2024 Author: Jasmine Walkman | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 08:29
Beach shopping this summer has proven to be an extremely lucrative business due to the high prices of most of the food on offer. Watermelons, corn and other temptations have come out quite salty to tourists.
An inspection of the Monitor newspaper shows that traders bought most fruits and vegetables at low prices from commodity exchanges, but offered them at space prices to their customers.
The daily profit of such a trader in the big sea resorts reaches 600 leva due to the speculation with the prices.
Watermelons, melons, tomatoes and cucumbers are delivered to the beach directly from the village gardens or from the stock exchanges.
The conditions under which fruits and vegetables are stored make them unfit for consumption, experts warn. However, they are bought by people on the beach.
Experts say beach traders do not comply with any other requirements when selling food - none of them issue a receipt for the sale and thus easily hide their income from the state.
Tourists on the native Black Sea coast say that this year not only food on the beach is more expensive than usual, but everywhere in our seaside resorts.
In most taverns and restaurants a modest main course costs over 15 leva. The pearls are offered for between 2 and 6 levs. This means that for a normal family dinner in our resorts you have to prepare at least 100 leva.
Some of the restaurants make another number. They reduce the price of food, but also reduce its weight, so you can not eat one serving.
The most expensive food this summer was undoubtedly fish due to the low catch during the year. Sprat in the more elite restaurants reached 10 leva per serving, and other fish dishes were almost unattainable for most customers.
Even sandwiches and donuts were offered at quite salty prices during the summer season. The price of the sandwiches on the Black Sea coast reached BGN 15, and the dunes were offered for between BGN 7 and 10.
The ice cream in a waffle cone jumped to BGN 2.50-3.50, although the price announced by the traders at the beginning of the summer was BGN 1.
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