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"No More Expired Products!": New activists will hold a campaign against expired goods in stores across Almaty!

The movement Жаңа адамдар regularly conducts raids on grocery stores in Almaty to identify expired products. The scale of this issue is alarming. Even large chain supermarkets allow expired goods to be sold. Meanwhile, the owners of small neighborhood stores often do not perceive this as a problem at all. Why does this happen? Typically, when a person finds expired items in a store, they do not confront the seller, nor do they report it to regulatory authorities or the police. Instead, they simply place the spoiled item back on the shelf or walk past it.
"No More Expired Products!": New activists will hold a campaign against expired goods in stores across Almaty!

What exactly is "selling expired products"? It's about whether to inform the seller of a hidden defect or not. If you report the defect — you get one outcome, if you don’t — you get another. And that one is more beneficial. Unfortunately, this principle applies not only to the sale of spoiled goods.

In school, a student claims they forgot their homework notebook at home. In university, a student copies answers from a cheat sheet during an exam. A car owner rolls back the odometer to sell their "baby" faster. This pattern is everywhere.

"Expired" is not a choice between writing off outdated goods and quietly selling them. It's about what matters more to us: achieving a lesser result but remaining an honest person, or deceiving others for greater gain? Expired products on store shelves are merely the visible manifestation of a deeper issue of expired thinking.

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On November 30th in Almaty, Жаңа адамдар invites everyone who refuses to accept expired thinking to the event "No to Expired Goods!".

If you have encountered the problem of expiration yourself — prepare an exposing poster with the name and address of the store. Alternatively, share a personal "expired" story — a situation where you acted dishonestly or concealed something for personal gain.

Expired products will only disappear from our store shelves when every resident of Kazakhstan declares: "My dignity is worth more than the profit from deceit. My integrity is far more valuable than the earnings gained through lies and deception".

November 30th. Жаңа адамдар campus at 7 Kokinaki Street. Join us if you are ready to be honest with yourself and your country!

Additionally, more details can be found on this website and on the Жаңа адамдар Instagram page.