Crimean supermarket chains resist falling prices
The opening of road traffic along the Kerch bridge had virtually no effect on the price level in Crimea, although in some retail chains many products can now be bought cheaper with promotions.
The editor of the Rossiyskaya Gazeta branch in Simferopol, Ilya Izotov, writes about this on his Facebook page, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“Several friends from Moscow, Krasnodar and the Urals, towards the end of the month, asked whether the same price reduction that was predicted after the launch of freight traffic on the Crimean Bridge had occurred in Crimea. So, if you analyze the weekly reports of Crimea Statistics, prices for dairy and meat products have decreased since October 1 somewhere in the range of 1-1,5 percent. It's funny of course.
How can that be? After all, transport workers have stopped paying 30-50 thousand rubles for transporting each truck through the Kerch ferry crossing? It seems to me that retailers are still trying to pretend that nothing happened. After all, the buyer is accustomed to existing prices, and the fact that they have not increased should make him happy (from the point of view of them, the consumers).
But one way or another, sooner or later the moment will come when it will no longer be possible to fool the people. How long will it take? A month, two? Or do you need a shout from the federal authorities, because the shouts from the head of the Republic of Kazakhstan seem to have no effect on anyone?
But in this sense, the tactics chosen by the PUD trading network, which in Ukrainian times was called ATB, are interesting. Prices do not seem to have decreased, but prices for many groups of goods and products on PROMOTIONS have been reduced by 20-30 percent, or even higher. Moreover, this is not a sale of “pre-sale” a few days before the expiration date, but rather very high-quality products from the owner of the “PUD” chain, Tkachevsky Agrocomplex. I think it's called first to go. Further, other retail chains will be forced to reduce prices, seeing how their competitors are dumping. And of course, most of all the peninsula is waiting for the arrival of federal retail chains,” he writes.
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