Greater country sales point
Großraumlandverkaufstelle was the name for rural retail and service centers of the consumer cooperative in the GDR .
According to a resolution of the SED trade conference in 1959, a comprehensive network of such modernly equipped centers was to improve the previously inadequate supply of consumer goods and services in rural areas by 1965 . Serious difficulties in obtaining the sophisticated equipment and a lack of construction capacities prevented the plans from being realized. In total, only three large area sales outlets were completed as pilot projects , of which the Oderland department store in Siedenbollentin was the most important.
source
- Annette Kaminsky: Kaufrausch - The history of the East German mail order companies . Weltbild-Verlag, 1998, ISBN 3-8289-0553-6 .
Web link
- Photo of the Kaufhalle Oderland from 1964 ( Memento from February 6, 2013 in the web archive archive.today )