The provincial government of Havana takes a further step in rationing, by announcing new limitations for the sale of products through state businesses that sell in national currency starting next Friday, May 27.
A month after it was announced that it could only be purchased in stores of the municipality of residencethe new provisions force to go within more restricted spaces.
Through the new regulations, in addition, the wineries will be linked to the Cimex and Caribe stores.
According to a note released this Tuesday by local authorities, the reorganization is carried out “with the aim of reducing the crowding of people in establishments and the need for better marketing of the products most in demand by the population.”
Another of the novelties that come into force this week is a reform in the “organization by cycle” of the sale, so that a new cycle will not begin until 90% of the family units attached to the assigned establishment have not made their buy.
How these cycles are going to be defined is one of the questions of the population. “Will the cycle be by products or will it start one day of the month from what is in the store’s warehouse?” Asked a customer who just found out about the regulations outside the La Mariposa store, in New Vedado.
“If the cycles are for products, then this is going to be chaos, but if they do it in another way, then it will be necessary to sleep several days before outside the store”
“If the cycles are for products, then this is going to be chaos, but if they do it in another way, then it will be necessary to sleep several days before outside the store to be able to reach the greatest amount of food at the beginning of the cycle,” the woman ventured. The market workers had no answers to those questions.
The measure, yes, does not include stores in freely convertible currency (MLC), which continue to be outside the purchase restrictions by municipality. This morning, in the market on Boyeros and Camagüey streets, several customers inquired with the employees about the possibility that the regulations reach those businesses.
“We have not received any official communication about that, so we will continue to operate as we have done up to now,” a local worker told this newspaper. In the store they do not require to show the identity card either to access or when paying, although it is mandatory to present a bank card in MLC associated with a national bank or a Visa or Mastercard from a foreign bank that is not American.
Most products are still not rationed, although there are quantity restrictions on frozen chicken, sausages, tuna and other frozen or meat products.
On the other hand, in stores in pesos, purchases will continue to be written down in the notebook and limitations will be applied to the number of products that can be carried based on availability.
It will also continue to be an essential requirement to show the identity card, which will be scanned to have a record of what has already been withdrawn.
At the entrance of the establishment, “a primary control model will be established where the nucleus number will be registered” that must be supervised by a representative of the so-called Fight Against Coleros, a verification mechanism introduced by the Government in August 2020 and that It basically consists of having agents at the doors of stores to ensure that buyers do so in accordance with established rules, aided by a series of technological tools.
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