Consumption in shopping malls rose 12% in May by buying TVs for the world

The Argentine team left too early in Russia in 2018 but, in the previous one, shopping centers and supermarkets won their own World Cup in May 1945 : the sale of all kinds of Products increases by 12% and 3 The electronics sector recorded an increase of respectively 78.3% and 86%.

The National Institute of Statistics and Censuses (INDEC) reported Thursday that shopping center sales in May reached $ 4,260. , 9 million, or 12% more than the same month of the previous year (at constant prices in April 2016).

In the distribution of the report, the sales of products "electronics, electrical appliances and computer science" rose of 78,3% in the commercial centers of Greater Buenos Aires (GBA).

One out of every six pesos spent in these stores was for electronics. Due to the "World Cup fever" and company offers, football fans bought 1.37 billion TVs between April and June according to the Federation of Commerce and Industry. Industry of the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires (Fecoba)

In supermarkets, sales have also increased, albeit more modestly. According to Indec, families spent $ 21,680.8 million in May, up 3.6% from the same month of the previous year (constant prices in April 2016).

Among the main products of supermarkets, and beverages (22.4%), clothing, footwear and textiles (26%) and cleaning and perfumery articles (15.5%). And, again, electronic products filled trolleys: 86% .