Cauliflower revolution

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Cauliflower price

Cauliflower revolution is the name of the spontaneous Lithuanian people revolution started by a dweller of the southwestern Lithuanian town of Vilkaviskis. She has bought the cauliflower at Maxima supermarket in Vilkaviskis, paying 3.49 euros ($3.90) for one head of cauliflower. She posted the photo on Facebook, and soon tens of thousands of Lithuanians shared the post, making it viral because of many talks on public earlier about rapidly rising prices and a very little growth of salaries compared after EURO introduction in Lithuania in 2015. Minimal wage per month in Lithuania is 350 euros in 2016 what makes the prices too high for many people. Spontaneous three-day boycott occurred, between May 10 and 12, of all four main supermarket chains in Lithuania that control 80% of food distribution in the country, Maxima,, Iki, Rimi, and Norfa.

Opinions

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Food store with few customers during boycot

Algirdas Butkevičius, Lithuania’s prime minister said that most of the goods are imported from the euro zone countries, and therefore, prices changes are due to reasons as market challenges, bad harvest and others, while Nerijus Maciulis, the chief economist at Swedbank said the escalation in cauliflower prices was caused by a seasonal hike in global demand. Maxima supermarket officials said that Cauliflower revolution was Russian creation, but that statment does not have any confirmation.

See also

• Civil Revolution