{"id":21266,"date":"2016-04-28T17:48:17","date_gmt":"2016-04-28T14:48:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/en.ldaily.ua\/?p=21266"},"modified":"2016-04-28T17:48:17","modified_gmt":"2016-04-28T14:48:17","slug":"epicenter-is-accused-of-unfair-competition-and-pressure-on-suppliers","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/ldaily.ua\/en\/news\/epicenter-is-accused-of-unfair-competition-and-pressure-on-suppliers\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Epicenter&#8221; is accused of unfair competition and pressure on suppliers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-21268 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/ldaily.ua\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/d31073d8f4c63c45eaff8e17085b8a33-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"&quot;Epicenter&quot; is accused of unfair competition and pressure on suppliers\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" title=\"\"><em>The owner of the largest online store Rozetka.ua, \u00a0Vladislav Chechetkin accused the retailer &#8220;Epicenter&#8221; which is developing a network of building supermarkets, in the non-competitive behavior and pressure on suppliers.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;Epicenter&#8221; for a long time, probably two years, requires the suppliers not to sell the goods in Rozetka.ua. This solicitation sounds like: if your product are in Rozetka.ua, they will not be on the\u00a0 \u00a0shelves of \u00a0&#8220;Epicenter&#8221;. From those suppliers that are larger and &#8220;Epicenter&#8221; can not crush them, they require the price for sellin lower than in Rozetka.ua, and to control prices in the Rozetka.ua&#8230; According to the &#8220;Epicenter&#8221; the prices in Rozetka.ua must be set not by us, but by &#8220;Epicenter&#8221;, &#8211; wrote Chechetkin on his page in Facebook.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">According to him, such behavior\u00a0 of &#8220;Epicenter&#8221; destroys the competition in the market.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The post was \u00a0written under the impression of the reaction of &#8220;Epicenter&#8221; on the recent publication of the launch of their online store 27.ua, the start of which was appointed in spring this year, but was postponed.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The online shop of &#8220;Epicenter&#8221; will sell appliances, electronics, building materials, sports goods, garden and children&#8217;s products. One of the deputy chairmen of &#8220;Epicenter K&#8221; supervises the launching of Internet shop. Almost the entire team for an Internet shop is made up of their own personnel, the project employs about 20 people, &#8211; says the professional edition Retail Community.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;When the competition is over, the consumer only will win, but now it is not an attempt to create competition, but to destroy it&#8221;, &#8211; said the owner of Rozetka.ua.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>The store Rozetka.ua, that \u00a0initially specializing in electronics and household appliances, gradually expanding its range of products. At the moment it presents sport\u2019s and children&#8217;s products, products for home and garden, as well as auto products, clothes, shoes and jewelry. Through the website Rozetka.ua you can also buy the airline and railway tickets.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">According to the Ukrainian Association of Direct Marketing, the share of e-commerce market of Rozetka.ua is reaching approximately 40%.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Source: delo.ua<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":21267,"menu_order":0,"template":"","newscat":[9],"newstag":[],"issues":[],"class_list":["post-21266","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","newscat-novosti"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ldaily.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/21266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ldaily.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ldaily.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ldaily.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ldaily.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"newscat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ldaily.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newscat?post=21266"},{"taxonomy":"newstag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ldaily.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newstag?post=21266"},{"taxonomy":"issues","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ldaily.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/issues?post=21266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}