The kilo of chicken yesterday was high, since it was sold at 10.50 soles per kilo in the ex-Maltería wholesale market. Despite the fact that the product was not fresh, many housewives bought it, fearing that for today there would be a shortage, since the product arrives from Lima and as announced for today and tomorrow a stoppage of heavy cargo transportation is feared the lack of products in the wholesale and retail stalls of the supply centers of the city of Huancayo.
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In the Modelo market, the merchants said they will sell everything they have left and if the chicken does not arrive tomorrow (today), they will close their stalls.
Another product that came out a lot was horse mackerel and bonito fish in the Modelo market, since many families choose to prepare ceviche on Sundays. The merchants said that they had supplies since the last Saturday that the cargo arrived, but they do not know what will happen tomorrow, in any case they will sell the frozen fish that they have in their refrigerators.
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“For Monday, (today) we are going to sell the frozen fish, which we have stored in the refrigerator, but for Tuesday we do not know if more cargo will arrive,” said the merchant Fabiola Balbín Chamorro.