The Croatian Friday retail boycotts enter their third week, with the supermarket chain Konzum facing a full week-long boycott.

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by JimmyRecard

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  2. Some further images from the local media coverage, machine translated:

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    https://www.vecernji.hr/vijesti/foto-trgovci-snizili-cijene-ali-kupaca-nigdje-krenuo-novi-opci-bojkot-u-hrvatskoj-1836368
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    For context (summary generated by an LLM):

    In January 2025, a series of retail boycotts began in Southeast Europe, primarily initiated in Croatia on January 24 due to rising prices and inflation. The boycotts quickly spread to Serbia, Montenegro, Bosnia and Herzegovina, North Macedonia, and Slovenia, with planned actions in other countries like Slovakia and Romania. The protests were fuelled by soaring food prices, with basic items seeing increases of up to 60%. In Croatia, the inflation surge was linked to various factors, including the country’s recent entry into the Eurozone and the dominance of large retailers.

    The boycott gained massive public support, with participants avoiding purchases at grocery stores and restaurants, leading to significant drops in retail sales. Following Croatia’s lead, other nations in the region began organising their own boycotts, calling for coordinated actions on January 31. Countries like Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Greece, Hungary, Kosovo, Montenegro, and North Macedonia have all seen similar movements arise in response to high living costs. Each country’s boycott focuses on local retailers and aims to pressure authorities to address inflation and rising prices. The ongoing consumer actions reflect widespread dissatisfaction with economic conditions across Southeast Europe.

  3. One thing I’ve always wondered about these protests is – where are people getting their groceries then? People still need to eat.

    Are they shopping at smaller independent grocery shops?

  5. what makes me sad is all that fresh produce probably ending up in a trashcan, so much wasted food 🙁

  7. There were initiatives to do our own boycott, but our supermarkets are now crowded with Croatians.

    I just started boycotting DM, my former favorite venue, they have double or even triple the price as in Germany.

  8. To be fair, if the prices for the meat are correct, it does seem pretty cheap. 3,99€ a kg?

  10. It is time to go back to 14th century small independent shops. It is becoming quite obvious how the retail giants are squeezing money out of people and even small farmers. I like it better system of the olden times, where it benefited both the small and large sellers and locals to buy and have access to goods. It was quite healthy and positively enterprising, business and job opportunities, not to mention a healthy competition unlike what we have today – merger and hostile acquisitions, of business, resources and the squeezing of masses. It did have challenges with war and other political issues but not like today.

    Love the unity of Croatians 🙂 Hope you achieve success!

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