Prices Care: alert for shortages in the province of Buenos Aires

This Thursday, July 7, is the last validity of the program of Prices Care that leads the Ministry of Internal Trade, and while the Government advances in negotiations with businessmen, from the province of Buenos Aires they warned that there is a shortage in the gondolas.

This, given that the Ministry of Production, Science and Technological Innovation of the province initiated a control and surveillance campaign in supermarkets to verify compliance with the Program and ensure that there is always stock of products with Prices Care.

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In said control process in the products of Prices Care the ministry noted: “After several weeks of observing good compliance by the chains, Problems in the supply of products from the food basket, beverages, personal hygiene and cleaning are registered again”.

The official statement from the Production portfolio also indicated: “In terms of compliance with prices and signaling of the products in the basket, good indicators remain.”

Several supermarkets are attached to the program.

According to the complaint, there are supply problems in chains such as: Carrefour, Changomás, Coto, Día, Disco, Jumbo, Vea and Vital, who argue that the problem is due to the lack of supply from suppliers.

During the control operation, “imputations were also made for lack of identification of the price per liter and kilo (unit of measure), lack of previous price in offers, and sale by weight without a label with content specifications.”