GUALEGUAYCHÚ, Argentina —
Stella Ferreira waits for the dye to color her hair while her friend sitting a few meters away instructs the stylist to cut her hair. Not far from the hairdresser’s in the Argentinian city of Gualeguaychú where both Uruguayans are regular customers, two colleagues try on one pair of pants after another in a clothing store.
The commercial tour has just started and at a price idea devised by the four friends, who recently arrived from the town of Fray Bentos, located 45 kilometers in the bordering country of Uruguay.
With an estimated cost of 100 dollars per person, the group plans to shop around the caprices in Gualeguaychú, the town located in the Argentine province of Entre Ríos which, for more than a year, has been the Mecca for Uruguayans eager to consume at prices that seem derisory to them.
“We went for change and They gave us 48,000 Argentine pesos, with which we do our hair, buy clothes, naphtha (gasoline), eat and buy something else. There, with that money, you do your hair and nothing else, so it’s good for us,» Ferreira, 29, told The Associated Press last Saturday, July 1, at the hairdresser she visits periodically with her companions.
