Angelė, Who Manages 24 Village Stores: There Are some that Are Unprofitable, but We Are Not Closing Them for the Sake of the People

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“People are the most important thing,” says Angelė Andrikonienė, who has been working in trade for more than half a century and has headed the Ukmergė District Consumer Cooperative for two decades. Although the cooperative she leads operates 24 stores, the interviewee is convinced that their value is not created by turnover, but by people – employees and customers, for whom the village store is often not only a place for shopping, but also a pla…