The main thing about the ban on Sunday trading in Poland. Polish shoe stores - where to buy in Bialystok What retail chains plan to do

For many Belarusians, Polish shoes are associated with the concepts of "quality" and "fair price". And this is no coincidence. In Poland, manufacturers and sellers care about their reputation, do not overcharge and honestly inform buyers about the quality. In addition, they must comply with EU standards.

How much do shoes cost in Poland

The country has shops for expensive and budget shoes. Some focus on wealthy customers, while others at an affordable price offer fashionable models that are designed for one season. Polish shoe manufacturers are constantly updating their range of models for men and women, children and teenagers.

Polish price aggregators allow you to navigate the prices:

These sites contain offers for the sale of Polish shoes from many manufacturers, retail chains and online stores. A convenient interface allows you to sort models by purpose, size, brand.

For example, CENEO.pl reported that shoe stores in Białystok offer women's high leather boots from the Nik factory for PLN 459 ($108), while cute artificial leather boots from Arturo cost only PLN 79 ($19). The situation is the same with prices for men's and children's models: leather ones are more expensive than those made of textiles and leatherette.

Popular brands of Polish shoes

It will be easier to search for boots, shoes or clogs on the price aggregator if you know the leaders of the Polish shoe industry. Let's take a look at some of the most popular factories, find out where fashionable Polish women's boots are made, whose men's boots are considered the highest quality, and who has children's orthopedic models in their assortment.

Gino Rossi

Domeno

Rylko

Demar

Badura

BADURA - produces comfortable shoes for every day and limited editions of models for special occasions. Women love her exclusive collections of shoes, ballet shoes, moccasins.

Shoe supermarkets of budget shoes in Poland

Retail chains CCC and Deichmann specialize in budget products. Their stores offer different brands of Polish shoes. The assortment of stores is distinguished by a large number of models for men, women and children. All products are sold at affordable prices. low cost due to the use of inexpensive materials. In most cases, it is intended for one season.

Affordable prices allow every season to walk in albeit inexpensive, but new fashionable shoes. Along with budget brands, CCC and Deichmann offer models from Adidas, KAPPA, Fila, Elefanten, Lasock, and Nike.

CCC and Deichmann stores can be found at:

• In Biala Podlaska at ;
• In Bialystok in .

When buying shoes in any Polish store, you need to find out about the possibility of processing documents for returning BAT, as well as keep its packaging and receipts (especially from sales) until the Polish-Belarusian border is crossed. This will be needed to calculate the cost of transported goods by customs officers.

In Bialystok, there is one fairly good online store that sells everything you need for bathrooms. Here, the price and quality of the products offered are quite well combined. The store has all the necessary certificates and can present them to the buyer if necessary.

Having made a purchase in the KATI store, you can receive your goods within a week (sometimes there are cases when the shipment of purchased products is delayed due to lack of stock). Delivery is completely free and is carried out using a courier service.

The company was founded in 2004 and is actively developing to this day, a fairly large number of buyers speak positively about the online store. Here they give great attention the quality of the products offered, while price policy remains very low.

What can you buy at the Sklep Kati store in Bialystok

To a greater extent, the store sells sanitary products, such a product policy was originally conceived, but over time the product expanded and now it is already possible to purchase kitchen and heating equipment. In the KATI online store you can buy:

• large household appliances;
• batteries;
• radiators of heating systems;
• bathroom furniture;
• kitchen and ventilation hoods;
• water heaters;
• pumps;
• traps and connections;
• bathtubs and sinks.

The range is constantly updated, and new models appear. household appliances.

Promotions, discounts, bonuses

The address

The store is located in the city of Bialystok at the address:

• ul. Piaskowa 46 lok. one.

Real estate - solid monuments of architecture, quiet streets - in granite tiles, neighbors - millionaires, movie and sports stars, artists, sculptors and presidents. But this place is not for a measured and calm life, but quite the opposite - we are talking about the "city of the dead" in the capital of Argentina, Buenos Aires. Recoleta is one of the most beautiful and famous cemeteries in the world and an architectural monument protected by the state and UNESCO. This is both an active necropolis and a popular tourist route at the same time.

Maxim Lemos, professional cameraman and director, traveled, probably, all countries Latin America and now works as a guide and organizer of trips. On his website he posted detailed description cemeteries of Recoleta and interesting stories associated with this place.

Recoleta does not look like a cemetery, in the usual sense for us. Rather, it is a small town, with narrow and wide alleys, majestic crypt houses (there are more than 6400 of them), incredibly beautiful chapels and sculptures. This is one of the most aristocratic and ancient cemeteries, which can be put on a par with the famous "Monumental de Staglieno" in Genoa and "Père Lachaise" in Paris.

