BASKET PRODUCTS SHOULD RISE ABOVE the IPCA in 2018

The year 2017 closed with a sharp decline in the principal products which make up the basket Abrasmercado, measured by GfK for the Brazilian Association of Supermarkets. According to the study, released today (19), in a press conference, in the 52nd Convention OPEN, last year, the average annual decline suffered by the 35 categories was de-7.1%. However, some products, such as beans, for example, fell 39.2 percent, the biggest decline, followed by rice,-20.2%, and sugar-17.0%. This caused the price of the dish made from the Brazilian, the famous PF, consisting of rice, beans, potatoes, tomatoes and beef (beef or chicken), have had a fall of 14.3% in 2017. For Marco Aurélio Lima, Director of GfK and coordinator of the analysis, the main justification for this negative performance was strong deflation in some products. "In some cases, back to prices in 2015. The record harvest of 2016/17 generated a wide range of products on the market. This will cause there to be a recovery trend slightly above inflation over 2018, in those products with larger losses, "says Lima. Yet in the opinion of the Executive, this effect must happen in all macro-regions of the country. "There are products with high possibility to rise well above inflation to recover the margins that were compromised. In the case of milk and its derivatives, for example. Others, like the bean, which fell very expressive, must also have a larger increase, "he predicts. According to the study, the average price of the PF in the country fell 8.5% in 2017 and 2018 opened in R $7.58. The northern region recorded the highest price of Brazil, R $9.72; and it had the lowest value was the Southeast with R $6.64. "The dish made of Brazilian should rise slightly above inflation, very pulled by a recovery in the prices of meat, you also recorded sharp falls in 2017", says the Executive. In addition, we highlight the price of PF in the great Homemade RJ, which was R $5.97 in January, well below the national average.