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A fair has opened in Krasnodar where they sell expired products

A fair has opened a couple of kilometers from the city administration in Krasnodar, where they sell expired products.

You can easily find this fair if you walk from the City Center residential complex to Kommunarov Street. There is a banner posted there: “Clothes Fair. 200 meters. St. Putevaya, 5/1".

But the shopping row begins not two hundred meters later, but much earlier - right on the roadway.

Pensioners sell their old things, laying them out in front of them on the asphalt covered with oilcloth or cloth, or hanging them in garages. Among the goods offered for sale you can find clothes and shoes, toys, books and old dishes. But the most interesting thing is that right on the roadway, food items are laid out in cardboard boxes: bread, milk, chicken, sandwiches, packaged salads, baby food. All of these products have expired.

“Overdue” or “overdue” is what these products are called here.

Buyers rummage through drawers and choose something. Men are dragging new packages of expired products out of the car. Apparently, it had just been brought from some supermarket.

Sellers explain that these products are for dogs and cats. However, it is not dogs and cats who rummage through boxes of expired food, but Krasnodar pensioners.

I ask one of the elderly women whether she really buys “out-of-date” food for her pets. She replies that she is buying for herself. “You have to live somehow. I won’t buy food for three hundred rubles in a store. I’ll buy it here.”

Indeed, the prices here are significantly lower than the cost at which these products were sold in supermarkets when they were fresh.

I was offered a sliced ​​loaf that had expired the day before for 20 rubles. In the store it costs four times more.

I’m surprised how the mayor of Krasnodar allows this to happen a couple of kilometers from his administration.

“What does that have to do with him?” — the woman shrugs.

However, the mayor of Krasnodar, Evgeny Naumov, probably still cares about the sale of expired products at the city flea market. Recently, the channel of the municipal control center of the city of Krasnodar notified citizens that, according to a resolution of the city administration, at Putevaya, 5/1, there is a fair for the sale of non-food products and used goods. “The sale of food products is not provided for at this fair. To exclude these facts, the Department of Goods and Services carried out explanatory work with the organizers of the fair to prevent the sale of goods not provided for by the resolution, as well as expired goods that can harm the life and health of consumers,” the municipal control center reported.

Apparently, as a result of the explanatory work of officials, the trade in expired products moved from the fair territory even closer to the consumer - to the roadway.

“Now is not the time to throw away expired food. pensioners willingly buy them,” explained Anastasia, an employee of one of the city’s Magnit stores.

She does not sell expired goods brought from work at the fair on Puteva; she already has her own client base. Retired neighbors willingly buy expired products. “I need to pay my loans,” explains Anastasia.

Apparently, the same reason (lack of money), as well as high food inflation, forces Krasnodar pensioners to buy “outdated” goods.