date:Mar 11, 2014
t participants noted ever-increasing pressure on the price of supplied fruit from retail chains. As the role and influence of retail chains in the overall market picture grows, the trends set by the retailers have larger impacts. Several Russian importers mentioned that in many cases such pressure resulted in a lower quality and a worse assortment of fruit on the retail shelves.
In discussions with FruitNews.ru, a number of Russian importers named the drop in quality of Moroccan clementines as