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21/01/2015
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Not only are the high temperatures that have broken records in the summer of Rio. The prices of mineral water as well. The fact that a bottle of 500 milliliters cost up to R$ 4 in kiosks of the main points of the Rio summer - and a gas reach R$ 5 - has scared tourists. Photographer Alison Fernandes and the accountant Tábata Figueiredo, both 27, residents of Brasilia, have managed to escape the high prices charged in Ipanema, in Rio's South Zone.
- Charging R$ 4 for a bottle is a steal. We took a large bottle (a liter and a half) and the water filled in the hostel where we are staying - Alison said.
The Paraguayan Felix Gogalo, 56, opted tobuy threebottles of mineralwater in asupermarket andtake them totheBarra da TijucaBeach,in the West Zone.
- The prices here are very expensive for us. We paid almost R$ 4 in the big bottle (also a liter and a half). That price, yes, it is similar to what we have in Paraguay - reported the official.
Managers of Claudinho the kiosks, in Barra da Tijuca, and Health Point in Ipanema, where the reporting team found higher prices, argued that they had to increase the table due to the high costs of marketed products, including the sold water by suppliers.
For those who have a cooler or freezer bag to keep chilled bottles, it just pass by the supermarket to save before going to the beach. Guanabara in Barra da Tijuca, for example, the prices of mineral water bottles (500ml) vary between R$ 1.20 and R$ 1.44, no gas, and R$ 1.59 to R$ 1.49 with gas. For both types, the economy in relation to the amounts charged on the beach is 70%. In Ipanema, supermarket South Zone, the natural costs of R$ 1.39 to R$ 1.59, and the gas, R$ 1.69. It pays up to 65.2% and 57.75% less than in Rio's beachfront, respectively.
At half the value
Who attends the points of the North Zone is more affordable rates. On Palm Piscinão, you can find a bottle of water (500ml) to R$ 2, half of R$ 4 charged in Ipanema and Barra. In Madureira Park, kiosks sell the version with or without gas for up to R$ 3. Still, the student Karine Korff, 17, takes home water:
- I spend the whole day here, riding a penny (a kind of skateboard, minor). I have to bring home two bottles. An ice water and other frozen. If the kiosks selling at R$ 2 already have profit. That would be a fair price.
Economist André Braz, the Getulio Vargas Foundation (FGV), explains that, on the beach, the consumer buys services.
- In services targets various costs: water price, freight, ice and pay the seller. A bottle that costs little more than a real market worth five times more in the sand.
Source: Extra
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