The situation, peeped in the shop of one of Belarusian retailers, at least, gives cause for reflection.
A weekday evening at the stores of the network you can see the picturesque scene. Moms with strollers, young couples, pensioners and even respectable men with handbags, taking on the entrance of the basket, across the room heading to the bakery Department. With a greedy kind of people looking for one very important family table product.
Namely, the baguette. Normal nenalezeny standard size white bread, which here is the new 69 cents. Its trading network is doing “on their own” in PRIVATE bakery, hence the attractive price.
Most often, the “best” bread is not the case, as it is early in the morning dismantled the quirky citizens. In this case, the Belarusians have to look for an alternative — it seemed that it may be easier, the other a standard loaf for a reasonable amount? But here’s the thing — it is not!
To solve this tasty mystery, has decided to go in a few shops of different retailers.
— All the bread that is, we have on the shelves — look. Here, there are over 11 thousand, there are over 12 thousand rubles. There are even more expensive, and cheaper is all that have helped to understand the prices of the girl-employee of the state trading network “Rodny Kut”.
In the shops located in the city centre of Minsk, observed the same pattern.
— The cheapest loaf — 11 thousand cheaper we do not exist. Why is it so expensive? Well, it’s not for us to question, and to the manufacturers — we do standard margin of bread at 10%, — commented the man-Manager “Rublevsky” on the Nemiga.
In the shops of “Neighbors” white bread, which was cheaper than 1 new ruble, also can be found.
In General, it was found that in the Minsk shops the price of bread is quite a European level. For comparison: in Poland, specifically in Warsaw — you can buy a loaf for 2 zlotys, equivalent to 99 new Belarusian cents. Despite the fact that the difference of Belarusian and Polish wages today, however.
It turns out that the bread which the private store is on assignment at one of the bakeries (by the way, the state) is almost 40% cheaper than the same bread that is baked in the bakeries of Minsk other than “own order”.
The question arises, how is this possible? Or, perhaps, a state that sits “on the distribution of” bread, specifically does not allow private owners of artificially inflating prices to cash in on the people?
Hard to drive away the thought that this could happen in our socially-oriented state…
By the way, call the state enterprise “Minskhlebprom”, which brings together the largest bakeries in Minsk, failed. During working hours listed on the site phone the phone, no one picked up. Moreover, the last of the rooms, as it turned out, no longer exists.
— Contact the help Desk — the metal voice suggested that the girl-answering machine.
Reference: 1 BYN = 33 RUR RUR 1 = BYR 312
