Damien Kantor
07/26/2021 2:59 PM
Clarín.com
Economy
Updated 07/26/2021 2:59 PM
The products of
the emblematic Macy's store
are at the fingertips of Argentines. Strictly speaking, the chain will offer part of its catalog in the country,
around 25,000 garments for men and more than 37,000 items for women
, through the Uruguayan portal TiendaMia, a marketplace that includes a door-to-door sales service. "To the millions of products that we offered from companies like
Amazon, eBay and Walmart
in the United States, we now add Macy's," says Roger Dimant, local Country Manager for TiendaMia.
The senior executive explained that purchases at Macy's and the rest of the chains integrated into the portal "
may be paid with various forms of payment and financing in pesos to facilitate operations
," the company said in the launch statement. TiendaMia operates as any eCommerce marketplace This is a site that hosts commercial chains from abroad, which offer their products in different countries of the region, including Brazil, Peru and Ecuador.
The operation to enter products into Argentina revolves around a simplified regime, that is, a courier or private mail, which is in charge of doing all the processing in Customs, the payment of tariff taxes, assignment and distribution of packages. enter, choose the articles and the system itself calculates the final price and the approximate delivery time. Payments can be made in pesos with a credit card, in fixed installments and there is also the possibility of paying directly in dollars or with international cards through Paypal.
The method of buying online from Argentina in stores in the United States, such as Macy's, is not new.
At the end of last year, German logistics giant DHL launched DHL eShop, a mobile app that lets you shop at more than 110 retail chains, including Amazon, Apple, Gap and Barnes & Nobles.
It is a virtual shopping center, which includes a door-to-door delivery system, with an average delivery delay of 11 days.
Alejandro Jasiukiewicz, Country Manager of the local DHL subsidiary, explained to Clarín that the marketplace has been adding new stores, such as Adidas and that due to the regulations in force in Argentina, "a user can make up to 5 shipments per year, with a ceiling of US $ 2,500 and up to 50 kilos in each purchase ".
The mechanism to make purchases requires the download of the application (DHL LATAM eShop) in the Play Store (Android) or in the Apple Store (iOs). Then you have to complete the registration process. From there you can access the virtual shopping center, where all the businesses that are attached to the system appear. The list includes multi-item stores (Amazon, Macy's and Nordstrom), electronics (Apple), books (Barnes & Noble) and numerous clothing and footwear brands, such as Gap, Armani Exchanges, Old Navy, and Banana Republic.
From TiendaMia they clarified that "
it is not necessary to do any paperwork in Customs to receive the order
." That is, there is no need to make any declarations before AFIP or Customs and the products arrive directly at the door of the buyer's house. The website allows you to buy with shipments both by private courier and by Correo Argentino. They also explained that delivery times depend on each service: "in the case of the Post it can exceed 30 days and in the case of private courier it goes from 15 to 20 days, on average," they pointed out.