The Secretary of Commerce, preceded by Marías Tombolini, fined several chains of supermarkets for more than 400 million pesos, due to breaches of the Care Prices program.
The offenses carried out by Business were in prices, stock and signaling of the articles of the aforementioned program that assigns prices through a voluntary agreement of supermarkets with the government.
For violations of articles 4 and 7 of the Consumer Protection Law (No. 24,240), the supermarkets Carrefour, fined $217,500,000; Day, with $138,600,000; Walmart, with $26,600,000; also Jumbo for $19,200,000; Coto, with $2,400,000; and Josimar for $450,000.
The total of the fines given by the Secretariat reaches a total of $404,750,000. Through a statement, Commerce explained that “compliance with pending infractions is regularized, streamlined and ordered in the period 2020 and 2022.”
Meanwhile, verifiers from the Ministry of Commerce launch daily operations in different shops to corroborate compliance with the voluntary agreements that are established.
Actions of the Secretary of Domestic Trade
The Secretary of Commerce “is working on ordering prices to bring predictability to the tables of Argentines” and reported that, beyond regularizing the fines, it “they are speeding up the trust processes and putting into operation the new order for the traceability of imports”.
In the same direction, the Government published on Friday in the Official Gazette the resolution that reinforces the control of labels and labels to avoid confusion of products when buying.
