'Zero capacity to save': Argentines buckle under 103% inflation

FILE PHOTO: A costumer walks past a greengrocery store, as Argentina's annual inflation rate tore past 100% in February, the country's statistics agency said on Tuesday, the first time it has hit triple figures since a period of hyperinflation in 1991, over three decades ago, in Buenos Aires, Argentina March 14, 2023. REUTERS/Agustin Marcarian

BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) - Argentines, painfully accustomed to decades of spiraling prices, say that the current 102.5%-and-climbing inflation rate is on another level and is making it almost impossible to get by.

"In my case, I have zero capacity to save," said Claudia Hernansaez, a publishing company employee.