The first trader has announced prices in euros. He is from Blagoevgrad and is known as the king of pies in the city. It turns out that his snacks are not only not going to get more expensive, they may even get cheaper. Details about the changeover to the euro will certainly emerge, and we talked about them with the businessman from Blagoevgrad, Dimitar Bakalov, who has been involved in bakery and snacks for years. He expressed a curious concern related to the exchange in eurocents, since according to him it will be difficult to return euros to eurocents at first, since hardly all sites will have enough coins.
NOVA team visited Dimitar Bakalov's diner. He now predicts that in the first months after the adoption of the euro, people will pay in round sums and will not have enough euro cents in them to give exact money. And so the possibility creeps in that the pie in euros will become cheaper than the pie in levs.
"We will round – instead of 2 BGN and 1 euro cent, it will be 2 BGN buns, without the one euro cent. Which will always be to the detriment of the companies, not only mine, but all the companies that will be doing the rounding. It should be so, because we won't be able - especially at the beginning, to have the banks give all the establishments eurocents", claims Dimitar Bakalov, the owner of an eatery.
Of course, not all snacks will be like the pie. If the cheese now costs BGN 1.90, then it will most likely become not 97 euro cents, but directly 1 euro. Bakalov does not see any other problems with the adoption of the euro so far. Whose damage will it be, mathematics will have the say.
Source: www.focus-news.net