Starting this Thursday, March 17, and every Thursday for three months, consumers can be purchased in various supermarkets from the country, combos valued at 1,000 pesos and will have nine basic products with a discount of around 30%.
the chains of supermarkets from the mermaid, lama square, National Slope Center, Iberia and The fountain will dispatch a basket made up of select rice, pinto beans, oil, egg carton, salami, spaghetti, tomato paste, sardines and frozen chicken.
These offers are the result of an agreement between the General Directorate of Strategic and Special Projects of the Presidency (Propeep), the Price Stabilization Institute (Inespre) and commercial establishments. The campaign they launched is called “Buy at Inespre’s Price in the Supermarket”.
According to Inespre, prices will be reviewed weekly and prices will be agreed according to a discount line so that the product combo has an average discount of 30%.
“The prices and products can vary for weeks, but the idea is that, if a person buys the nine products of the basic basket that will be discounted in a specific brand (select rice of 10 pounds, pinto beans of 800 grams, oil of 16 ounces, 30-unit egg carton, two pounds of salami, 400-gram spaghetti, 16-ounce tomato paste, three 125-gram sardines, and approximately 3.5 pounds of frozen chicken), spent a total of 1,000 pesos,” explained the Ramos Group to Diario Libre.
According to the data provided, all supermarkets They will handle the same prices for all products, however, the brand and presentation of a certain product may vary and, therefore, the savings as well.
The products will be offered during the usual hours of the supermarkets and the stores will have a specific space where they will be displayed, except for frozen chicken and salami, which will be in the refrigerator. “The exhibition will be fixed and the special price will be posted on Thursdays.”
Inespre explained that the limitation of this process is that it will be dispatched a combo for each consumer and will market products while supplies last. In addition, it will last three months in its first stage.
The agreement was signed between the directors of Propeep, José Leonel Cabrera (Neney); the director of Inespre, Iván Hernández Guzmán and Mario Lama, president of Grupo Lama and other businesses.
The National Slope Center reported that the combos will be available in both supermarkets National as Jumbo every Thursday starting today. “This initiative is carried out with the intention of contributing to Dominican families so that they can stock up on everything they need for their home at a special price,” said José Miguel González, executive president of CCN.
Government representatives and supermarkets They took this initiative as a result of the uncertainty that the war in Ukraine has caused in international markets, which has worsened the situation generated by the COVID-19 pandemic.
