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Dominican coins. External source.
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While the Central Bank (BCRD), specifically the Issuance and Custody Department assures that there are “often” enough, since “to date we have in circulation 1,177,073,984 units of coins of different denominations, amounting to RD$7,569,564,540. difficult and there is a shortage in the market.
The president of Amaprosado, Andrés Cosma; the president of the Association of Suppliers of Santo Domingo, Linny Ramírez; The president of Young Entrepreneurs in provisions (Joempro), Ramón A. Álvarez del Rosario, who separately agree that they cannot find what to return.
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In this regard, the BCRD affirms that upon satisfaction of the needs, “the Central Bank dispatches to the financial intermediary entities the amount of coins required by them.”
It is common in grocery stores, supermarkets, cafeterias and other businesses not to return coins to customers who pay for purchases or services or to pay them the amount in kind, usually mints.
However, representatives of commercial sectors assure that there is a shortage and when they go to certain banks they are told that they either have enough and they do not have answers from the Central Bank.
Andrés Cosma says that there are two factors that affect the shortage of coins and that is that periodically the BCRD puts new coins into circulation and that has not been seen for about a year and the ones that are circulating are old coins and people keep them and throw them away and they don’t circulate.
“I think that in the coming months the Central Bank is going to put circulate coins in sufficient quantities to end the shortage that we are experiencing in the Dominican market”, said the president of Amaprosado.
Linny Ramírez, president of the Association of Suppliers of Santo Domingo, pointed out that that there is a shortage of coins, and they do not know the reason and the sector is feeling the discomfort of clients when they have to give them “lies and things like that” and they get quite uncomfortable, since “there are few, the 25, the five, the 10 and the one peso and the banks tell us that there is a shortage and we don’t know what its origin is”.< /p>
The president of Joempro, Álvarez, affirms that the supply and warehouse business is feeling the shortage of coins, “specifically ten and five. There are many of 25 and many pesos”.
He explained that the clients brought them a lot of coins, but they are not coming in tens and fives and “we go to the banks and the banks don’t have any”, and that is why they are turning to the greengrocers and vendors in wheelbarrows, yaniquequeros and others, because in banking there are often no five or ten, “that is the reality”.
Proposal
Faced with consumer complaints , that they return “mints” The executive director of the Office of Consumer Protection (ProConsumidor), Eddy Alcántara, said as a scoop that next Wednesday the 8th he will submit a chewing gum. A proposal from which a resolution arises to the Council of that entity, so that the return of often is optional, because the trade is open. in the obligation to return money.