People's grocery stores in Russia, which are within walking distance, "Pyaterochka", "Kopeyka", "Narodny", etc. are owned by … foreign companies.
Perhaps this information will give a new look at why prices are rising, why supermarkets do not support the Russian manufacturer, why small retail grocery stores are being destroyed everywhere and where money is going.
Products and prices for them are more serious, painful and more important to every person in the country than distant and incomprehensible politics, economics and finance.
Here is a list of countries where the largest grocery chains are registered, with hundreds of thousands of stores throughout Russia
1. "Auchan" (France), 2. "OK" (Luxembourg), 3. "Pyaterochka" (Netherlands), 4. "Crossroads" (Netherlands), Promotional video:
5. "Carousel" (Netherlands), 6. "MetroCash & Carry" (Germany), 7. "Ribbon" (British Virgin Islands), 8. "Globe" (Cyprus), 9. "Billa" (Austria),
10. "Selgros" (Germany), 11. "Leroy Merlin" (France), 12. "Magnit" (Cyprus offshore Lavreno Ltd.), 13. "Kopeyka" (Netherlands), 14. "We" (Netherlands), 15. "Mercado Supercenter" (Netherlands), 16. "Basket" (Netherlands ", 17. "Paterson" (netherlands), 18. "People's" (Netherlands), 19. "Simbirka" (Netherlands), 20. "Proviant" (Netherlands), 21. "Fair" (Netherlands), 22. Troika (Netherlands), 23. "Family" (Netherlands), 24. "Thrifty family" (Netherlands), 25. "World of Products" (Netherlands), 26. "A5" (Netherlands), 27. "Spar" (Netherlands), 28. "Universam" (Netherlands), 29. "Tamerlane" (Netherlands), 30. Purchase (Netherlands).
“A very large percentage of the market and a considerable segment of our wallet falls on the goods of the necessity that we must support every day.
These are personal hygiene products. These are also detergents. This and other household chemicals that we use almost automatically. But you go to the store and what do you see? Foreign brands. Infinite high cost ", - says Gleb Veschaev, director of the information and analytical center for social technologies "Crassus".
“It turns out that foreign capital has penetrated with its tentacles into every cell of Russian business. And here, on the spot, the chain hypermarkets take a protective position in relation to Western producers.
The chain is being closed, turning Russia into an instrument for pumping money out of the Russian population and transferring it to third countries.
Chain stores are the main striking force of Western business. They, like huge vacuum cleaners, suck up cash flows and take foreign currency abroad. So far, hypermarkets are openly working against Russia.
Yes, hypermarkets have destroyed the Russian retail chain. Yes, they left a large part of the population unemployed and unable to support their families. Then at least give normal service in return.
But he is not. Lobbying the interests of Western brands, understating prices, playing with currency prices - everything is aimed at supporting the foreign market on Russian territory and drowning Russian manufacturers. While the hypermarkets function like huge factories for the export of profits from Russia."
“Despite all the political statements of the chains that, they say, they keep their prices, the entire burden of fulfilling this statement fell on the producers. The networks themselves have not cut their costs. They shifted everything to the manufacturer.
These producers are keeping normal prices. And they not only keep, but even reduce.
Networks instead of the announced reduction or maintenance of prices, also raised prices for manufacturers.
If earlier the manufacturer returned 5 percent to the network, now it is 10 percent in the form of, so to speak, internal bonuses. And here you also need to add various levies, marketing fees, etc. Even the logistics, which today have also been reduced, and it fell as an additional burden on the shoulders of the manufacturer."
There can be no real talk of any import substitution, says Veshchaev, because the West does not intend to negotiate with Russia. And grocery store chains are the "striking force of Western business." They suck money out of the population and take it abroad at a tremendous rate. It became quite obvious that grocery chain stores are now part of the political system.
Lobbying the interests of Western brands, understating prices, playing with currency prices - everything is aimed at supporting the foreign market on Russian territory and drowning Russian manufacturers.
But each of us is able to choose the place where to buy the goods. Even in Western chain stores, we can choose a domestic product or a product instead of an imported one, and thus “vote with the ruble”.
Author: Anna Kislichenko