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‘Like James Bond,’ Argentine price spies fight inflation

by Eduardo DE MIGUEL Agence France Presse Buenos Aires, Argentina (AFP) — Like a veritable undercover agent, Monica Schenone tries to pass unnoticed through the aisles of a supermarket in Buenos Aires, sneaking photographs of price tags. The 52-year-old homemaker is part of a group of ordinary Argentines who volunteer their time to police stores’ adherence to price limits suggested by the government to curtail spiraling inflation. She feels “like James Bond,” Schenone says, as […]