We are aware that Argentina is experiencing a time quite complicated, especially related to the economy, whose situation is justifiable because of annual inflation figures that exceed 70%. Including, the absence of imported products, an increase in poverty and also in unemployment are already being registered.
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Even in this situation, on the afternoon of Tuesday, the 20th, some employees of the Ministry of Economy and also of the Secretariat of Interior Commerce had four hours to mediate between the manufacturer of World Cup sticker albums, Panini, and the syndicate of kiosks and newsstands in Argentina.
They have been complaining that the company has given priority only to the distribution of the albums and from stickers to supermarket chains or online shopping platforms, such as Mercado Free.
“This is the result of this strategy”, was what Horácio Shipane, 42 years old, told the report. He owns a kiosk in the Villa Urquiza neighborhood and showed that there is also a very long queue. of teenagers and several adults who were waiting for the arrival of a shipment with the products.
“My stand has always been a reference in sticker sales. The boys always gathered in front to exchange, to play, to complete their albums. It was like that with my father too. It's the kind of tradition that passes from father to son and that now, with these online stores, is destroyed”, he added.
Jonathan, a 14-year-old boy named, showed his picture of the French Kylian Mbappé and listened to the offers: “change for 20”, “change for an almost complete album”, “I pay 3 thousand pesos”.
Sticker crisis lasts a month
This sticker crisis in Argentina started as soon as sales of World Cup albums started on August 24th. “In Russia, we had a lot of demand, now it's too much. I think it's because it will be Messi's last Cup”, said Gonzalo Cortizo, 28, manager of a kiosk on Avenida Corrientes. “I got excited when they arrived, I put up Argentine flags and several T-shirts, decorated the store. But then people started asking for the album straight away, and I didn't have it anymore. That or he didn't have the stickers. It was a disappointment”.
A 43-year-old teacher is also very impatient on the subject. She said that she was promising her son Leonardo to buy the complete album at Free market, as long as they get out of line. "But what's the fun?", asked the son. To the reporting staff, she said: “This is a fantasy that parents put in their children's heads, boys' manias. Today the world is different. Imagine if they ask me to go to the newsstand to buy a magazine or a newspaper. The world changed!".
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