E-commerce prices go up 2.85% in January

Sao Paulo-the Fipe index/Rocket, which indicates the average e-commerce prices, surged to 2.85% in January compared with December.
Is the fourth month followed in that the sector presents price increase on monthly variation and the seventh time in variation based on the last 12 months. In comparison with January last year, there were high of 9.01%.
Price increases in recent months reflect, according to Fipe, the devaluation of the Brazilian real and the general price rise in the country.
The categories that have more weight in electronic commerce are directly influenced by Exchange: Electronics, computers, photography and telephony.
Of the ten groups that make up the index, nine showed price advance in January compared with December: telephony (3.87%), computers (3.19%), electronics (3.48%), sports and leisure (1.74%), household appliances (2.53%), toys and Games (3.31%), home and decoration (1.37%), photography (1.28%) and cosmetics and Perfumery (0.05%).
The only group to register was the fall sets and accessories ( -1.55%).
The price index of Fipe/Buscapé analyzes a basket of products different from those evaluated by general price indices and focuses on items that are marketed in a more expressive by means of the internet.