Bread
, the key food for the table,
will increase its price again
in
the Province of Buenos Aires starting this Friday.
The increase this time will be
20 percent,
due to the
high costs of inputs and raw materials
that producers have had in recent weeks, given inflation.
Some of the bakery centers that will increase the prices of their products starting this Friday will be those of
Merlo, Ituzaingó, Marcos Paz, Las Heras, Moreno, General Rodríguez, San Miguel, José C. Paz, Malvinas Argentinas, Quilmes, Florencio Varela, Tigre, San Fernando and San Pedro
, among others.
"In principle we decided to increase all our products by 20 percent starting this Friday, so
the suggested price per kilo of bread will be 1,800 pesos in neighborhood bakeries
, but we do not rule out that in the coming weeks we will have to increase our prices again. prices,"
Martín Pinto, president of the Merlo Industrial Bakers Center,
explained to
Clarín .
In this way, this 20%
will not be the last increase
, due to the strong increases in inputs and spare parts for baking machines.
In addition, the sector expects new rates for
electricity and gas services
, so in the following weeks they could adjust the value of their products again.
Bread increases by 20% in the Province of Buenos Aires.
With this increase , the dozen bills
will be worth between
3,800 to 4,200 pesos and each crumb sandwich
will cost around
1,100 pesos.
"We are melting down working," they say in the bakers' chamber
"Every week we have increases of 5, 2, 3 percent constantly, and this seems to have no end.
We are melting down working
and it is getting worse," said Pinto, who also regretted that in the last time the drop in turnover in the bakeries dropped considerably.
And he added: "Unfortunately we have no other alternative, given the repeated increases that we have been suffering daily in inputs and raw materials."
Regarding his business, the Merlo Bakers leader commented that he had to stop delegating tasks and start making sandwiches
and distributing bread
himself
.
"People come with the same money as before, but now they buy less and less. The clients are the same, but our billing has dropped a lot, around 20 percent in the last month," Pinto stressed.
Consequently, the suggested price of a kilo of bread starting this Friday in
bakeries in the Buenos Aires suburbs
will reach 1,800 pesos,
increasing 300 pesos on average
compared to the last adjustment in December.
"Since October we have seen an increase in all products and in December it was accentuated. In December we increased 15 percent and ended up behind annual inflation. Flour, which is our main raw material, had a 180% increase in 2023 and we 140%," described the merchant.
Regarding how he sees the future of the sector, the Bakers' leader warned that
"what is coming will be increasingly worse
" due to the increases that are predicted in services with the elimination of subsidies.
D.S.