Geopolitics of dumplings

How Russians began to buy less and eat less

From the message about the shortage of a third of Russians money for shoes upstairs, it seems, they lost the gift of coherent speech. Dmitry Peskov suddenly announced that the corresponding study by Rosstat should not be considered from an applied point of view - it, they say, is of an academic nature.

Well, of course! And theoretical. After all, it is unlikely that Dmitry Sergeevich is familiar with at least one person who would know those who do not have enough for shoes.

By the way, that Rosstat report also says that more than half of Russians are not able to pay for an urgent visit to the doctor, but everyone has long been accustomed to this. But with the shoes it turned out ugly. Many people think that this is some kind of nonsense. Something that cannot be, but it is present!

Still don't believe? Here's more news for you: they want to include vitamins in the consumer basket. But they don’t know how to get people to spend money on them, and not on shoes for children, for example. Deputy Prime Minister Alexei Gordeev even announced the need to fortify a number of food products, just to be sure. For what? They began to eat too badly, it is necessary to feed artificially.

A year and a half ago, there was a tangible leap into poverty in the country. Consumption has plummeted. Products on the shelves became worse, the assortment fell sharply, people began to buy less.

Literally less. First, the budget has been cut. And here - the poorer the person, the higher inflation for him, because basic products have risen in price most of all in recent years. For example, red caviar has fallen in price, but what about a rural pensioner? Secondly, it is difficult for a poor person to immediately part with a large sum. This is both psychological stress and additional risks. If a family lives from paycheck to advance and constantly borrows, all expenses are scheduled: for a loan, for children for lunch, a birthday present, boots, again. They can’t even buy five thousand at once, they simply won’t have money left in their wallets. Therefore, in the outback, more and more people are now buying a little bit for one evening: dumplings for themselves, an apple for their children, a pound of chicken heads for a dog, food for a cat. According to Romir (inflation-adjusted), the real average check fell by 33% between 2014 and 2018. People buy less and choose what is cheaper.

Recently, one LiveJournal user thought of looking at the reports of Magnit and Pyaterochka on revenue per square meter of retail space.

So, adjusted for inflation, it turned out that the failure in different segments of consumption by 2017 amounted to at least 20 to 30%.

You know, the other day I remembered my Siberian childhood and wanted dumplings. In the village store, for fun, I asked for a dumpling - they gave me a whole pile. And everyone who stood nearby (including the seller) had these things at home for the accelerated modeling of dumplings, and everyone knew how to use them, because they constantly sculpt. I wrote about this on Facebook and was completely overwhelmed by the comments: it turns out that even among seemingly prosperous people, many people regularly make dumplings or eat store-bought ones. Some - several times a week.

One girl wrote that her mother now makes her eat dumplings directly with the water in which they were boiled, and with bread! Muscovite, studying at the Russian State University for the Humanities.

After all, there was a period when, from a well-fed life, they began to forget about dumplings in Russia, and now, look, the people remembered! He took out Soviet dumplings from his mother's cabinets and masters them for series about a rich life. Because no other reliable method has yet been invented, how to make two dinners for a large family from 300 grams of meat, so that it is both satisfying and smells of meat.

Poverty returned to Russia somehow suddenly and immediately settled down thoroughly, hitting all cities and villages and almost all social strata.

A third of the people without boots? Half missing a doctor's appointment? It's all nonsense. People are eating less! Not just worse, but less.

It was fashionable to talk about the final confrontation between the TV and the refrigerator. But even the most caustic skeptics hardly guessed how heavy losses the refrigerator would suffer in this skirmish. The battle has just begun, and many have nothing to put into it.