Two large and modern wholesale markets were opened towards the end of Mat near Warsaw and at the beginning of June in L dY. Other facilities of this type will be opened by the end of this year in Gdansk and Lublin. The other sixteen wholesale markets already operating including those in Wroclaw, Poznan, Kielce, Tarn w, Rzesz w, Legnica, Koszalin and Bialystok are also being systematically expanded and extending their activity with new branches and merchandise groups. So far more than 370 million z3oties have been spent for investments in this branch of trade. The money comes from the state budget, which allocated 15 million z3oties for this purpose, and from assistance funds of the European Union. The owners of the new wholesale outlets are commercial companies, whose shareholders are producers of industrial goods and ever more often associations of agricultural producers.
Wholesale markets are indispensable in modern trade.
Their proper functioning makes it possible to reduce the trading costs of middlemen and to smooth out fluctuations in the supply of goods. It also acts to raise the quality standards of industrial and agricultural products directed to the retail market.