The price difference between the packed when compared to the supermarkets and markets has caused the consumers Show your disagreement on social networks and the different platforms available to you. About this theme, Pro Consumer An operation will begin next week to detect commercial speculation, not price speculation.
“I shop at packed punctual things such as water, soft drinks, personal hygiene products and other things that can run out and one needs them immediately. But afterwards you can’t buy much in the packedbecause they kill one with prices, they are abusers,” said Santa Sepúlveda, who is an accountant by profession.
Sepúlveda, like other people consulted, agrees that products such as soft drinks, milk, bananas, chicken and groceries have a very marked difference. To the writing of this newspaper a reader gave as an example that a liter of milk in supermarkets costs between RD$55 and RD$65, and in packed They sell it for RD$100.00; a double liter of soft drink in supermarkets is shipped to the public at RD$70 and in packed RD$100, and a roll of paper towel in supermarkets it is sold at RD$65, but in packed at RD$100.
Given the constant complaints on this issue, the executive director of the National Institute for the Protection of Consumer Rights (Pro Consumer), Eddy Alcantarasaid to Free Journal that there is no reason for prices to be so different between establishments.
“The concern exists. There is no reason for them to packed are obtaining margins so broadly, regardless of whether there is a free market, because we have to think not only about individual benefits, but also about the universal economic situation we are going through, and that the country needs the collaboration of all sectors productive,” said the official.
He said that, starting next Monday, February 21, operations will begin to check if there is any type of commercial speculation, not price speculation, because there is a free market in the Dominican Republic.
“In the event that we can verify that there is some type of speculation seeking greater benefits in the market, we can intervene there. Those products, of which the majority of Dominicans have complained on the different platforms of Pro Consumer and some in person, are the products that correspond to the basic basket, “he said.
He added that there have always been differences between the prices of packed, supermarkets and markets, but now, seeing how wide the increase is among the packed and other marketing centers for basic basket products, has drawn the attention of Pro Consumer.
According to data obtained by Diario Libre, in the Dominican Republic there are more than 75,000 grocery stores, with an average of three employees. One of the disadvantages that grocery stores have compared to supermarkets and markets is the volume of purchases and sales. In addition, that the product, before reaching the grocery store, passes through several hands that in the end impacts the prices to the final consumer.
