The article explores some information that had been built on an ethnography of a wholesale shop in the neighborhood of Constitución, where it seeks to both focus and to discuss the relationship between different values - material, moral, ethical and aesthetic - adjacent to the movement of goods and people. Taking as reference the economic anthropology literature, the narrative aims to show how the business operations undertaken, many times in contexts of conflict, promoting the circulation of social values, in which on a daily basis are updated and recorded in a process where the monetary values, the quantities of the coins, the presence or the absence of credit, among others, tell much more than simple exchanges of sale.
informality; moralities; values; work