Weekend fairs are organized by local authorities in almost all cities of Russia. This is done to the benefit of both agricultural producers, who sell their goods without overpaying for a place in the market, and buyers who have the opportunity to buy quality products cheaply. Manufacturers at these fairs do not pay for trade places, so additional fees are not included in the price of the goods.
Immediately, as soon as the experience of holding weekend fairs appeared, it was decided that their locations should be within walking distance. Therefore, they usually take place in the city center, next to the existing markets. To find out where the next weekend fair will take place in the locality where you live, you can call the department of trade of the city administration.
So, in Moscow, weekend fairs are held every week on the basis of the City Government Resolution No. 1067. In the central administrative district of the capital alone, more than 20 such trading platforms are constantly operating on Fridays and Saturdays.
Producers bring agricultural products for sale and sell them at prices almost one and a half times lower than in the markets. The capital fairs are attended not only by Russian, but also by Belarusian manufacturers, who, in addition to food products, bring here handicrafts, samples of folk crafts, seedlings and plants for summer cottages and landscape design.
At any fair, a wide range of confectionery and culinary products, beekeeping products, groceries, live, dried and smoked fish will be presented. Livestock breeders offer customers not only fresh meat at a low price, but also high quality and tasty sausages, cheeses, cottage cheese and milk.
Of course, the bulk of the merchandise presented at weekend fairs are vegetables, as well as seasonal berries and fruits. Here you can also buy canned products. You can buy all this without fear for the quality, it is checked by mobile veterinary and sanitary laboratories. Products of our own production and those that were taken for sale have all the necessary certificates.
Weekly weekend fairs are very popular among the population and help to solve the problem of the shortage of social stores, where pensioners buy food. In large cities, and, in particular, in Moscow, preferential categories of the population are provided with free coupons for essential products, which they can purchase at such a fair.
