As in the region, citizens of North Macedonia have joined the boycott of shopping in supermarkets and shops today.
Support for the boycott in Macedonia was provided by pensioner associations, who called on pensioners not to shop today in order to send a signal to retailers that prices are too high and that they must be reduced.
Many citizens in North Macedonia have also shared public calls on social media not to shop in supermarkets due to high prices.
“On the demand side, it is necessary to work on the awareness of buyers so that, on the one hand, they report such unfair trade practices, and on the other hand, they somehow block them or do not buy from such retail chains that have unfair trade practices, and this must bear fruit,” the Institute for Economic Research and Policy emphasized.
The boycott is also supported by the Consumers’ Organization of Macedonia.
“The Consumers’ Association supports the citizens’ call on social media to encourage the business sector to lower product prices, especially food prices, because they are indeed more expensive. Although we know how product prices are formed, there is still something called the citizens’ standard. We hope that the Government will support citizens and that something will be done in the long term,” says President Mirjana Lončar.
The first boycott of retail chains began last Friday, January 24 in Croatia, when citizens decided to boycott shopping in stores for one day and managed to reduce the number of invoices issued, as stated by the Croatian Tax Administration, by as much as 53 percent, compared to the same day a week before.
The boycott spread this week, on Friday, to many Balkan countries, such as Montenegro, Serbia, Slovenia and Bosnia and Herzegovina, and again to Croatia, where citizens are boycotting shopping in supermarket chains, but also at gas stations, bakeries, and using services in cafes, AA writes.
