Sekaar’s Shopping Centre promotion raffle - 22.01.07

The first three lucky customers of the Sekaars Shopping Centre promotion raffle held last December recently received their prizes from Ms Naida Pillay at the supermarkets Les Cannelles branch. Like all the other winners of the raffle, the first three are long standing customers of the supermarket. Ms Mida Volcy of Baie Lazare, the star prize winner of a return ticket to Singapore, has been a customer since 1998. While expressing her joy at being the lucky winner among so many other clients, she says she enjoys doing her shopping at the end of each month at the supermarket because it is spacious to move between the shelves and you get all the things you need in one shopping spree and I also enjoy the free service they provide to take you home afterwards.

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EURO-OFFICE TO ADVISE BULGARIANS ON EU SHOPPING

An euro-office would opened in Bulgaria in mid-2007 to help Bulgarians in the purchase of goods from the EU, head of the Consumer Protection Committee Damyan Lazarov said. A net of such offices existed in almost all EU member states, mediapool.bg said. The offices aimed at informing consumers about their rights on the common European market. Bulgarian National Consumer Association head Bogomil Nikolov said that the euro-offices would be most useful to people living in the border regions near Romania and Greece, who could purchase inexpensive goods in the two countries. EU Commissioner for Consumer Protection Meglena Kouneva said that the euro-offices could inspect goods and services offered for sale by foreign web sites. Kouneva also said that she expected a boom of online trade in Bulgaria and it was extremely important for Bulgarians to know their rights when purchasing indirectly.

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Shopping problems in Bulgaria

Some METRO Cash and Carry customers in Bulgaria are trying to obtain their own personal customer cards, without success. The Association for European Integration and Human Rights (AEIHR), whose offices are in Brussels, Strasbourg and Plovdiv, contacted the Commission for Protection against Discrimination (CPD) after Bulgarian students twice requested their own customer cards to shop in the chain. The two students were refused cards because they didnt have certain professions, like doctors, professors or lawyers, according to AEIHR lawyer Ginka Chernicherska. Refusing services to people on the basis of their employment may be construed as discrimination. METRO usually issues cards to companies, but sometimes gives cards to private persons, including architects, lawyers, translators, tax consultants, agents, according to the companys website.

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