Production facilities need money to buy raw material to make inventory...
500 % inflation this year only...
I guess in socialist paradise like Venezuela those things don't matter...
Reminds me of the Soviet saying: "We pretend to work and they pretend to pay us."
My thoughts exactly; maybe they can make invisible clothes for Emperor Maduro. Any country accepting Venezuelan paper (currency or bonds) is foolish; they may be able to trade them for Confederate banknotes or become Zimbabwean trillionaires...
Maduro stopped currency exchanges. Business had no access to dollars, therefore no way to purchase necessities.