They will try to increase prices less than naphtha to not lose more sales | Cuyo Newspaper

In an attempt to stop losing sales, which are already complicated, merchants and businessmen in San Juan talk about switching to price lists for groceries and clothing a lower percentage at the last naphtha rise held on Sunday, which was 5%. The strategy will seek to cushion the effects of cimbronazo which, under normal circumstances, would have meant that any fuel increase was applied to market values. In the sector they estimate that in a few weeks they will start to perceive the new costs of the products, which have not yet defined them.

"Under normal circumstances all the fuel increase goes to item prices, but in a scenario of weak sales and almost daily increases like now is not going to happen," said Alejandro Donna , from the House of Supermarkets and Self-Service San Juan. And with him coincided Hermes Rodriguez, of the Chamber of Commerce. "The problem is that sources of work can be lost," said the official.

The strong impact of the fuel increase is due to the fact that it directly affects the freight cost of the goods. And since San Juan is very far from the main supplier centers, the effect is almost immediate.

Before consulting this newspaper, Donna calculated a little over a week ago that local supermarket sales had dropped in June. comparison with the same month of last year, 10%. The phenomenon is the product of the sharp rise in prices of the past 60 days, which has worsened with the exchange rate and the high impact of rising food prices. The data corresponded to local businesses and not to large commercial chains operating in the province.

Jose Maldonado, owner of Union Owners of Trucks (Uprocam), spoke of the impossibility of "absorbing" the increase in fuels. Hugo Goransky, head of the Industrial Union, said that both the purchase of inputs as the shipment of products depended on freight rates, and that they do not. had no choice but to transfer them to the tariffs.

Even though we expected an increase in liquid fuels of the order of 3%, the national oil company YPF, the largest in the market, went from zero Sunday time at 5% of the price of gasoline. gasoline and diesel. In practice, the Super was $ 30.14, Infinia $ 35.56. $ 500 Diesel $ 6.13 and Infinia Diesel $ 31.17. To be more precise, we can add that the Super increased by $ 1.44 (5.02%). Infinia's $ 2.63 (7.98%), the $ 500 Diesel $ 1.24 (4.97%) and the Infinia Diesel $ 2.31 (8%). With this increase, the fuel market is growing by 23% in the year.

Although the oil companies have agreed with the former minister Juan Jose Aranguren of a 3% rise, the peso devaluation against the escalating dollar, which climbed Friday to 29, $ 50, changed the outlook and thus let the freezing of rates promised by the former truncated official. As YPF is a leader in the sector, the rest of the companies will follow the policy of this company because they also have values ​​backward compared to the latest movements in the local exchange rate. A few days ago again, the owner of the Chamber of Dust Collectors, Analía Salguero, spoke of a "delay" which in the area is estimated between 27 and 30%. The chief argued at that time that "fuel is a product that is bought in dollars and sold in pesos, and if that does not accompany the depreciation of our currency, the case is untenable."

The sum

23 This is the percentage increase that liquid fuels have had so far this year in the country. At 18% of the trail was added the 5% applied from the 0 hours last Sunday.

Unregulated

The fuel market in the country is deregulated, which means that in practice, each company applies its own pricing policy. But whoever runs the market is the YPF state and when he has an increase, the others follow him so as not to be left behind.

A Fall Without Brake

None of the operations for Father's Day, one of the most anticipated dates for the San Juan merchants, reached the June sales, which fell 3.8% from the same month last year, according to data from the San Juan Chamber of Commerce. With this figure, the sixth month of the year had the worst record up here in 2018. Thus, February remains the only month that ended in a positive balance, with an increase of 1 , 4%.

Information provided by the Chamber of Commerce, in the last month the most affected items were costumes, shoes and food. "There is a significant decline in the consumption of dairy products and flour in general," said Hermes Rodríguez, president of the entity.

It must be remembered that during the first month of the year, the drop was 2.2%; in March, the decline reached 1.6%; and in April the decline was 1.8%. Last May, the decline in sales reached 3.5%.

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