“The funeral traditions of South America are wild and creepy,” Maxim begins the “excursion”. - The deceased is buried in a good coffin in a normal beautiful crypt. But if these are not rich people, then they do not bury him there forever, since you have to pay for the rent of a beautiful crypt. Therefore, after 3-4 years, the deceased is usually reburied. Why 3-4? So that the corpse has enough time to decompose so that it can be placed more compactly, already now in a truly eternal refuge. It all looks like this. 3 years after the first burial in the cemetery, near the crypt, the relatives of the deceased gather. Cemetery workers pull the coffin out of the crypt. Then they open it and, to the sobs of relatives “mother-mother ...” or “grandmother-grandmother”, they shift the half-decomposed corpse from a beautiful coffin into a black plastic bag. The sack is solemnly taken to another part of the cemetery, and stuffed into one of the small holes in the large wall. Then the hole is walled up, and the plate is glued. When I found out about all this, the hair on my head began to stir.

The crypts are quite close to each other, so the area of ​​​​the cemetery is quite small.

Here is Recoleta from a helicopter. It can be seen that it is located in the middle of a large residential area. Moreover, the square in front of the cemetery is the center of life in this area, there are many restaurants and bars.

The cemetery is active, so right at the entrance there are carts ready to transport coffins. Above, above the main gate, a bell. It is called when a person is buried.

Between 1910 and 1930, Argentina was one of the richest countries in the world. And during these times, there was an unspoken competition between the Argentine nobility, who would build a more luxurious crypt for their family. The Argentinean capitalists did not spare money, the best European architects were hired, the most expensive materials were brought from Europe. It was in those years that the cemetery acquired such a look.

Who tried as best he could. For example, here is a crypt in the form of a Roman column.

And this one is in the form of a sea grotto.

Of course, the question begs itself, but what about the smell? After all, if you look closely, in each crypt there are coffins, the doors of the crypts are forged bars with or without glass ... There must be a smell! In fact, of course, there is no putrid smell in the cemetery. The secret is in the device of the coffin - it is made of metal and hermetically sealed. And it is simply sheathed with wood on the outside.

Those coffins that are visible in the crypts are just the tip of the iceberg. The main one is in the basement. A small ladder usually leads to it. Let's look into one of the cellars under this crypt. Only one basement floor is visible here, there is another one below it, and sometimes there are three floors down. Thus, in these crypts lie entire generations. And there are still a lot of places.

Each crypt belongs to a specific family. And usually it is not customary to write the names of those who are buried there on the crypt. Write only the name of the head of the family, for example: Julian Garcia and family. They usually do not write any dates either, it is not customary to hang out photographs of the deceased.

This is how you can come and in one fell swoop visit not only grandparents, but also great- and even great-great-grandfathers ... But Argentines VERY rarely visit cemeteries. The whole mission of planting flowers, caring for, cleaning and maintaining the crypts is given to the cemetery attendants. The owners just pay them money for it.

There are crypts without any information at all. Ida and that's it! What is Ida, what is Ida? For a couple of years I walked under Ida and did not know about its existence, until one tourist noticed her, accidentally raising his head.

Skull and crossbones are quite common in crypts. This does not mean that a pirate is buried here, and this is not someone's inappropriate joke. This is Catholicism. Religion dictates that they decorate the crypts in this way.

By the way, here is another secret of this cemetery: cobwebs and, accordingly, spiders are here great amount(look at the photos). But no flies! What do spiders eat?

There are special guided tours of this cemetery in Spanish. And the guides tell stories to match this cemetery: by no means boring and scientific, but exciting and exciting - like Latin American TV shows. For example: “... this rich lord quarreled with his wife and they did not talk for 30 years. Therefore, a tombstone was erected for them with humor. On the most luxurious sculptural composition, they sit with their backs to each other ... "

Maxim Lemos also has true stories about some of the guests of this cemetery.

For example, one 19-year-old girl was buried in a family crypt. But after a while, it seemed to visitors that indistinct sounds were coming from the bowels of the crypt. It was not clear whether the sounds were coming from the crypt or from somewhere else. The relatives were notified just in case, and it was decided to open the coffin with the girl.

They opened her up and found her dead, but in an unnatural position, and the lid of the coffin was scratched, and there was a tree under her nails. It turned out that the girl was buried alive. And then the girl's parents ordered to erect a monument to the girl in the form of her coming out of the crypt. And at the cemetery since then they began to use the fashionable method in those days in Europe for such cases. A rope was tied to the hand of the corpse, which led outside and was fixed to the bell. To be able to notify everyone that he is alive.

