“When the increases are so violent, they are transferred little by little to the consumer because both the slaughterer and the industrialist know that the butcher cannot increase 40% of the product overnight, because it is a slap to the consumer,” he said. Miguel Schiaritipresident of the Chamber of Industry and Commerce of Meats, to Always together of Chain 3 Rosary.
According to the sector benchmark, the methodology is then, “increase in several days by moving the price slowly so that the blow is not sudden in people’s pockets.”
Schiaritti recalls that in 2022 meat increased by 44%, against 94% inflation, for which he affirms that “it is not a price increase but a recomposition of values” and recalls that “10% is still missing, the equation continues being negative for the sector”.
Bovine meat is a priority for Argentines in the year 20222, with a kilo of beef 3kg of chicken and 2kg of pork were bought.
For the head of the Chamber of Industry and Commerce of Meat “consumption and demand will fall and prices will remain.”
