If you can today, postpone shopping in large chains, postpone it for another day. If you can, of course. The boycott is the way to make the authorities, the National Assembly, the government pay attention to the prices of basic food products in stores and take measures to lower them. This was announced to Lili Marinkova in the studio “FAKT“ and the show “Conversation“ Maya Manolova, the leader of “Izprav se.BG“.
“As in other countries in the Balkans, the boycotts showed that they have their meaning. In the third boycott of the food chains, they responded with promotions and realized 2 million leva more turnover. On that day, retail chains put on promotions and equipment for 20 leva. We can't be angry with the poor Bulgarian population, because most of them shop when prices are half off. But that's something too," Manolova shared.
"People have been calling the chairman of a pensioner's association, who is among the initiators of the boycott, to ask him when there will be another boycott so they can shop on a promotion. That's how the "boycott-promotions" battle finds its meaning. If there are always big discounts on Thursdays, it's still something. Now I hear analysts and politicians saying that boycotts are not the way. And what is the way, I ask? If there were no boycott, there would be no reaction from the government that it would deal with prices. But the authorities would never admit to the problem with prices, because whatever they say, it remains only as a good intention,“ added Manolova.
See more of the conversation in the VIDEO.