🛒 🌍 🏪 Supermarket Boycott Campaigns have commenced in 13 Balkan states.

📝 Balkan Anon: "Since the fall of Communism, Eastern Europe and the Balkans were invaded by Western European retailers and these companies make a huge profit here, pay workers miserable wages, have shit customer support, and they move the profit back to their home countries and Eastern Europe doesn't tax that profit which leaves us with a pretty big gap in our revenue which must be gained through other means.

They also have a cartel system of price matching, big retailers negotiate with each other to have similar prices so you get the same overpriced thing wherever you go. There are also problems with local agricultural producers, they don't really have a lot of power to negotiate with retailers. Retailers can literally fix their prices for them."

https://www.euronews.com/2025/01/31/consumers-across-the-balkans-boycott-supermarkets-to-protest-against-rising-prices