When ciabatta rises in price: businessmen spoke about prices and robots

Crisis phenomena in various sectors of the Russian economy, taking place against the backdrop of a pandemic, have led to a serious transformation of many businesses. Some sectors were almost paralyzed by "anticoid" restrictions and a significant increase in resource prices; others, on the contrary, received a powerful impetus to development, especially in the field of automation and it.

RBC Petersburg continues to publish the opinions of participants and experts of the Heroes of the Year. Captains of the Free Market” about the important changes for business and its clients that have taken place this year and are expected in the next. In today's remarks, entrepreneurs talk about the imminent rise in prices and accelerated robotization as one of its results.

“If someone had told me five or six years ago that there would be bakeries on every corner in St. Petersburg, I would not have entered this area. The city now has the largest concentration of bakeries in the country. I honestly don't understand why people open them in such numbers. Payback periods are getting longer and profits are getting smaller. But if you are already on this train, then it is stupid to get off it. And you have to finish what you started. If we compare "Workshop 85" with a train, then the stop will mean a gradual default, after some time others may take this place. It is very strange for me why there is no such concentration of bakeries in Moscow; there are practically no large network establishments there. I hope that we will open there in a year.

“Now the city has the largest concentration of bakeries in the country. I sincerely do not understand why people open them in such numbers.