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80% OF SUPERMARKETS IN ARMENIA ARE 'CONVENTIONAL SHOPS'
Tert.am
18.08.11
A former Armenian Prime Minister Hrant Bagratyan has condemned a recent
decision by the Yerevan Municipality to dismantle kiosks in Yerevan.
Speaking at a news conference on Thursday, Bagratyan said that about
80 per cent of supermarkets in Yerevan do not meet the requirements
to be qualified as supermarkets.
"Today, 80 per cent of supermarkets opened in Yerevan work just as
conventional shops. There are no supermarkets there," said Bagratyan.
In his words, it is the state that regulates the quality of
supermarkets and shops so that to keep balance and avoid the formation
of oligopolies.
"Once requirements are set against supermarkets, half of them will
close down," he explained.
Further, Bagratyan said that whole sale trade is a tool at the hands
of the state to curb rising prices in retail. However, "when the
supermarkets win, become oligopolies, it again brings about inflation".
"It is clearly regulated. There is no state that does not regulate
that figure between whole sale and retail trade," explained Bagratyan.
When the state sees that the supermarkets are on the increase,
according to him, it toughens the requirements which lead to the
closing down of some of them and keeping a balance.
Tert.am
18.08.11
A former Armenian Prime Minister Hrant Bagratyan has condemned a recent
decision by the Yerevan Municipality to dismantle kiosks in Yerevan.
Speaking at a news conference on Thursday, Bagratyan said that about
80 per cent of supermarkets in Yerevan do not meet the requirements
to be qualified as supermarkets.
"Today, 80 per cent of supermarkets opened in Yerevan work just as
conventional shops. There are no supermarkets there," said Bagratyan.
In his words, it is the state that regulates the quality of
supermarkets and shops so that to keep balance and avoid the formation
of oligopolies.
"Once requirements are set against supermarkets, half of them will
close down," he explained.
Further, Bagratyan said that whole sale trade is a tool at the hands
of the state to curb rising prices in retail. However, "when the
supermarkets win, become oligopolies, it again brings about inflation".
"It is clearly regulated. There is no state that does not regulate
that figure between whole sale and retail trade," explained Bagratyan.
When the state sees that the supermarkets are on the increase,
according to him, it toughens the requirements which lead to the
closing down of some of them and keeping a balance.