Cars, lawyers and leds. How the unexpected post-PASS economy is experienced on the street

Car dealers have suspended their sales by order of terminals. The lawyer has gone from $ 2,000 to $ 3,000 per drawer in the central market. A clothing house has automatically increased its prices by 20%, as well as a reputed appliance chain. These are all postcard Argentina postcards, in which the dollar jump sets the tone of life.

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the dollar has exploded, which, in these latitudes, means only one thing: the rapid transfer to pesos prices of imported products or components coming from abroad.

Julian has been up since 4 am Three times a week, he leaves the bed at that time to buy fruits and vegetables at the central market. Standing in the middle of the drawers in his office, located in Billinghurst and Güemes, he recounts what he had experienced a few hours ago: "Everything has gone up by 20% and more, too. The lawyer, for example, went from $ 2,000 to $ 3,000, and we do not even sell for a kilo.

Fernando La Valle, one of the owners of the Libertador Frutería, founded in 1969 and located at Juan F. Follow 4434, says that the peaches from Spain, to name only these, must be sold at a price of $ 230 per kilo. "There has been an increase in the price of everything imported, especially avocado, banana and pineapple." To give you an idea, we say that high quality banana , which comes from Ecuador, will cost $ 1,000 drawer, "says La Valle.

The effect of rising dollar reaches the operations specified by Mercado Libre. Gustavo Biondini, a dog walker who works in the Recoleta area, recounts his case. He bought a Brogas brand stove the day before yesterday, priced at 1499 dollars, that he paid and received confirmation and details of his purchase, but the operation was not successful . "They have just sent me a cancellation message," he says. The message says: "… the Brogas company does not deliver merchandise for the dollar until next week …". Biondini's conclusion does not take long: "Imagine if this happens with a kitchen at $ 1499, what should happen to the rest!"

Meanwhile, in a local clothing brand Salomon, located in Alto Palermo, everything is already 20% more expensive than last Friday. "We have nothing to point out because the prices are already updated directly from the central house," says Julian, one of the employees, whose only business facing customer void is his service partner customer.

In the case of home appliances, the chains have two things to say: the first is that Monday, very early, sales have flown. "Because people wanted to cover what could happen next, when the dollar exploded," says Claudio, an employee of Garbarino's office, located on Santa Fe Avenue 3211. The second: the transfer to rising dollar prices "C & Was in the morning because in the afternoon we already had the new price lists with a 20% increase, "he adds.

It is 11:30 in the morning and there is not a single buyer at the mentioned place. Outside, almost next door, the painting of a foreign exchange house indicates that the dollar is 51 dollars for the purchase and 57 dollars for the sale. "Many people come to buy," says the boy who delivers flyers to the door. "More than other days, of course."

Andrés Silva, a dog walker who works in the Retiro area, said that he had discovered two days ago, when he had to renew the pet food order, that one of the best-known brands had already increased its prices% and 25%. "What I did was not to buy and start calculating prices everywhere, but sooner or later I will have to replenish the food," he says.

A totally different product, cars, has gone straight to a more radical solution. According to Álvaro, sales manager at the SVA dealership, which markets the Peugeot brand to Scalabrini Ortiz 950, confirms that sales have been suspended. "The order is falling from factories and is the same for all terminals, they prefer not to sell, rather than stepping on the price, this happens every time the dollar goes up, it's sung," he says.

The seller of SVA provides something else outside his area. "I have a friend who sells pet food and who has told me that he had asked for the order placed on Friday and that his supplier had told him that he was n & # 39; He was not going to send it, that he had canceled the order. Nobody wants to sell without a price, "he says.

Gabriel Tomas, president of Iron Group, a company that sells construction machinery, says his price list is in dollars. "So for my buyer, the impact in pesos is immediate.What I do, is finance up to 80% of equipments in pesos, at 2% per month, up to 39 to 18 installments, "he says.

In Meditarranean SA, a company dedicated to wholesale hardware, confirms that prices rose 20% yesterday compared to Friday's values. "In our field, I talked to colleagues who confirmed that they had made the same adjustment and are waiting to see how the dollar price will change this week." I also know other colleagues who gave a holiday this week and others who have suspended their sales. "says Rodolfo, head of the sales office of this Cordoba company in Buenos Aires.

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