Bread, cigarettes and beer prices will rise from Monday, December 19: ANPEC

On the eve of the Christmas dinner, small merchants announced that bread will have a new price increase, starting next Monday, December 19, as a reflection of the inflationary impact, increase in energy and raw materials. With this, it ceases to collaborate in the government’s anti-inflationary plan.

According to the National Association of Small Merchants (ANPEC) This increase will be the second “hit” that consumers have received in their pockets so far this year.

He explained that the bakery industry will impose new prices on its products due to the multiple pressures that the sector has received in recent months, where its main inputs: wheat, energy and logistics, have become significantly more expensive.

Given this scenario, it is impossible for the baking industry to continue absorbing the costs, so it will be passed on to consumers.

In this way, businessmen dedicated to making bread “conclude their commitment to the PACIC (Package against Inflation and Famine), which they contracted since May, to contain the price of some of their products such as bread big box”.

Although there will be a variation in costs, depending on the type of bread, the first increase presented by the sector was around 1 peso.

The price of wheat has skyrocketed as a result of the war in the east, as has the cost of gas and electricity in our country, which is increasingly expensive and insufficient. In addition, there is a shortage of cardboard, plastic and aluminum, which makes the logistics of packaging these products more expensive,” said ANPEC.

The businessmen commented that the consumption of bolillo and telera, before that of box bread, has increased at the beginning of the year, going from a national average of 1.70 pesos to 2.50 pesos. “The increase is practically 1 peso per bolillo/telera, a food so demanded by Mexicans,” the Association noted.

The increase in food comes a few days before the minimum wage increases 20% from 2023.

The ANPEC reported that grocery stores will also face increases in packs of cigarettesas of December 19, at an average of 5 pesos per pack of 20 cigarettes.

According to the beerwe can confirm that the maximum average increase was up to 8%, which is equivalent to 1 peso per unit in its most popular presentations, with the greatest demand.

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