The May Day holiday falling on May 8 brought a day off and also closed shops. A number of our residents therefore went to neighboring Poland again for shopping.
People went shopping in Poland.
| Video: Diary/Jaroslav Perdoch
There, they do not commemorate the end of World War II with a public holiday and supermarkets are open as usual. In the parking lots in front of them, vehicles with Moravian-Silesian registration plates predominated in the middle. “A person comes to a Polish parking lot and sees only our signs,” marveled the man, who apparently thought that he was the only one who had the idea to go to Poland on Wednesday.
The Biedronka chain in the village of Krzyżanowice near Hata in the Opava region was quite full and at times you had to wait for trolleys or settle for a basket. Food prices are not as favorable as they used to be, but larger purchases still pay off.
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However, the beer drinkers were very disappointed. They can only dream about our prices. “Golden Czech shops. You can buy bottled beer here for around fifteen crowns, cans for up to eighteen crowns. I recently bought a Golden Pheasant for 13 or 14 crowns and here it costs 5 zlotys, which is almost thirty crowns. And they also write that it’s on sale. Even tin beers are more expensive here,” lamented the older man to his wife. He was immediately intrigued by an unusual beer event that has no analogues in our country. Buy five local beers and get another three free. But in the end, after a “consultation” with his significant other, who did not share his enthusiasm, he resisted the offer.
