Virtual market for discounted shopping for retirees: Labor Market

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Lerato Khumalo

In his statement, TÜED Chairman Kazım Ergün stated that the exorbitant price increases for products and services negatively affect low-income people, especially retirees.

Emphasizing that despite the regulations and inspections, exorbitant price increases resulting from greed and opportunism prevail in the market, Ergün pointed out that the large number of intermediaries in the chain through which a product reaches the consumer from the producer is also effective in this increase.

Ergün said:

“We took into account the call of our esteemed President to boycott the products and services with exorbitant price increases. We did not just boycott, but also offered an alternative to our retired members. We established a virtual market called ‘Labor Market’. We implemented this to offer retirees an alternative to exorbitant price increases. We bring together producers and consumers without intermediaries with the virtual market application. We procure clothing, detergent, cosmetics and technological products, especially food, directly from the producers and offer them to retirees at discounted prices. “TÜED member retirees can shop from 81 provinces in our virtual market without paying shipping fees.”

DEFINED APPLICATION DIRECTLY TO MEMBERS

Stating that they carried the consumption cooperative practices of the past to the digital platform, which is the need of the age, with the virtual market they established, Ergün said:

“The minimum pension is 14 thousand 469 liras. This is a very low figure. Millions of retirees have a hard time making ends meet. We offer opportunities to our retirees with discounted virtual markets accessed through the website or mobile phone application. TÜED members are directly registered to the application. They use their TR ID numbers as their usernames. “They can easily shop by typing the last 6 digits of their TR ID number as their password.”

Ergün stated that they are considering expanding the scope of the virtual market they established, and emphasized that the application, where retirees can sell their products, also includes social responsibility areas such as “Art Street” and “Career Basket”.