Employees of the Shamsa supermarket, located at 4 Rybatskoy Slavy Boulevard in Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, are disposing of expired food products by dumping them into a pit directly beneath the windows of adjacent residential buildings. Local residents traced a persistent foul odor in their apartments to this makeshift dump over several days. Observations from a nearby balcony confirmed that the pit contains discarded food waste bearing Shamsa store labels, which is currently decomposing, emitting a strong odor, and attracting flies.
A resident named Darya and her neighbors at 10/1 50-letiya Oktyabrya Avenue are preparing to file formal complaints with the federal consumer protection agency – Rospotrebnadzor – and the local prosecutor’s office. The community demands the immediate removal of the unauthorized landfill and the penalization of the responsible parties for creating the sanitary hazard.
The management of the Shamsa supermarket chain – the largest retail network in the Kamchatka region – has not issued any comments regarding the incident. This local sanitary violation follows a recent ruling by the Kamchatka Territory Arbitration Court, which imposed a fine on another regional grocery store, Semeynaya Korzinka, for trading in expired merchandise.