People have begun to mobilize on social networks, to peacefully protesting Călin Georgescu’s exhortation to boycott the supermarkets in the country on February 10.
Călin Georgescu’s boycott struck negative reactions on social media social networks
Calin Georgescu launched these days to his supporters the initiative to boycott supermarkets Monday, February 10th. This initiative said that George Simion, president of Gold, also joined.
His urge was not unanswered. On social networks, especially on Facebook, people have transmitted that although they shop over the weekend, they will change their routine in protest.
“Monday, February 10, 2025, I have to shop. And I will take Made in Romania, and made in the EU, as in the EU there are now enough Romanian products on the shelf, in houses, on the streets. On Monday, February 10, 2025, I will have Romanian and European marks, I will document shopping and it will be the ideal opportunity for a “in your face” addressed to all those who want to economically destabilize Romania, in an unscrupulous political game that can return us Deep in the past ”wrote a user.
“On 10 I go to greet the ladies from Lidl and see what they bring to offers. Lidl massive ”added another.
Activists’ response
People are urged to go shopping in any supermarket or hypermarket, regardless of the locality, in protest against the boycott requested by Călin Georgescu.
“We have, finally, the possibility to protest against Georgescu and the so-called sovereigns in a civilized way, so let’s do it organized. (…) Călin Georgescu proposed boycotting of supermarkets, Monday, February 10th.
Guru copies a recent protest movement, from Croatia against the prices practiced by Kaufland, but he wants it in Romania against all bad supermarkets and “strangers” who hold and suck the people of the people.
Apart from the fact that supermarkets provide a significant number of places in Romania and pay state taxes, through them the Romanian goods, of the local producers are also marketed. Obviously, these aspects do not matter to the Crypto Communist Georgescu, nor for his supporters, as the concept of civilized trade does not matter ”the activist Dana Hering wrote.
The warning of the specialists
At the same time, the experts warned that Călin Georgescu’s exhortation of the hypermarkets could bury the food industry in Romania.
Romanian producers sell between 60 and 80% of production through retail networks, and the measure would have catastrophic consequences. There are other solutions for lowering prices, say specialists.
“At present, serious companies, registered companies, paying gifts, from the food industry sell about 60 and 80% of production through supermarket and hypermarket networks. Part of this commodity is perishable. As Barbu also said (n. Red. – Florin Barbu, Minister of Agriculture), at least 70% of the products in the supermarket are of Romanian origin, are from Romanian processors or Romanian producers. Well, there are not many fruit now, but that’s life. A boycott of shops is practically an indirect boycotting of Romanian production and processing. So much is the mind, so it does. Instead, he urges the population to go to buy from where there is tax evasion in general and the origin does not know. You saw, 1,000 tons of stolen garlic, sold in Romania. It was not in the supermarket, it was in the markets, like Romanian garlic ”said the leader of the Federation of Employers in the Food Industry – Romalimenta, Sorin Minea, for “Truth”.
