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The Rise of the Dollar Impacts on Costs and Supermarkets Receive Price Increases
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After the Dollar Skyrocketing, Massive Consumer Companies Apply New Price Increases — Opi Santa Cruz
Food and mass consumer products companies began to notify supermarket chains of new price increases, with increases that in some cases reach 8%. This situation occurs after the sharp escalation of the dollar over the past week, which exceeded the $1,400 barrier and accumulated a rise of 13% in July. The impact of the devaluation of the peso against the US currency has quickly shifted to production costs and, consequently, to the price lists that…
Supermarkets and nearby shops began to receive the price lists of basic consumer products with increases ranging from 5% to 10%. Also, in August, new highlights are expected for the increase in the value of the official dollar. Although some consultants say that the fall in consumption limits a direct transfer to prices, in practice food and basic necessities already began to increase. From now on, industries, distributors and retail chains are …
Buenos Aires, August 2, 2025 – Total News Agency – TNA-The recent jump of the dollar, which closed July with an approximate rise of 14%, triggered a new wave of price increases in mass consumer products, with rises of between 5% and 9% reported by food and hygiene companies. However, supermarket chains, wholesalers and warehouses are reluctant to validate these adjustments, replicating the tension experienced in April after the departure of the …
The recent escalation of the dollar, which closed July with an accumulated increase of 13% and led the official price to rub the $1,400, began to impact on the price lists that suppliers send to supermarkets. Some of the major food, beverage and hygiene companies already applied increases of up to 8%. The new lists, which began to arrive this week, reflect increases that in some cases range from 4% to 8%. Among the companies that adjusted prices…
Companies of mass consumption passed lists with rises between 5% and 9%.
Against the government’s account, 14% of the dollar’s rise in July has a strong impact on prices. Ten giants of mass consumption have already told supermarkets that, from Monday, they will apply increases ranging from 3 to 9% in food, beverages, cleaning products, dairy products and oils. Cars do not want to lose the race and there will be increases of up to 12% in concessionaries.
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