The Ministry of Commerce fined several supermarket chains for more than $400 million for non-compliance with respect to prices, stock and signage of the Care Prices program, reported the state agency.
For violations of articles 4 and 7 of the Consumer Defense Law (No. 24,240), Carrefour supermarkets were fined $217,500,000; Day, with $138,600,000; and Walmart, with $26,600,000.
Jumbo was also sanctioned for $19,200,000; Reserve, with $ 2,400,000; and Josimar, with $450,000.
The fines made effective by the Secretariat reach a total of $404,750,000 and, in this way. “Compliance with pending infractions is regularized, streamlined and ordered in the 2020 and 2022 periods,” Commerce said in a statement.
A) Yes, the Secretary of Commerce “is working on ordering prices to bring predictability to the table of the Argentines”, and reported that, in addition to regularizing the fines, “the trust processes are being streamlined and the new system for the traceability of imports is being implemented”.
Along the same lines, the national 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.
Also, Secretariat verifiers lead daily operations in different businessesto corroborate compliance with the voluntary agreements established with different sectors.