
Consumers
A new one-week boycott of shops
The Consumer Protection Association "Effectiva" called on consumers in Serbia to boycott the DIS trade chain for a week.
The Consumer Protection Association "Effectiva" called on consumers in Serbia to boycott the DIS trade chain for a week.
Croatia passed the Law on Extraordinary Price Control Measures. Could Serbia get it and does it need it, if the citizens unreservedly besiege supermarkets and shopping malls
After the one-day, consumer association Effectiva called for a five-day boycott of large retail chains. The reason is high prices, and the previous boycott of shops resulted in a decrease in turnover by a third
The association for consumer protection "Effectiva" called on citizens to boycott the purchase of groceries in large retail chains on Friday because of the "most expensive groceries in Europe". In the stores, it really seems that there are fewer customers than usual, although before the boycott they lowered the prices massively
On the first Friday of the store boycott in Croatia, 30 million euros less was spent in stores than a week earlier. Now consumers in Serbia, Montenegro and Bosnia and Herzegovina are also called to boycott on Friday
For consumers who choose this system, the one that existed for decades - cheaper electricity at night and more expensive during the day - is being abolished. Instead, they will pay for electricity at the prices they are on the stock market
The euphoria of Black Friday in Serbia may exist, but it is unjustified, because on the ground, apart from honorable exceptions, real discounts are not a practice, says Dejan Gavrilović from the Consumers' Association Eftekrifa
The Commission for the Protection of Competition initiated proceedings against four trade chains, due to the suspicion that they agreed on prices for 35 products. These are Deleuze, Univerexport, Mercator S and DIS. What customers can do if price fixing is proven
Dejan Gavrilović from the "Effectiva" association told "Vreme" that there are unsafe products on the Serbian market because there is absolutely no control and because "everything is down to luck."
In order to inform customers in stores, in France they figured out how to let consumers know that the weight of the products has been reduced, so "shrinkflation" stickers come into effect in supermarkets. In Serbia, this still does not exist.
Cable television, internet, landline and mobile telephony have gone up in price by up to 1200 dinars in the last year. At the same time, Telekom offers services for dinars to those who become their subscribers. Consumers believe that this type of business is economically unjustified
The last one-week boycott The association announced that this is the last weekly boycott and that they will soon agree on the next steps. "During this week, we will conduct a survey and ask consumers what they suggest as the next step. I believe that the boycott of certain retail chains will continue for a long period of time," Dejan Gavrilović from the Association "Efektiva" told "Vreme". That association has so far called for a weekly boycott of four retail chains, and DIS is the fifth in a row. The first week Deleza stores were boycotted, including Maxi and Shop&Go, the following week Mercator stores were boycotted, then it was Lidl and Univerexport.', 'pageDate': '2025-03-24 15:59:27', 'pageAuthor': authors, 'visitorType': visitor_type, }); console.log(post_id); console.log('Pushed'); });View this post on Instagram