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Does not trade internally
There are excellent conditions for non-food traders in the Kėdainiai district consumer cooperative market: each has its own separate corner, a separate room where people are served.
The grocery market is functioning normally and non-grocery departments cannot. This is provided for in the quarantine restrictions.
The Ministry of Economy and Innovation, based on a government decree, reiterated that currently stores that are not groceries, kiosks and pavilions can only operate with a direct entrance from the outside or an independent entrance that can only be used by customers of that shop.
Meanwhile, the activities of market traders dealing in non-food products are prohibited, but the trade of non-food products is possible in open-air conditions from temporary commercial facilities: counters, stands and shelves.
As a result, long-term unemployed traders, who received little financial support from the government, who said it was not enough to live decently and pay taxes, decided to trade on the outskirts, close to the market.
Can no longer survive
“We take our clothes, shoes, bedding and other goods to the fields. We negotiate here. And what do we have left? We have no choice.
We receive 250 euros from the government. But how do you make a living from it?
After all, we also have to pay the rent to the market. We pay the rent and what do we have left?
Where do you live, you say? Where is the logic of power here?
We do not understand these solutions in any way and we believe that this is a ruin for the smallest business ”, the interviewed trader did not forgive the Lithuanian authorities.
Marketplace in Kėdainiai
© Market square / Dimitrijus Kuprijanovas
Uneven conditions
Small entrepreneurs complain of uneven conditions. They accuse the government of sponsoring major retail chains.
“Why is it possible to sell anything in department stores? They just limit the number of people and everything. But they trade both food and other products. So why can’t we?
After all, we can also limit the number of people, we can serve one customer at a time, we can meet all the requirements and win honestly and fairly, and not live off some kind of profit, ”the merchants got angry.
Invites to visit
Traders interviewed by Rinkos aikštė invited locals to come and buy food and non-food products at the Kėdainiai District Consumer Cooperative market to support smaller entrepreneurs.
“It just came to our knowledge then. We fear it will only get worse. But now it is so bad that we no longer know where to put it. We can only ask people to buy from us, to support us,” smiled the interviewed merchant sadly.
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