 SAN DIEGO, April 9, 2021 PRNewswire -- PriceSmart, Inc. NASDAQ: PSMT today announced that despite the COVID-driven surge in buying in March 2020, our net merchandise sales increased 0.5 to 307.6 million from 306.1 million in March a year earlier. Foreign currency exchange fluctuations impacted net merchandise sales negatively by 1.5, or 4.4 million, versus the same one-month period in the prior year. 