Sales of illegal shoes are booming in Russia

A few months before the long-awaited introduction of the compulsory tagging of all shoes in with RFID chips in Russia, the flow of counterfeit footwear is skyrocketing in the country. Natalia Demidova, director of the Russian National Shoe Union, told the Russian Retail Week conference in Moscow that their market ...

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