He bread price will go up about a 6% from Monday, February 6, and soon, consequently, the kilo will be among the 460 and 480 pesos in the AMBA regionaccording to information from bakery centers.
Thus, bread joins a list of products that continue to show rises, among them the meatwhose increase arouses concern among economists due to its strong inflationary seasoning.
“Lamentand we have no other alternativebefore the repeated increases that we have been affecting in the rates of energy, fuels and raw materials”, explained Martin Pinto, President of the Center for Industrial Bakers in the Buenos Aires town of Merlo.
Pinto affirmed: “We had to make this determination to continue taking care of our industry, our SMEs and the source of work for bakers.”
“We did everything possible, but it is already unsustainable. The repeated increases in services, raw materials, and fuels led us to make a determination to take care of our small SMEs and jobs,” Pinto explained.
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The main increases that they suffered in recent times correspond to electricity and gas rates, in addition to fuel, according to the representatives of the sector in a press release.
De todas formas, a kilo of bread is already sold at $500 in large areas of the City of Buenos Aires and in some neighborhoods of the Buenos Aires suburbs.
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“We call on the business sectors and government authorities to stop the increases, because price increases mean restrictions and decreases in consumption and that, in the short and medium term, means closure of bakeries and layoffs of personnel, something that we want to avoid,” said the leader of the bakery industry.
According to the statement, the bakery centers that adhere to the measure are those of:
- Quilmes,
- Florencio Varela,
- Dark,
- general rodriguez,
- frames peace,
- Las Heras,
- exaltation of the cross
- campaign and
- Zarate, among others.
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