As you know, food prices in the markets continue to burn painfully. Even in daily grocery shopping without meat or chicken, it is necessary to sacrifice at least 100 TL for the most basic needs.
Agricultural Credit Cooperatives markets, which sell with lower labels on this issue that disturbs millions of people, have recently started to become popular. President Erdogan, who has been shopping at this market in the past days; “Prices are very reasonable. We have ordered the construction of about a thousand such markets throughout Turkey,” he said.
Agricultural Cooperative markets bring domestic production to their stores
Following these statements, Bayram Ali Yıldırım, General Manager of the Agricultural Cooperative Market, told Hürriyet about his near-term plans. Stating that they provide service in dozens of cities such as Ankara, Sivas, Antalya, Mersin, İzmir and Konya, including both sides of Istanbul, Yıldırım said that they aim to open 700 stores by the end of this year.
Stating that they have a specific strategy for the years 2021-2026, Yıldırım stated that they want to increase the number of their stores to 1000 in 2022, and that they also want to bring KoopSanal services to Turkish consumers together with the KoopGross and KoopGel stores currently only in Gaziantep.
“We are not an arrangement store”
Stating that it is wrong for the citizens to expect a big price difference between the normal markets and the Agricultural Cooperative Market, Yıldırım used the following statements in the continuation of his statement; “Customers expect the price difference to be higher. When we keep the price at a certain point, the competitors cannot increase it much, they make adjustments according to us. Our job is not a regulation store, we are not a regulation store. We operate commercially, we provide access to quality products produced by Turkish workers at affordable prices. We are a cooperative structure. We aim to buy the products of Turkish farmers, support them and bring them together with the citizens. We have a strategy for 2021-2026. “
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