Welcome to the wild world of the market where cherries are no longer just fruit, but a full-on drama! Imagine this: at the Pančevo market, cherries are sold piece by piece for 20 dinars. Yes, you read that right — not per kilogram, not by the handful, but per single cherry! Why? Because customers have gotten so cheeky that they just try the cherries without buying. And the sellers said: enough with free tastings!
It all started as a joke with pork cracklings sold piece by piece in winter, but now this practice has jumped to expensive cherries. The cherries are beautiful, ripe, and juicy, but the price is steep — a kilogram can cost up to 2000 dinars, and a single cherry goes for 20 dinars. At the Zrenjanin market, the situation is similar — stalls are half-empty because people can hardly afford this fruit.
The sellers are visibly annoyed. Blažica Janačković, one of the sellers, says they didn’t invent this practice but had to adopt it to protect their goods from those who just try and don’t buy. “No more mercy for such customers!” she says.
Another seller, Mirjana Marinković, explains that due to bad weather and high production costs, they had to reorganize their assortment and now mostly offer greenhouse vegetables, as it’s safer and less risky.
Is this the end of free samples at the market? Looks like it. Would you pay 20 dinars for a single cherry? Or will you keep just trying and running away? Drop your thoughts — maybe together we can figure out how to survive this market revolution!
