The Government, through the Secretary of Commerce led by Matías Tombolini, issued 769 fines against food companies and supermarkets in one week, for breaches of the Fair Prices.
As detailed by the Secretariat, the fines amount to $806,450,000, since in the surveillance and control actions carried out by the agency to comply with the program of Fair Prices Several irregularities were detected.
Among the most frequent faults are the lack of products, posters, signage, double labeling, among others, for which Tombolini asserted that they will not allow breaches in Fair Prices.
In this regard, he explained: “This week we are with 769 fines for $806,450,000 for lack of stock, lack of signage, use of posters in gondolas on products that are not part of the program, duplication of labeling”with which he also stressed that if these abuses are allowed, predictability cannot be brought to homes.
It also detailed that the fines “were deployed both in supermarket chains such as Día, Carrefour, those of the Cencosud Group (Disco, Vea, Jumbo) and the wholesaler Maxiconsumo as well as in food companies such as Cabrales and Nestlé.”
Tombolini also explained that the operations are “one more step in this idea that we cannot bring order to prices if we allow abuses, we work on complaints from inspectors and neighbors and deploy lightning operations.”
And he added: “We received five alerts in a very short period of time. This indicates a severe shortage that was later verified, deploying an operation at night where we found 32 products that were directly out of stock and more than 14 products that had a missing”.
Almost 2,000 products are adhered to Fair Prices
With the relaunch of programthe Government managed to freeze the prices of almost 2,000 consumer products for 120 days. Additionally, through voluntary agreements with producing and marketing companies, an increase limit of 3.2% was set..
For their part, the almost 30,000 products that are not listed will have a 4% increase guideline. The products can be obtained in the main supermarket chains throughout the country.
