were more pronounced this time than in the same months of 2020-2021.
