:quality(85)//cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/infobae/5NG6EJYV2ND6BJG7TV4RCV5EDY.jpg "Fair prices: the government applied 779 fines for more than 800 million dollars for lack of products in one week 1")
Under the new fair pricing program, the Secretary of Commerce has fined supermarkets and FMCG companies over $800 million for various irregularities detected under the agreement.
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This was detailed by the Commerce Secretary Matias Tomobolini. “This week, we reached 779 fines for $806,450,000 on supermarkets, Dia, Carrefour and Cencosud, and different food companies. The procedure is the same, the report is drawn up, the person in charge of the report is released and the fine is imposed, ”explained the manager in dialogue with Radio 10.
The fines – according to Tombolini – include violations such as lack of stock, signage, inclusion of products that are not part of the program, duplication of labeling. “It’s a step further in this idea that we cannot put order in prices if we allow abuses, we work on complaints from inspectors and neighbors and we deploy blitz operations”, a said the Secretary of Commerce.
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“When what is verified is that the shortage is the responsibility of the producer and not the supermarket, the food companies are fined. The fined companies are part of these $806 million fines. In the discharge, the companies have the opportunity to report,” added Tombolini.
The manager confirmed that over the weekend there was an operation in a Jumbo supermarket in the city of San Martín, where in addition to breaches of the fair price program, a breach was detected in the ordinance 9007 – firefighter control – which generated the closure from the premises
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The inspection operation was carried out by the Secretary of Commerce, together with the Undersecretary for Consumer Defense of the Municipality of San Martín, at the Jumbo Hypermarket located in Calle San Lorenzo 3773 with the aim of controlling compliance with the fair price program.
“The operation, articulated by the two departments, was launched after receiving repeated reports of non-compliance in the said branch, denounced via the Fair Prices mobile application, which triggered an alert which led to the first informal findings. and the organization of the mentioned inspections”, indicated by the Secretary of Commerce.
During the audits, various irregularities related to compliance with the fair price program were substantiated. Infractions related to lack of merchandise and stock were recorded, mainly in the areas of perfumery, personal care, cleaning, oils, tuna, flour, grass and noodles; as well as the absence of signaling of the products forming part of the said program. Following the high level of non-compliance of large retailers on 32 products without stock, to which are added some 14 with stock shortages of more than 80%, the auditors proceeded to draw up the corresponding reports.
Asked about the shortages of sunflower and blend oils, Tombolini clarified that in this new phase of the price program, oils are among the products that have a price trajectory – with a monthly increase of 3.2% – but are no longer included in the fixed price. list.
“They are under a trust and not part of the usual negotiation which has its own funding from the same suppliers. This had been regularized in January and we did not detect the lack in February. We have prices in line with 3.1% for sunflower and 2.7% for blended oil in the price path,” he reported.
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