Meeting in Florida, the border will meet with Oddone in May
Within the framework of the celebrations of the 95 years of the foundation of the Florida Shopping Center, the Chamber of Commerce and Services of Uruguay met in the capital of La Piedra Alta.
In relation to the situation of the Frontera departments, a meeting with the Minister of Economy and Finance is confirmed for the first days of May, meeting that will take place in the city of Artigas.
“We were in the 1st Meeting of the Chamber of Commerce that this year was made in the city of Florida in honor of the 95 years of the shopping center of that department” confirmed Andrés Martínez to The daily professional.
“We attend because it is a very strong economically institution and also to bring some ideas that make our trade more competitive” commented.
“Specifically we were with the idea of obtaining more information about the points system that can be implemented by purchases in local shops” held. “Every time one buys something, he obtains a certain number of points within the shops that want to adhere to the system. We are studying it to see if it is viable here in the department. It would be an aid for our trade, we know that the public likes to accumulate points. In that way we would compete with some more important businesses” pointed out.
Online purchases increase
There is concern about the exponential increase that purchases are remote. “It is another important issue. The commercial part with the political part is being strongly moving to try to put a brake on this system. We know that people have the right to buy where they are cheaper, but this has to be competitively with the established trade.” The president of the Shopping Center of Cerro Largo said.
“There are new platforms such as Mercado Pago and Temu. Since the entrance of the latter, online purchases have grown a lot,” revealed. “Since the last months of last year they had already been rising at a sustained pace, but in February of this year they took off. A few USDE 15,000,000 were spent on purchases abroad. Yes we made a projection we would be talking about USD 180,000,000 a year that would be spent on that type of purchases that do not carry taxes and are free of many expenses” said.
“That way commercial competitiveness becomes quite difficult. For us it is a very important issue” Andrés Martínez stressed.
Meeting with the Minister of Economy
The shopping centers and business chambers of the border departments, nucleated in CEDU, will maintain contact with economist Gabriel Oddone in the first days of next May.
“It will be done in the city of Artigas. It will be an important instance because we will be looking and observing how reality works on the border” considered.
“We are talking about a very border capital city, which is linked with Brazil through a bridge. It is that the authorities know firsthand a reality that is sometimes not understood from the capital of the country” He pointed out.
“The problems of all departments are different. It is not the same jump as Melo. Idiosyncrasy are different. Beyond that, the exchange difference has been harming us, mainly in labor sources. Here we are fighting so that trade can continue to grow and generate more jobs. That is what generates a chain of expenses in the environment itself” Andrés Martínez, president of the Commercial and Industrial Center of Cerro Largo closed.
