At Rimi stores, fresh food of Latvian origin accounts for 70% of the selection, but the picture varies in certain categories. For example, in the cheese, butter, margarine, and cottage cheese categories, local products currently account for slightly more than half of the selection, but in the milk category, only one-third.
Inese Pētersone, Director of the Category Department at Rimi Latvia, describes the situation:
“Latvian kefir producers are very strong; there, our covera...