The truth about retail chains

2024 Author: Seth Attwood | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 15:55

A publicistic series by Andrei Razumovsky, exposing the monopoly of retail chains on the Russian market. All thinking people are sure to watch. This topic is definitely more important than Syria, France, Korea and what else does the major Russian media feed the inhabitants.

Why are retail chains more important than oil and gas?

Who owns the largest Russian trading companies? On whom does our food security depend? Public figure Andrei Razumovsky conducted his own investigation and filmed a series of stories about the problem of expansion of international and federal food chains in the domestic food retail market.

How do networks destroy domestic producers and suppliers?

Why is food in stores getting worse every day, and more and more expensive? Who Really Owns the Networks? How does network expansion threaten Russia's security and when will the point of no return be reached? And most importantly, what to do with all this?

Year after year, thousands of active and enterprising people are deprived of the businesses that they built with sweat and blood

Hundreds of thousands of ordinary citizens lose their jobs and end up on the labor market overflowing with foreign migrant workers. The middle class is the basis of stability and prosperity of the state, the most active, capable and creative part of society is thrown to the sidelines.

According to Sberbank analysts, the share of Russian citizens who consider themselves to be the middle class has decreased by 14 million people over the past two years.

The middle class is increasingly faced with a choice: either to leave in search of a better life abroad, or slide down the social ladder in their own country. The environment from which the new Morozovs and Tretyakovs should emerge is today breeding emigrants and bankrupts. Tomorrow she will give birth to new Chernovs and Savinkovs.

The bias in the development of retail trade in the direction of one single player - large chain retail - deforms the national economy, kills small and medium-sized domestic producers, and with them the Russian middle class.

Let's stop and think: does Russia need a middle class? And if necessary, is it worth it to destroy it further?

Who owns the large food chains operating in Russia?

Almost all large food chains operating in Russia are either directly owned or in fact subordinate to foreign capital. And this is in the industry on which such fundamental things depend as the level of retail prices, the consumer basket, the inflation index, and through them millions of Russian consumers, hundreds of thousands of domestic producers, and, ultimately, food, and, consequently, the national security of the country.

Large network retail and quality of service to the population

British philosopher, economist and politician John Stuart Mill once said: "Monopoly in any form is taxing diligence to support laziness, if not robbery." All the frames that you will see in our video (smoked fish with mold, cutlets from cutlets, barbecue with "seasoning" of broken glass, gastronomic "time machine", grilled chicken from expired meat, rotten vegetables and fruits) is not an accident, but absolutely natural consequences of monopoly. At the same time, the larger (on a national scale) the network, and the greater its market share, the worse it is with the same "quality of service to the population." And this is today - when networks are only growing. Imagine what will happen to the "service" in five to ten years, when the networks are fully grown.

Why are groceries getting worse and more expensive in stores?

For Russia, where not one, but several generations have passed through hunger and chronic malnutrition over the past hundred years, food and everything connected with it is a special topic. Listen to those who passed the blockade of Leningrad or the famine of the forty-sixth-forty-seventh years and you will immediately understand everything.

Our people, having survived the blood and devastation of civilian life, the monstrous molokh of collectivization and mass repressions, the most terrible war in the history of mankind, the collapse of the country, deception, betrayal and poverty of the 90s, like no other, needs a respite, in a normal, calm and well-fed life.

So why in a country that has been living in a market economy for more than a quarter of a century, in which chain retail occupies almost half of the market in the regions and 70-80% in Moscow and St. Petersburg, food products are getting worse every day, but cost more expensive?

Don't you think? Let's figure it out.