Bread price today in Peru can cost up to S / 0.60 per unit

(Agraria.pe) The Peruvian Association of Bakery and Pastry Entrepreneurs (ASPAN) said Thursday that the price of bread in the country can range between S / 0.25 and / 0.60 per unit in supermarkets and large bakeries. “The high competition among bakers, that we are 20,000 bakeries for a market of 12,000 people, makes a difference in the price of bread. You can find from S/ 0.25 to S/ 0.60, it will depend a lot on the weight, the quality and the environment where it has been prepared,” said Pío Pantoja, president of ASPAN. He explained that the price of bread increases because it is proportional to the quality of the product and its size. Pantoja also mentioned that bread is the product of the basic basket that has risen the least, despite inflation. “In a year and a half, bread has only risen 20%, while all other products have risen 100%. The potato, for example, used to cost S/ 2.50 a kilo and now S/ 7.50″, he said. The president of Aspan stated that the VAT exemption law for ...