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Market day
You run an arepa stand in Cabudare. You set the price. What happens when someone sets it for you?
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This really happened
In Venezuela, the government set very low prices for bread.
In 2017, bakers said they sold bread at a loss and that there wasn't enough flour. Outside bakeries, lines lasted for hours.
The country was also buying less wheat abroad because it was short of dollars.
Some bakers kept flour aside to make sweets with no fixed price. That way they could stay open.
Source
- NPR (John Otis) / KVPR, Venezuela's Bread Wars: With Food Scarce, Government Accuses Bakers Of Hoarding, April 7, 2017.