FAHRETTİN POYRAZ: AGRICULTURAL CREDIT COOPERATIVES BRING QUALITY TO THE MARKET
Turkey's Agricultural Credit Cooperatives are seeking to open a grocery chain consisting of 400-500 stores across the country, the group's general manager has announced. "By opening cooperative stores all over Turkey, we will be able to present consumers with the food products we buy from farmers directly," Fahrettin Poyraz told reporters on Saturday. Poyraz stated that the goal is to open a grocery store in order not to let the customer fall victim to the excessive price hikes which have been levied by other markets. "At the moment, we want to bring quality to the market with a series of regulations against a number of malicious producers who are trying to mortgage our future for the sake of profit. This is why we want to increase the number of grocery store alternatives, starting from the metropolitan cities. But we don't plan on having a store on every street corner," Poyraz added. The group has announced that their main objective is to open some 400...