Rocio Magnani
12/19/2020 7:33 PM
Clarín.com
Society
Updated 12/19/2020 7:33 PM
"Did anyone see the slaughter?",
"The butcher says that the roast comes out in ten minutes, they are cutting it", "Claudia, do I have one or two trays?"
Around noon, about 15 people wait their turn to go through the meat gondola in a hypermarket in Avellaneda, one of the 1,600 points where
cheap barbecue cuts
are obtained from this Saturday
to spend the holidays.
There are three:
roast at $ 349, empty at $ 459 and matambre at $ 479.
Luis, who says he has a "clinical eye" for roasting, explains that you have to search well.
His maxim: not to settle for the first piece wrapped in film.
"That one, you see, that one does not have so much fat," he
comments to
Clarín
and explains that "they are not the best cuts, but the price is good", his version that in relation to price-quality the test is passed.
"I didn't really know about this offer," says Silvia, as she turns a car loaded with the cuts of meat.
No one in sight seems interested in accommodating them in the cold gondolas.
"The butcher says that in ten minutes the roast comes back, they are cutting it," said an employee.
Photo: Constanza Niscovolos
Behind the curtain of plastic stripes, you can hear the “zzzzzz” of the bandsaw with which the cattle are divided.
The area with the red trays is the only one in the Coto supermarket guarded by a guard
, who is in charge of managing the number of people to avoid coronavirus infections.
To accelerate, those who go two separate.
One goes to see the fine print of each price and consults the one behind the retractable tape out loud.
They will be offered for three days roast at $ 349, empty at $ 459 and matambre at $ 479.
Photo: Constanza Niscovolos
The meat on sale will be available until Monday, December 21, in 1,600 outlets, according to the Ministry of Internal Trade.
They assure that there are 497 points in the City of Buenos Aires and 437 in the Province.
These are three agreements,
sources from the Ministry of Productive Development of the Nation
detailed to
Clarín
: The first is with the ABC refrigerator consortium, which supplies some of its own butcher shops, such as Friar, and more than 1,400 supermarkets, such as Jumbo, Disco, See, Carrefour, Carrefour Maxi and Carrefour Market, Walmart, Changomás, Makro, La Anónima, Libertad and Día. In all those places, you can get the cuts.
The Government reported that there are 1,600 points of sale of the barbecue cuts at promotional prices.
Photo: Constanza Niscovolos
Also, they should be in the gondolas of the 200 branches of
Coto, a
chain with which the Government made a second agreement, since it is supplied from its own refrigerator, reported from Desarrollo Productivo to this newspaper.
Finally, the Ministry of Internal Trade added a third agreement with
14 butcher shops in the Central Market
.
Máximo (42), a
resident of the Buenos Aires neighborhood of Barracas, found out about “cheap meat” on television and went out to visit butcher shops.
"It seemed like a good idea to me for the holidays, because lately in my family we spend more and more on meat,
but for now I could not find the cuts anywhere
,
" he says
next to a local on Montes de Oca avenue at 1200 In the area you can get a kilo of barbecue for around $ 690, almost double the popular price of the agreement.
"Enough came to ask, but we do not know anything," says a butcher from San Telmo to this newspaper.
In Vea, around Saturday noon, there were beginning to be shortages.
Photo: Constanza Niscovolos
In Avellaneda, the JM butcher shop on the corner of Avenida Belgrano and España, near the descent of Puente Pueyrredon, one of the largest and most popular in the party, does not have the cheap cuts of the Government.
Of course, it does not lack its own offers: the barbecue is 500 pesos per kilo.
"They have
n't put that meat anywhere yet
, they're going to wait until the last minute, I think, until Monday," says a customer loaded with two bags.
The Vea de Barracas supermarket had already run out of matambre and almost empty around 13:00. "They brought us everything but people already took it, they all came early," they explained.
Some little computer-printed posters apologized, from the refrigerators: “Offer, roast, empty and slaughter, until stock runs out!” Clarín passed by Vea de Lanús, where there was only one tray, which nobody wanted, in the gondola.
Many people went to look for cuts in local butchers.
Photo: Constanza Niscovolos
-The butcher isn't there?
Javier asks an employee of that supermarket.
-No, the butcher doesn't come until 16, so nothing is replenished.
-But three hours to go ...
Unlike the other supermarkets, the Carrefour de Independencia between Defensa and Bolívar, this Saturday had a good stock of cuts at cheap prices, but no signs that caught the attention of customers.
There were also no signs like with Precious Care.
"I'm going to try to take a lot with me and then I fry it," Martín plans with several trays in hand.
He says that he does not usually eat barbecue at Christmas, but he does in the week: "Before the pandemic, we ate a lot more, now we can't."
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