Families prefer to buy from warehouses because they don’t have enough to go to the supermarket.

The search for lower prices forced families diversify your purchasing channels, according to research conducted by Kantar Division. This means they can buy their products from more than one physical or virtual store if the offer is cheap.

According to the study, six out of ten families have up to seven buying channels, such as wineriessupermarkets, wholesale markets, etc. Of these preferences, the former prevail.

By structure family expenses; i.e. how they allocate their consumption across the type of stores chosen, we know that 31.5% of the family shopping basket spending in the second quarter of the year was for warehouses, another 31.5% was in Kantar reported that in markets, 20 .4% in modern channel, 3.6% in pharmacies, 3.2% in delivery, 3.1% in wholesalers and 6.7% in other channels.

Does the preference reflect the economic recovery of wineries?

The answer is no. According to Andrés Choi, president of the Peruvian Association of Winemakers, the preference of families to shop at these types of establishments does not reflect an increase in the profits of these enterprises, but indicates a decrease purchasing power of households.

“Demand has not increased, but supply has increased. Wine cellars are preferred because there are several channels that sell packaged products, such as supermarkets, but they have larger formats of packaged products, and there are people who do not have the purchasing power to buy this type of goods more expensive, on the other hand , in warehouses they can be bought in smaller quantities and cheaper,” the source said. News RPP.

The latest report from the National Statistical and Informatics Institute (INEI) showed an increase Monthly income in Metropolitan Lima up to SGD 1700.3; however, with inflationAccording to Juan Carlos Odar, director of Phase Consultores, the real value of this amount is SGD 1,568.54. At real value (S/1568.54), people buy 2% less with this money than they could consume in 2021.

This is supported by what the spokesman said, because in densely populated areas like San Juan de Lurigancho, a family spent between $12 and $15 a day, now they use the same amount but take less groceries.

What is the current situation with warehouses?

Although profits did not increase, uncontrolled closure of these enterprisesregistered in the first months of this year, has ceased to exist, and currently there are about 535,000 warehouses operating in the country.

The renewal of prices has been the main factor in the closure of these stores, whose owners have chosen to consume their products rather than sell them, others, in order to overcome inflation, have diversified their offer and instead of products, they also offer vegetables, chicken, they have become in bookstores , bazaars and even water bill collection agents.

“Prices started to rise every two weeks and then every week, but it stopped in mid-June or July, but the trend is that prices continue to rise. I didn’t see partners go out of business anymore, but they are diversifying”, accurate.