But this crypt is also remarkable. Buried here is a young Argentine woman, the daughter of very wealthy parents of Italian origin. She died on her honeymoon. The hotel in Austria where she stayed with her husband was covered by an avalanche. She was 26 years old, and it happened in 1970. And the parents of Liliana (that was the name of the girl) ordered this luxurious crypt in the Gothic style. In those days, it was still possible to buy land and build new crypts. At the foot in Italian is a father's verse dedicated to the death of his daughter. It keeps saying “why?” all the time. A few years later, when the monument was ready, the girl's beloved dog died. And she was also buried in this crypt, and the sculptor added a dog to the girl.

The guides, who need something to entertain their audience, began to say that if you rub your dog's nose, you will definitely be lucky. People believe and rub...

The husband's body was never found in that Austrian hotel. And since then, the same man has appeared in the cemetery, who regularly, for many years, brings flowers to Liliana's grave ...

And this is the highest crypt in the cemetery. And its owners managed to please everyone not only in terms of height, but also in terms of sense of humor, combining two incompatible religious symbols on this crypt: the Jewish menorah and the Christian cross.

But this is the second largest and the first cost crypt. It is made from the most expensive materials. Suffice it to say that the roof of the dome is lined with real gold from the inside. The crypt is huge, and even larger are its underground rooms.

Federico Leloir, the Argentine Nobel laureate in biochemistry, is buried here. He died in 1987. But such a luxurious crypt was not built on Nobel Prize(the scientist spent it on research), and it was built much earlier. In general, he lived extremely modestly. This crypt is family, Federico had rich relatives who were engaged in the insurance business.

Several Argentine presidents are buried here. Here is President Quintana, depicted lying down.

And this is another president, Julio Argentino Roca. Just 50 years before Hitler, he without too much sentimentality announced that it was necessary to liberate the southern lands and annex them to Argentina. "Liberate" meant to destroy all local Indians. This was done. The Indians were destroyed, some of them were transported to central Argentina as slaves, and their lands, Patagonia, were annexed to Argentina. Since then, Roca has become a national hero and is considered to be one to this day. There are streets named after him, his portraits are printed on the most popular, 100-peso bill. Times were like that, and what is now called genocide, racism and Nazism, 100 years ago was the norm.

Some crypts are in a very abandoned state. For example, if all relatives have died. But it is still impossible to take away the crypt: private property. Destroying or touching is also impossible. But when it becomes clear that the owners of the crypt will no longer appear (for example, if it has been ownerless for 15 years), the cemetery administration chooses such crypts as warehouses for building materials and other equipment.

In one of the places of the cemetery, the caretakers set up a small household plot.

Among the crypts, a toilet was modestly crammed.

The cemetery is famous for its cats.

In our culture, it is customary to bring plastic wreaths at funerals with the inscriptions “from friends”, “from colleagues”. Then, a few days later, these wreaths are taken to a landfill. It's impractical! Therefore, in Argentina, wreaths are made of iron and welded to the crypt forever. Anyone can mark on the grave of a friend. And if a person was important, then there are a lot of iron wreaths and commemorative plaques on his crypt.

All crypts in the cemetery are private. And the owners can dispose of as they please. Friends can also be buried there. They can rent or even sell. Prices for crypts in this cemetery start at 50 thousand dollars for the most modest and can reach 300-500 thousand for a more respectable one. That is, the prices are comparable to the prices for apartments in Buenos Aires: here a 2-3-room apartment costs from 50-200 thousand dollars and up to 500 thousand in the most prestigious area. For example, here - the crypt is for sale.

Until 2003, it was still possible to purchase land on Recoleta and build a new crypt. Since 2003, the cemetery has become an architectural monument not only of Argentinean, but also of world importance. Here, not only any buildings are prohibited, it is also forbidden to modify or rebuild ready-made crypts. You can only restore the old ones, and even then after a lot of permits and solely for the purpose of giving the original appearance.

Some crypts and tombstones are being restored. For example, this one. True, this is being done with the Argentine working rhythm, there is a hanger, the restorers have not been seen for 2 months.

The Recoleta area itself is very prestigious. And the residents of these houses (across the road from the cemetery) do not bother at all that their windows overlook the cemetery. On the contrary, people consider themselves the chosen ones of fate - well, how to live in Recoleta!

However, Maxim Lemoks himself believes that Recoleta is “a monument to wild, unusual funeral traditions for us and a competition of inappropriate show-offs: “who is cooler and richer” and “who took more marble, a tombstone higher, and a monument more exclusive and larger.”

The ban on Sunday trading was initiated by Polish trade unions. They believe that trade workers, like all citizens, have the right to relax with their families on the seventh day of the week and attend church services.

