I was in Bahia Blanca this afternoon. I don't usually go two weeks in a row, but I wanted to see if Walmart was offering any 42" flat screen TVs at unadvertised "closeout" prices before buying one on line. Last week they had a fair inventory of 42" RCA LED TVs at a 15% discount next to a "mountain" of 32" models at 25% discounts. RCA isn't a brand I would buy but others apparently did. All of the 42" models were gone and the discount on the 32" models had been increased to 30%. There was nothing that compared favorably with the 40" Samsung offered by Fravega on line.
I bought a few items I was running low on and went to the large hardware store at the other end of the shopping center to check the prices of fire extinguishers. On Friday I dropped off the one I keep in the trunk of my car to be recharged at a shop in Punta Alta. I asked about the replacement cost of the fire extinguisher and was told $270 pesos. While I was there I bought a 4 kilo LP gas tank (aka garrafa) to use with a gas lamp (during power outages) for $470 pesos.
The price for the same (1 kilo) fire extinguisher at the hardware store was $220 pesos, but the price for a 4 kilo garrafa was almost $600 pesos.
As the saying goes, "It pays" to shop" but bigger doesn't always mean cheaper, and neither does smaller.
