Generator crisis in shops near the borders with Ukraine and the Republic of Moldova. “In half an hour everything was given”
Left without electricity, drinking water and heat, Ukrainians come to Romania to buy generators. That led to a real crisis of such devices on our market, especially in the cities close to the border with Ukraine. Few high-end stores still have generators, and traders say demand has increased massively in the past month.
– “I’m not at all anymore, yes.“
– “Ukrainians bought…“
Store employee: “Last night seven or eight came to me, in half an hour all seven or eight left”.
Employee Magazine: “Suceava, Iași, Piatra Neamț, Bacău, you can’t find anything anymore“.
The situation is repeated in most Romanian star stores, which came from Ukraine and the Republic of Moldova.
– “We went to buy generators, from here in Romania. There was no electricity for 2 days. It’s an hour, it’s not half a day.“
– “It is not current. I have a generator, from time to time I put it on and we have some light and we can not charge the phones, the refrigerator..”
Store employee: “Last week they got married. In one week, two gave everything“.
Reporter: “And who bought them?”
Store employee: “The Ukrainians, the Moldavians“.
Generator suppliers say they are struggling to keep up with demand, which has increased tenfold over last year.
Teodor Șeitan, director of a generator manufacturing company: “Lately we have registered an explosion in the demand for generators, which generally comes from Ukraine and the Republic of Moldova. We have basically sold all the stock we have and if we had 10 times as many generators we would have sold them all.
On the Romanian market, at the moment, all suppliers have zero stocks“.
Ana-Cristina Micu, Digi24 journalist: 35 generators, that’s all that was left in the warehouse of a producer and supplier who normally in this activity should have had at least 1,000. However, even the 35 generators are no longer available, because they are already ready to go to honor the order.
The price of a generator starts from 700 lei and can reach up to 5,000 lei.
Publisher: AC