The bill submitted by the "Committee of Legislative Initiative" was seriously changed. The version adopted by the Seimas and signed by Andrzej Duda provides for a transitional period with a gradual increase in non-working Sundays until 2020, and also has a lot of exceptions. The punishment for working on Sundays has also been mitigated. Now this is not a prison sentence for the seller and even the buyer, but only a fine of 100 thousand zlotys for the owner of the outlet.

What non-working Sundays will be in 2018?

According to the Law in 2018, Poles are allowed to trade on the first and last Sunday of the month. The ban will take effect from March. In February outlets Poland can work as usual. Shops will also be closed on public holidays if they fall on any Sunday.

Monthly trading ban schedule:

• March 11, 18
• April 1 (Easter), 8, 15, 22
• May 13, 20 (Pentecost)
• June 10, 17
• July 8, 15, 22
• August 12, 19
• September 9, 16, 23
• October 14, 21
• November 11, 18 (Independence Day)
• December 9

What will happen next?

Trading in Poland in 2019 will be allowed only on the last Sunday of the month. From 2020, all Sundays will be days off. Workers will remain one Sunday before Easter and two before Christmas, as well as the last in January, April, June and August.

Where is the law allowed to trade?

The original version proposed to ban Sunday trading for everyone, including online stores. After the debate, it was decided to leave the virtual trading platforms and some areas of trade. The Law provides for 32 exceptions.

Trading on any day in Poland, for example, is allowed:

• bakeries;
• confectionery;
• newsagents;
• post offices;
• souvenir shops;
• ice cream parlors;
• tobacco shops;
• shops at railway stations, airports;
• retail outlets in garrisons and penitentiaries;
• on the wholesale markets agricultural products;
• at points of sale of agricultural machinery and spare parts for it from June 1 to September 30.

It is also allowed to trade on any day if the owner of the store, who works on his own behalf and at his own expense, will serve the buyers.

Will shopping malls and galleries be open?

Whether to close the gallery or the shopping center completely, its management decides. The law only prohibits the sale of goods on Sunday, so restaurants, cinemas, entertainment centers can work.

How will trading change on Saturday?

Anticipating the influx of buyers before the "forbidden" Sunday, some retail chains considering the possibility of extending the working day on Saturday. So Biedronka supermarkets, according to finanse.wp.pl, will be open until 23-45 Saturday evening.

What are the retailers planning to do?

Traders are not going to part with the profits from Sunday trading. Gas stations are going to increase the area of ​​their stores and expand the range. It is also known about the plans of some supermarkets of household appliances and electronics on Sundays to work in showroom mode. That is potential buyer comes, looks, chooses in a stationary store, and pays through its online version.

Everyone knows that Poland is very profitable to go shopping. But what exactly makes sense to buy in this attractive country for tourists? What do enterprising guests from neighboring countries buy in Polish supermarkets?

TOP profitable purchases

• In the first place - household appliances and electronics. In the hypermarkets of Polish cities, the prices for these goods are significantly lower, and the possibility of VAT refund makes them even more attractive.
• In second place are goods for repair. In specialized stores, buyers are just waiting for a huge selection of high-quality finishing materials, accessories, tools. Windows, doors, floor coverings and much more are brought from here.
• The third place in the TOP list is occupied by auto parts and auto accessories.
• Next group popular products- clothing and footwear. Fashionistas and women of fashion know that in Polish stores you can dress fashionably and stylishly at very attractive prices.
• Children's products are also on this list. This includes baby food, clothes, hygiene products, strollers, toys, furniture, school supplies.
• Many tourists come to Poland for medicines, which can also be purchased here at attractive prices. It is noteworthy that pharmacies accept prescriptions issued in Belarusian clinics.
• Household chemicals and cosmetics can always be found in the bags of tourists, even if they came for completely different goods.
• Food products are also brought home by almost all foreign buyers. It is difficult to resist and not to buy delicious meat products and sweets in reserve. Tea, coffee and alcoholic drinks in local supermarkets are inexpensive, so guests of the country rarely resist the temptation.

Secrets of profitable shopping in Poland

Experts in Polish shopping recommend preparing for the trip in advance. Visit major websites shopping centers and hypermarkets, compare prices in various stores, get acquainted with profitable promotions, current discounts and motivational programs.

Our site contains addresses of shopping centers and hypermarkets, and other cities that are attractive for bargain shopping. Research their locations in advance, see how you can get to them, pay attention to the opening hours and weekends of hypermarkets.

Please note that it is allowed to transport no more than 50 kg of cargo across the border for free, while bulky goods must weigh no more than 35 kg. Everything else will have to pay customs duty.

In addition, there are a number of other restrictions, according to which it is not allowed to transport more than one piece of household appliances and other goods from a certain list, as well as to make no more than three large purchases per visit to the country.