Weird cult of Żabka More and more in different places on…
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Weird cult of Żabka
More and more in different places on the internet I see cult of żabka stores among foreigners. Like to the point in which they think that eating hot-dog there is some kind of staple of visit in Poland and that we (Poles) somehow „love it” and „love the conveniance of it”.
From what I understand it is just misunderstanding of the „success” of this store chain (measured by number of store opened), that is based mostly on quite predatory buissness strategy, that is putting a lot of financial liability on individual store owners (stores are not owned by żabka itself, they are runned by „independent” owners that „franchise” żabka) and opening a lot of different stores close to each other, owned by different individual store owners, that are neverthenless really „workers” more than „businessman” - their whole operation need to be in accordance with central żabka authority, they have to buy stuff only from żabka central and they are liable on a lot of different internal fines. The same goes to actual shop workers, that are mostly working on unfair (and frankly illegal) so called „garbage” contracts for minimal wage, without any right to really bargain or care about themselves (by establishing trade union), becuase they are not officially one big group of żabka workers, but thousands of different groups of workers working for small buissnessmens. Of course its also exploiting many different tax and gov help created for small business.
I also see that foreigners don’t really get that **żabka is mostly quite expensive store,** that base its success additionally on circumventing our law concerning closing stores on sunday - as officially each store is runned by independent store owner, they can be open on sunday.
Here is question to other Poles, so we can hear their opinion - what is your take on all all this weird żabka-love image created among foreigners? Do you also find it strange? Or am I really the odd man out with this?
#local
More and more in different places on the internet I see cult of żabka stores among foreigners. Like to the point in which they think that eating hot-dog there is some kind of staple of visit in Poland and that we (Poles) somehow „love it” and „love the conveniance of it”.
From what I understand it is just misunderstanding of the „success” of this store chain (measured by number of store opened), that is based mostly on quite predatory buissness strategy, that is putting a lot of financial liability on individual store owners (stores are not owned by żabka itself, they are runned by „independent” owners that „franchise” żabka) and opening a lot of different stores close to each other, owned by different individual store owners, that are neverthenless really „workers” more than „businessman” - their whole operation need to be in accordance with central żabka authority, they have to buy stuff only from żabka central and they are liable on a lot of different internal fines. The same goes to actual shop workers, that are mostly working on unfair (and frankly illegal) so called „garbage” contracts for minimal wage, without any right to really bargain or care about themselves (by establishing trade union), becuase they are not officially one big group of żabka workers, but thousands of different groups of workers working for small buissnessmens. Of course its also exploiting many different tax and gov help created for small business.
I also see that foreigners don’t really get that **żabka is mostly quite expensive store,** that base its success additionally on circumventing our law concerning closing stores on sunday - as officially each store is runned by independent store owner, they can be open on sunday.
Here is question to other Poles, so we can hear their opinion - what is your take on all all this weird żabka-love image created among foreigners? Do you also find it strange? Or am I really the odd man out with this?
#local
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