Soviet Grocery Store 1986. And we think working in retail is bad now…

This is what a typical grocery store in Russia was like during communism. You couldn’t buy certain foods on certain days, and even when you were allowed too buy something – the store most likely didn’t have it. And this is not a depiction of a store in a rural part of Russia – this is a store in the capital city of Moscow. It can be imagined that rural stores were much worse