With sales that fell up to 80%, corralones de Santa Fe apply discounts to activate demand

The reality of corralones of Santa Fe is that of few customers buying in businesses, an image that is repeated in Santa Fe and the region. Without restrictions to obtain inputs, stocking is hampered by the constant increases in price lists, which combined with the few sales It is extremely detrimental to the sector.

From the corralones consulted by this means they stated that “the materials They are not falling in price, although there is a slowdown in the rise that we have been experiencing, increasing with less force. What happens now is that the few sales there are mean that we have to lower prices simply to be able to continue.”

“There are no sales and we have to find it in some way. The prices of inputs have not dropped at the factory and the corralones are very exposed to the lack of sales,” they continued. Furthermore, the paralysis of the public work product of lack of financing.

Delving into the complex situation, merchants in the sector postulated: “Depending on the product in question, we are making discounts of an average of 10%, which we absorb given that from the factory we continue to receive price lists with increases of 6 to 8%, for now”.

“Since December our sales have fallen between 70 and 80%, we hope that there will be a reduction in the price of materials from the factory in the coming months because otherwise if we do not provide discounts we cannot continue,” they stated.

Sand, iron and cement are the products on which discounts are being applied the most. “Some corralones give the entire discount to cement but on the other hand they increase the price of brick, this applies to each business,” they told this medium.

Increase of materials

In the “Materials” section, the inputs with the greatest increases were: Plaster, 11.5%; Cements, 9.2%; Wood, 9.0%; Waterproofing, 9.0%; Fine and coarse aggregates, 8.8%; Granites, 8.5%; Furnishings, 8.3%; Floors and coverings, 8.2%; Various basics 5.7%; Paintings, 5.5%.

As a reference, 1,000 common bricks have a cost of $101,109, while the bag of masonry cement rose to 7,561 pesos, Portland cement rose to 8,978 pesos per bag and $15,564 for 10 mm (× 12 m) ribbed steel.

Public works paralyzed

After President Javier Milei has stressed that “infrastructure works will be financed by the private sector”, the province is satisfied that the national government can, at least, “maintain” what already exists in terms of infrastructure vial.

“We must differentiate something very important between new public works, which there is a need -obviously-, and the maintenance of existing public works, which is a real capital that the Argentine Republic has; that the Province of Santa Fe has. “warned the head of Provincial Roads, Pablo Seghezzo.

“Public works is a capital that must be maintained, so that it does not go bankrupt. Leaving it abandoned, 20 years, 30 years, it will collapse on its own,” he graphed. It should be noted that in the construction area, there are 1,076 workers affected in Santa Fe and the region.

In that vein, the provincial official repeated: “What one has to do is maintain. Because if it breaks, then it becomes more and more expensive to repair it. So, it is a good investment. Maintenance is a very good investment.”