Friday 6 July 2007
This is a price board outside of an almacen, or small grocery store. You may notice that they've just given up on the painted prices, and go with paper ones taped on. This is because prices change all the time here. And I mean all the time. Even in our year here we've seen incredible inflation, with prices constantly on the rise. The government claims that inflation is low ("well, the price of shoelaces hasn't changed in a very long time") but everyday items just keep going up. Stores all advertise in paper like this, and many have given up, leaving ads with dollar signs empty, not bothering to show the price.
This is a price board outside of an almacen, or small grocery store. You may notice that they've just given up on the painted prices, and go with paper ones taped on. This is because prices change all the time here. And I mean all the time. Even in our year here we've seen incredible inflation, with prices constantly on the rise. The government claims that inflation is low ("well, the price of shoelaces hasn't changed in a very long time") but everyday items just keep going up. Stores all advertise in paper like this, and many have given up, leaving ads with dollar signs empty, not bothering to show the price.
1 comment:
Interestingly enough the governments of North America are known to "lie" to us about the rate of inflation as well. If the price of one of the markers is rising too fast it is usually removed from the calculation(take oil/gasoline for example). The government typically "adjusts" the inflation rate to suite its political needs.
Glenn
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