(T)Euro

I'm rather pissed. Slovenia got new currency on 1st January - first of new member states that was ready to adopt Euro. We all thought the good things would prevail- Euro should be great currency for all of us who like to travel, not to mention economy would have one less mean of loosing money.
Of course, we were warned from various sources that prices might raise. But we're no Germany- you know- there's only this much ordinary people might be able to cope with. And besides- even if some shops / services would round their prices up to 10 cents- that shouldn't mean that everybody would do it (or raise prices even more). Even our financial minister said he didn't expect prices to go up. They put law in place that no price could go up between 31st december and 1st january. Just in case- Consumer protection agency was ready. And did we keep our prices?
NO!!! Why not? Because we live in f***** capitalist age, when shop and service owners use every chance to squeeze some more money out of customers. Prices really didn't change over night on 1st January. In most places, they raised them before that!!! And so just that irony is bigger, some even lowered those same prices a bit just before New Years and than advertised them!!! Of course, Consumer protection agency compiled a black list of shops and services who were most bad. But as things are lately, they might just as well start compiling a list of shops/services which didn't raise their prices- it might be shorter.
You know- in most cases we, consumers do have a choice where we take our bussiness to. But lately it looks just as if they all started cartels- they ALL raise their prices. In some cases it's subtile- going up just a few percent. But in some cases it's like they think we (consumer) (I'm sorry I have to express myself like this) shit money.
Just an example. Yesterday we ordered pizza. The brochure with prices we had was from the start of december. At that time pizza we ordered was priced at 6,89 €. So, imagine my surprise when the bill came at 7,60 €!!! That's almost 1 € difference - 10% rise!!! I don't know where they're doing their shopping, but f*** me, if cheese is 10% more expensive from the start of December!!! And what's worse- we already stopped order pizza from 2 pizza deliveries because they raised their prices, so it seems we just might be out of deliveries soon. Solution? Well- I hope all right minded citizens of Slovenia will realize this is leading nowhere, and we have to do something about it. If it's come this far- let's boycott pizzas altogether (anyone who knows me know how huge sacrifice this is for me). Let's show those bustards where their thirst for our wallets is leading them. I just hope that majority of citizens are not sheep who would just suffer in silence! Every revolution starts with small steps!!! OK- I know not everything is that bad. Most shops (those which are bigger and are watched more closely) didn't raise their prices, or at least only marginally. It's food deliveries / restaurants / public services / pubs that were most eager to drain our wallets....
Just the closing thought-

Let's support honest bussiness which didn't & won't raise prices, and we'll all win!!!