From cartons with 30 eggs in a price range of RD$160 to RD$180; chicken with a value of RD$68 to RD$80 and others whose value may vary, including the sector where they are found and how vendors buy them for future marketing.
That is the scenario that exists in the markets of the Dominican capital.
Poultry product merchants defend the price of their merchandise by saying that they sell it to the public depending on what they paid to buy the product, especially eggs and chickens, and that they carry up to 20 pesos difference at various points of sale.
“You will never find the same chicken everywhere, because we do not get our supplies from the same people, since he buys a nice, peeled chicken, it is not the same as the one who buys a live one to kill it or if he receives it killed, without feathers and wrapped in plastic”, expressed Arcadio Bueno.
When visiting the “El Mejor Pollo” pollera, located in the María Auxiliadora sector, its owner said that yesterday he hoped that his article would arrive at a lower price.
“Tomorrow (yesterday) it could be that it drops two or three pesos, I have it at RD$67 and I’m going to take it to RD$65 for my people,” declared Simón Medina.
One of Medina’s most assiduous and loyal customers, named Rey Canario, understands that the local economic situation is “complicated”, but that he must eat every day and therefore buy food as well.
“Before, everything was cheaper, things have gotten complicated and look, thank God, I can buy food for my family without problems, but the street is hard, but you have to buy whatever you can,” argued Rey Canario. Something that the poultry merchants highlighted is that until now they do not see their product as “difficult” to acquire.
In other commercial establishments visited, such as the Los Guandules market, the cost of chicken ranges from RD$70 to RD$85 per pound.
In the case of other meats such as beef and pork, the merchants specify that in previous years these had little change in their monetary value, but that in the last year they have shown an increase, which they describe as “worrying” .
Markets.
Currently, the price of beef is RD$175 per pound; in the form of steak it costs RD$200; rib and fillet cost RD$160, while pork costs RD$170 a pound and chop cuts RD$150 a pound.
Lament.
“That’s an abuse! Beef lasted an average of almost four years and the price did not rise,” Christopher Martínez, in the 27 de Febrero sector.
