RodalfoWalsh
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Yesterday at Carrefour and I saw something absolutely shocking (actually two things if you count the McPussy sponges).
I was wandering around looking for something else when I noticed grey poupon mustard on the bottom shelf next to the floor and did a double take. The price was unbelievable. $37 pesos.
Unbelievable because grey poupon mustard is something I use 3-4x a week in salad dressings and as such it was one of the first products whose price I paid attention to since I first came to live in argentina in 2009. I stopped paying attention after I got fed up with its intermittent appearances at the grocery stores and just brought giant jars from the US each year. Still, I clearly remember the price at COTO in 2009: $24. For reference that was when a kilo of lomo cost $70, a liter of quilmes $3.80 and taxis fares started at less than $4 pesos at more or less about the value of 1 dollar.
I remember commenting on this site a few years later how (c. 2011-2012) how I couldn't believe that the price had only budged a few pesos (to ~27) despite the double digit inflation. I attributed this to the fixed exchange rate at the time.
$37 (and that's list price, no promotion or discount) from $24 thats a 54% increase. To compare to those other prices I tossed out, lomo at the grocery store was up about 242% Quilmes is up about 560%, and taxis are up about 570%. Not to mention the dollar is up 260%.
Anyway, I'm not complaining just perplexed. Also if anyone wants to take advantage of the price, don't go to the big carrefour in colegiales; I bought all of them.
I was wandering around looking for something else when I noticed grey poupon mustard on the bottom shelf next to the floor and did a double take. The price was unbelievable. $37 pesos.
Unbelievable because grey poupon mustard is something I use 3-4x a week in salad dressings and as such it was one of the first products whose price I paid attention to since I first came to live in argentina in 2009. I stopped paying attention after I got fed up with its intermittent appearances at the grocery stores and just brought giant jars from the US each year. Still, I clearly remember the price at COTO in 2009: $24. For reference that was when a kilo of lomo cost $70, a liter of quilmes $3.80 and taxis fares started at less than $4 pesos at more or less about the value of 1 dollar.
I remember commenting on this site a few years later how (c. 2011-2012) how I couldn't believe that the price had only budged a few pesos (to ~27) despite the double digit inflation. I attributed this to the fixed exchange rate at the time.
$37 (and that's list price, no promotion or discount) from $24 thats a 54% increase. To compare to those other prices I tossed out, lomo at the grocery store was up about 242% Quilmes is up about 560%, and taxis are up about 570%. Not to mention the dollar is up 260%.
Anyway, I'm not complaining just perplexed. Also if anyone wants to take advantage of the price, don't go to the big carrefour in colegiales; I bought all of them.
