No Middlemen Cost Cutting Networks in Greece
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"These are mainly citizen networks focusing on fair transactions between producers and consumers. In particular, these networks aim to cut costs for consumers by organising and distributing products - mainly agricultural - without the involvement of intermediaries.
• The Potato Movement: A grassroots socio-agriculture movement which consists of Greek farmers selling potatoes and other goods such as onions, rice, flour etc. directly to the public (without the involvement of intermediaries). With many Greeks now living on the breadline, and with prices still impossibly high, the movement is a clever and for many, a vital way to cut costs.
• Inipirouni (http://www.inipirouni.gr/): Solidarity movement focusing on the fair transactions between producers and consumers. They collaborate with producers of organic goods and they print on the packaging of their products the maximum retail selling price in order to protect the Greek consumers from intermediaries.
• Omotrapezoi (http://omotrapezoi.blogspot.gr/): A group of citizens in Thessaloniki aiming to cut costs for Greek consumers by groups purchasing. Every weekend "Omotrapezoi" organise massive orders and buy several products (vegetables, flour, etc., directly from producers), without the involvement of intermediaries. The distribution of the goods to the consumers is done personally by the group.
• Argonauts (http://agronaftes.blogspot.gr/): Network without intermediaries for organic products in the region of Peloponnesus.
• Anosi- volunteers (http://www.anwsi.gr/): Network without intermediaries in the Region of Volos."
(source: Informal Citizen Networks in Greece )