In January, sales in supermarkets would have fallen 9%. Small businesses experienced a decrease of 28.5% in compared to the same period of the previous year.
In the Construction sector, also the sale of materials, which had been growing in September and October due to fear of the coming devaluation, deepened its fall in January, after having also fallen in December. According to data from the Argentine Dealers Association (Acara), in January patents were 49.3% lower than in the same month last year.