Călin Georgescu’s urge, launched to his supporters, to boycott supermarkets could bury the food industry. 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.
Buyers are urged to stop buying photo supermarket: Archive
“A noble approach to support the Romanian producer ” He called Călin Georgescu “The call” he launched to his supporters not to shop in supermarkets or hypermarkets with foreign shareholders for a week, on February 10-16. During this time, the Romanians should go to the markets and the Romanian stores. Why? Because the prices that supermarkets are playing are too high, say Georgescu and supporters, and profits do not remain in the country.
The first to contradict them are the Romanians who have seen the exhortation on the social networks and have reacted, drawing attention to the fact that most of the neighborhood stores are supplied precisely from the supermarket and add, in turn, to the price, while the products in the markets , those few Romanian, all the more so this season, are largely uncontrolled and non -taxed, and from here the risks, first of all for health, which the buyers assume.
People show that not always the market is a photo solution: FB comments
“Is there in red peasants now? In us in the 80% market there are Samsari who buy from Kaufland and sell in the market at a double price ”, It is one of the comments on Facebook.
“At 6 o’clock in the afternoon, after work, everyone goes to villages after the eggs. And on the weekend with the minibus on product hunting from old people. What story do you live in these days? ”, It’s another reaction.
“It is practically an indirect boycotting of Romanian production and processing”
The leader of the Federation of Employers in the Food Industry – Romalimenta, Sorin Minea, says that, through the exhortation, Călin Georgescu proves that he does not know anything about sales in supermarkets and hypermarkets or about the Romanian food industry, instead his words can do much harm to Romanians. .
“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 have seen, 1,000 tons of stolen garlic, sold in Romania. It was not in the supermarket, it was in the markets, like Romanian garlic ”said Minea, for the “truth”.
Even one boycot day would cause considerable losses for producers who deliver to retail largely perishable products, but if sales collapse for a week “Losses are catastrophic.” Employees in the food industry, several hundred thousand people, would suffer, the sector and so on a decrease in sales.
“We will remember him and congratulate him on the fact that he wants to boycott what we do and our work. (…) After all the joys, with the facilities, now they need a decrease in production. It is a time when sales go wrong, people have no money, people are scared and keep money with their teeth. Of course, the whole issue is heading against employees, who will not have work or work less than until now, on a lower income. So, it’s a completely perverse request ”, added the Romalimenta leader. Minea also pointed out that the food industry is developing with European funds, and the interruption of these funding means bankruptcy.
“I point out that we survive and develop on European funds. We take the money from Europe, if I didn’t tell him. And to cancel us all the European facilities and nonsense like this … (…) That he wants to run, and Nea ‘Gheorghe is free to run, but on this kind, with Patriotard, he actually brings serious disadvantages. – And so far we have not put – a branch that is the largest employer in Romania. (…) If we disappear, of course, merchandise will come from elsewhere, it is absolutely normal. The merchandise comes from Germany. Well, and? Win those, we don’t win ”Minea stressed.
“It shows that you have no solutions than to protest”
The boycotting of supermarkets is listed as a “childish” idea by the financial analyst Adrian Negrescu. He says that the boycott will not in any case determine the lowering of prices, instead it shows the electoral character of this proposal and the lack of economic notions.
“It is easy to climb the wave of general dissatisfaction caused by inflation and propose radical solutions, in the genre of the boycott. This proves, on the one hand, that you have no minimal economic knowledge of pricing and then shows that you have no other solutions than protest. ”says Negrescu, for “Truth”.
The culprits for the fact that we have the largest inflation in the European Union, adds the financial analyst, you must look for the Government, where we should also ask for solutions to pay less on the daily basket.
“The culprits for increasing the prices in Romania – we have the largest inflation in the EU for one year – you have to look for the Victoria Palace, where, in the last 2 years, three waves of tax increases, excise duties, changes in force with force of work. Our politicians without economic vision are guilty of increases, because instead of taking measures to reduce costs with energy, gases, fuels, salaries, by tax decreases, they have raised them in a unique approach at European level. This is how we came to have a double inflation compared to the other European countries, through the absurd ceilings and the other measures decided in the pen, which put gas on the fire of the increases ”, explained Adrian Negrescu.
The boycotting of hypermarkets, adds, “It’s like a rub on a wooden foot.” and will make more damage. The analyst points out, like Sorin Minea, the fact that almost 80% of the goods sold by hypermarkets are produced in the country, by Romanian companies, and a decrease in sales will lead to financial losses and layoffs. “In other words, we have failed to economically”notes Negrescu.
On the other hand, the measures that could lead to the desired price drops must come from the governors area.
“Let’s give up the ceilings to add food, Which have led to negative effects in prices, let us allow the hypermarkets to compete real through prices and services. In addition, it is time to give up the price and gas capping that made the Romanian companies have higher costs than those in other countries and, extremely important, to reduce business taxes and especially on work, where We pay the highest taxes on low EU salaries. In addition, what alternative do we have in modern, fiscalized trade? The neighborhood markets where prices often are higher than in hypermarkets? Where is it paid without a fiscal receipt and where is the heaven of samsarilor? ”, Negrescu concluded.
