With direct proportion to the deteriorating economic situation in Greece spreading all sorts of con

With direct proportion to the deteriorating economic situation in Greece spreading all sorts of consumer alternatives. This stems from a number of texts that appear recently and in the mass media. Without the involvement chains scalper and other intermediaries are already many places sell only potatoes, but also rice, flour, olive oil, meat or honey. Growing range of services based on sharing. Town Hall began renting a cheap unused land on which tenants based flower beds and boxes of vegetables. According to Guardian reporters across the country open dealings led by volunteers, which you can buy new clothes ice and other basic goods consumption is only slightly more expensive than the factory or exchanged for another - regardless of supply and demand. According to Kathimerini sheet already exist and city virtual marketplace in which the buying and selling over the Internet for local currency. This famous yet have established citizens of Volos and each day it is used by over 800 of them. Articles ice and analysis to specialized servers reveal that it is not just a series of local achievements, rather than a blanket celořeckou change. Number of initiatives, however, is rapidly growing and increasing their diversity. In addition, a number of alternatives begins to appear in mimospotřebních areas: social services and local politics. From north to Athens topic after time again visible television Al Jazeera, whose summary text from Monday spreading nets. Co-Qatari station in recent weeks went to Greece to four months after the birth of the bra revolution mborové learned how to come results. With the help of numbers Hellenic Statistical Authority found the following: the price of potatoes dropped in the last year, on average, about one quarter the price of oil, flour and rice until half. It happened yet, despite the general trend - while Greek GDP has been declining since the beginning of the crisis average of 5 percent per year, consumer prices increasing by an average of 3.7 percent. ice Al Jazeera reporters to recall, as a "revolution" was: potato growers from around Nevrokópionu the north in winter failed to get the government to restrict the importation of cheap commodities from Egypt. Organized by the agent offered them redemption price of 10 cents per kilo, in stores while potatoes were selling ice for 55-80 cents. Nevrokópionští and brought the wrath of the fifth Feb. 10 tons of potatoes in Thessaloniki and demonstratively is handed out to people.
Crime scene noticed a professor of agricultural marketing Aristotelian University of Thessaloniki, Christos Kamenides, who arranged the sale of potatoes without intermediaries at the university campus. In one day they sold 50 tons, at a cost of 25 cents per kilo. Shortly after the farmer approached and civic initiative from the city of Katerini, which started from mid-February to organize the importation and sale of agricultural cultivation in large quantities. Sale directly from farmers now works in a number of cities from Thessaloniki to Athens. Events usually organize town hall or civic initiatives on the website, people can crop order. Farmers is subsequently deliver and sell directly ice from the bucket. In the said Katerini ice has been this way purchases 55 percent of the city. The advantage for the seller is in addition to sales prices and also the fact that they are paid in cash. Traffickers and supermarkets paid them usually checks the four-to six-month maturities. Obstacles remain According to other findings, Al Jazeera, however, new ways of consumption, easy to enforce. Strings and society in Greece, trafficking control and packing and sorting plants, allowing them to increase the cost of the selected farmers. Direct sales in addition ice competes with established cooperatives that operate in the country from 80 years and have the chains better conditions and farmers' markets. These potato-controlled again by traffickers who use consumer fashion and forcing ice candidates to sell at high prices. The Wall Street Journal also points out that the proponents of direct sales fail to penetrate even the classic Stankov marketplace. For sale at the booth in Greece requires special licenses, the number is limited, ice and the owners provide the market ice is again mainly traffickers. Interest groups have also previously enforced quotas of the maximum quantity of goods that can offer this form. Economists, on which the WSJ refers, therefore pervasive consumer alternatives do not believe - rather ice hope that the movement ice will create the desired pressure on the relaxation of the rules of business and other "desirable reform." Neither Guardian ice yet perceive the expansion of said alternatives ice with uncritical enthusiasm. The authors emphasize that much more new non-market institutions arises from charitable impulses - as a response to social problems growing share of the population. In this context, particular mention popularity cheap soup soup kitchens in big cities (Athens in them today consumes every 11 inhabitants), emergency dispensaries and charity bakeries. Thessaloniki National Theatre then such plans in the next season to sell tickets for food to be subsequently distributed to the needy. Al Jazeera, ice however, notes several individuals from local politics to