Sky — Local services in Riga

These stores used to be a little more expensive than others (10-20%), but then you had a relaxed shopping experience (because there aren't that many customers and there's almost never a longer queue at the cashiers), friendly service and some fairly decent quality in-store food items. There are also some "Western Europe" goods that other chains do not offer.

Then, I guess, someone decided that being just a little more expensive is stupid and basically doubling the prices of all the same products you can find in other stores is the way to go. Looks like the other stores in this complex follow the same idea.

Shop here if you like being taxed for feeling posh, REALLY like your personal space or desperately need Western European products,...

80% imported (mainly Germany) but added 300% in consumer price.

I disagree on quality as i know German low price "non-name" brands which are not a guarantee for quality at all.

Examples (in brackets midfle Europe price) 1kg bio apples (Demeter) 11€ (5€) Belsun metal can peaches 4,59€(1,99€) 1 kg nicola coffee from Portugal 29,9€ (13-16€) Rummo pasta kg 7€ (1,5-2€) Vino Verde 6,8€ (1,5-3€) Gut&Günstig (Edeka own low price brand) Cornichos 4,59€ (1,2-1,5€) Toiletries (all german) added 100-150%

Local beers add 1€/bottle to local market

I really understand their concept: a nice story and just "ripp off people" who dont care but I wonder that this can...

Management of the shop is trying to make customers life harder - first removing shopping baskets, second putting shopping strollers outside the shop, than removing smaller shopping strollers, pushing customers to use only big&inconvenient strollers, to “manipulate” to buy more. And now changing the approach to old-school, when you have to put 1 or 2 EUR coins to unlock the shopping strollers. Luck of respect and customer centric approach! Interestingly, that not all the Sky chain implements this approach. So seems these are just idiotic initiatives of the...