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> that food is still MUCH LOWER QUALITY than the one sold in Western Europe It depends where you shop. A Profi will sell low-quality products regardless of whe

> that food is still MUCH LOWER QUALITY than the one sold in Western Europe It depends where you shop. A Profi will sell low-quality products regardless of whether it is in a big city or a small town. On the other hand, only in the big city can you shop at Mega Image, which sells a lot of products identical to their Western European versions. Its distribution network is much better than any of the competition. Carrefour and Auchan's more expensive generic brands are identical to that sold in the West (their cheaper generic brands, however, are such crap I don’t even know who would buy it). Meat, I don’t know because I don’t eat it.

alt_f4 9y ago
> It depends where you shop It does not. You're not getting my point. You go to a Profi or Mega Image and you buy a Milka chocolate, it is the same Milka chocolate because there is only 1 distributor and this is the version of Milka chocolate that gets manufactured for Romania, Bulgaria, etc. And it's shit - it has less cocoa, it is 90g instead of 100g, it is filled with sugar substitutes. You go to Germany, to an EDEKA or a REWE, and you buy the same Milk chocolate - it has higher % cocoa, it is 100g, it contains milk, cocoa and sugar, no chemical substitutes. I can make the exact same point for soft drinks and pretty much all packaged goods. Hell, even things like laundry detergents are diluted compared to their western counterparts.
- Mediterraneo10 9y ago
  The whole point of going to a Mega Image is that you don’t have to buy a Milka. Instead, you can buy a Western European chocolate brand in its original Western European version, and for not significantly more money than that Milka would cost in a Profi or village shop. Similarly, at a Carrefour or Auchan you could buy the generic-label chocolate, which is just the French version with a Romanian ingredients sticker pasted on it, for the same price as a Milka. People in big cities have access to plenty of high-quality products if they just take advantage of that opportunity and ignore stuff like your Milka example. It is people in small towns and villages who are forced to buy shit food.
  - alt_f4 9y ago
    Yeah and that is what people have been doing. But it's a pretty sad state of affairs when the best chocolate you can get is generic-label chocolate from Carrefour. Or, if you're lucky enough to live around one / can afford to shop at a place that imports foreign products from UK / Germany outside of the regular distributor network. On the other hand, in Germany, you can buy a Milka pretty much anywhere and it is a good chocolate. Also, this is not really about Milka, it is about thousands of products across dozens of categories, so we can't just ignore this as an isolated, one-off issue. That is why people are pissed.

alt_f4 9y ago

> It depends where you shop It does not. You're not getting my point. You go to a Profi or Mega Image and you buy a Milka chocolate, it is the same Milka chocolate because there is only 1 distributor and this is the version of Milka chocolate that gets manufactured for Romania, Bulgaria, etc. And it's shit - it has less cocoa, it is 90g instead of 100g, it is filled with sugar substitutes. You go to Germany, to an EDEKA or a REWE, and you buy the same Milk chocolate - it has higher % cocoa, it is 100g, it contains milk, cocoa and sugar, no chemical substitutes. I can make the exact same point for soft drinks and pretty much all packaged goods. Hell, even things like laundry detergents are diluted compared to their western counterparts.

Mediterraneo10 9y ago
The whole point of going to a Mega Image is that you don’t have to buy a Milka. Instead, you can buy a Western European chocolate brand in its original Western European version, and for not significantly more money than that Milka would cost in a Profi or village shop. Similarly, at a Carrefour or Auchan you could buy the generic-label chocolate, which is just the French version with a Romanian ingredients sticker pasted on it, for the same price as a Milka. People in big cities have access to plenty of high-quality products if they just take advantage of that opportunity and ignore stuff like your Milka example. It is people in small towns and villages who are forced to buy shit food.
- alt_f4 9y ago
  Yeah and that is what people have been doing. But it's a pretty sad state of affairs when the best chocolate you can get is generic-label chocolate from Carrefour. Or, if you're lucky enough to live around one / can afford to shop at a place that imports foreign products from UK / Germany outside of the regular distributor network. On the other hand, in Germany, you can buy a Milka pretty much anywhere and it is a good chocolate. Also, this is not really about Milka, it is about thousands of products across dozens of categories, so we can't just ignore this as an isolated, one-off issue. That is why people are pissed.