Talk:Intershop

Spelling of Beryozka
I changed the spelling of the USSR's similar store from "Berezka" to "Beryozka" so that it would conform with the Wikipedia conventions on the romanization of Russian. This was a relatively minor change as, amazingly, no article has yet been written on Beryozki. BenA 19:28, 1 September 2007 (UTC)

How could DDR citizens shop there
'' East Germans could not legally exchange East German marks for hard currency. The only legal ways for East Germans to acquire hard currency were either gifts from relatives living in the West or wages earned for work in Western countries.''

Surely the majority of East Germans lacked either the generous western relatives, the Western job (wasnt working in the West itself illegal for an East German citizen not to mention the little matter of the wall) or the job in an intershop which would have been necessary to acquire sufficent currency (or forum cheques) to buy anything in an Intershop ? 213.40.122.111 (talk) 19:52, 12 September 2008 (UTC)
 * For the above-mentioned reasons, the majority of East German citizens did not shop in Intershops. --92.206.27.73 (talk) 07:51, 28 April 2013 (UTC)

There's something mentioned in the article, as the only remark for comperable retails in the former eastern block, " An unintended consequence was that ordinary East Germans had some insight into the selection of goods available in the West, which they could then compare with the rather limited offerings available in their own country.[1]" That matter was in EVERY country of the Warsaw Pact in this way happened! Please, take it as a real concern!