2024 Author: Jasmine Walkman | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 08:29
A new and controversial idea is being discussed in closed sessions of socialist deputies. The proposal of the Red MPs is to introduce a restriction on the working hours of large chains of stores and hypermarkets. According to BSP deputies, a ban on working on weekends of large retail chains should be introduced.
According to Spas Penchev, Deputy Chairman of the Coalition for Bulgaria, the imposition of a ban on work over the weekend will encourage customers to use the services of small and medium-sized businesses.
Left-wing lawmakers recall that hundreds of small and medium-sized enterprises have gone bankrupt in the last two or three years.
In fact, the first victims of the competitive war of the retail chains were not the neighborhood stores, but hundreds of Bulgarian producers.
Domestic producers were forced by hypermarkets and chain store owners to sell their goods for next to nothing.
More than 100 different types of fees for access to the shelves were illegally collected from them. It was also a common practice to hold promotions, during which domestic products were sold at prices that did not even cover the cost of the product.
Many of the neighborhood groceries and shops simply could not withstand the competition of the big food chains and were forced to "close the shutters". It is likely that the Socialists' proposal will be included in the new Law on Retail Chains, which has been at the draft stage for the second year in a row.
The proposal of the BSP is met with open arms by most owners of large retail outlets and chain stores.
According to Yordan Mateev, executive director of the Association for Modern Trade, which includes all owners of large retail outlets, such a requirement is contrary to the principles of the free economy.
Mateev claims that: "The customer must choose where to shop, and not to do so with administrative intervention." Large retailers have expressed concern that such regulations should be avoided because they run counter to free trade principles. "It is starting to smell like a centralized, not a market economy," Yordan Mateev concluded.
Whether the controversial idea will be adopted and enshrined in the draft law on retail chains will become clear in early September, when the parliamentary vacation ends and the native parliamentarians will return to their jobs.
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