Super Wednesday remissions in the province come back, but in a lighter version

The government of Maria Eugenia Vidal decided to replace the system of discounts on purchases with Banco Provincia cards in supermarkets and merchants of the province of Buenos Aires, as an attempt to reactivate consumption and contain the social badness generalized by the inflationary escalation.

The promotion raging last year and lasted until the October election, comes back in a much more austere version. The reinstatement ceiling will be 1500 pesos, that is, there is no update regarding 2017 amounts, so cumulative inflation will have to be subtracted. and it will only reach a few products.

In this opportunity, the profit will be effective for the purchase of food and will be limited to retail stores. It will include food, fresh produce, fruits and vegetables, soft drinks, cleaning products, pork and only three pieces of beef: roast beef, shoulder and roast beef.

It is July 18, that is, the third Wednesday of the current month, and the goal of maintaining the promo at least until the end of the month. winter, with the goal of containing the discomfort caused by the rise in retail prices.

Anyway, without an update of the refund cap, the measure could generate little enthusiasm, and between cumulative inflation of more than 30 percent from the last 12 months and the devaluation of the dollar, the power of purchase of 1500 percent was reduced at least half of last year.

Immediately after its launch, the benefit generated a shopping boom because for each card, a discount of 1500 pesos was granted, that is, if milia had two members with credit and plastic flow of BAPRO, they could save up to 6 thousand pesos.

However, a subsequent resolution of the bank corrected this situation and the ceiling began to be limited per person, regardless of the number of cards and the effect of the promotion decreased