Mifoli market near Novosela in Vlora operates only once a week. There are many traders who come from Berat, Fieri and Vlora to sell food products, but also household items and clothing. The conditions in which they are marketed, mainly fruits, vegetables and dairy by-products, do not even meet the minimum hygiene conditions.

Those citizens who buy in this market, show that the conditions are like in the Middle Ages. Investments in this area have not been made for years, while the images clearly speak of the deplorable conditions.

“Prices have increased excessively; I don’t live here for myself, I’m away, but the prices are bad. The market, as a condition, well, they have adjusted it a little, it was worse; they worked a little”, says the citizen.

“These are terrible conditions; here are a lot of incomes, they should do it with better conditions; do it with covered shelves, but not like this. The prices… if you ask me, as a pensioner who receives 150 thousand lek, they are a scandal; we can’t make it. We always brag about the kids we have outside; they help us”, said the citizen.

“I come from Greece; prices are the same as there;prices are the same as there, as here. We cannot afford them; with the money we get there, we can afford them, but with the lek they get here in Albania, 150-200, they can’t afford it”, said an elderly woman.

The few investments in 20 years for the old market at the Mifoli bridge are the filling of the foundation as a preventive measure for the exit of the Vjosa river from its bed and the asphalting of the entrance to the market.