What Goes up and What Goes Down? Gustavo Cárdenas Travels the Market of Las Fuentes

The remodeled market of Las Fuentes shows contrasts in prices: some products from the basic basket became expensive, while others maintain affordable costs.

SANTO DOMINGO, RD- Despite the constant complaints of housewives about the high cost of the products of the family basic basket, representatives of the trade sector say that some products have already begun to register a decrease in price due to the downward trend that the dollar maintains. The decrease in the price of the dollar has already begun to be reflected in the cost of products of the basic basket, at least as assured by members of the …

The shopping basket has dropped by 0.56% in May, a decrease that is felt more in fish, drinks, drug and hygiene products and pantry products, according to the data of the OCU's Price Observatory.This reduction is kept in line with the one recorded last April, in which a decrease of 0.31% was recorded in the shopping basket.The OCU's Price Observatory analyzes the prices of 101 basic products of the shopping basket in eight supermarket chains (Al…