Turkmenistan is still experiencing a shortage of oil, flour and cigarettes.
Correspondents of “Chronicles of Turkmenistan” report that females lose shoes, scarves and purses when squeezing through queues for cheap flour in the central market of the city of Abadan (formerly Bezmein).
Queue for oil. August 2018
Local flour, which costs 1 manat per kilo, is still in short supply.It is supplied to state-run stores irregularly and no announcements about the next delivery are made.
For this reason people queue from early in the morning.However, when a truck with flour arrives, nobody bothers about respecting the queue.The strongest jump the queue and those who are a bit weaker are left behind, not only without the flour but also lose personal items including scarves, hats, bags and even footwear when jammed in the crowd.
Kazakhstan-produced flour is available in sufficient quantity and there are no queues for it. However, the price per kilo is 9 manats.
A similar situation occurs in the queue for “Akhal” vegetable oil and cigarettes.For instance, in the village of Yangala in Geokdepe etrap, when a local grocery store starts selling these products in short supply, men try to get into the store from a rear entrance by leaping over the fence.
Fights are common despite the fact that the village is small and the locals know each other.Consequently, the majority of women leave empty-handed.
Why present us with 60 manats for the International Women’s Day? They should have better presented us with a sack of flour and 10 liters of oil! a female wearing one shoe jokes