Russia’s Promsvyazbank (PSB) has launched the PSB Market online store and the first takeaway outlet in Lugansk.
The opening ceremony was attended by first deputy chairperson of the Lugansk People’s Republic government Yury Govtvin, PSB Lugansk Director Dmitry Chaikin, PSB Non-Banking Services Department Head Alexey Nazarov and PSB Market Development Center Director Alexander Filatov.
“LPR residents have got another point of comfort in the services sector,” Govtvin said.
Nazarov said that online shoppers who use PSB services would be entitled to pay up to 100 percent of the price of product with saved points. “We want to integrate a loyalty program by yearend,” he said.
Answering the Lugansk Media Center's question about delivery costs, Filatov said that PSB Market planned to make it free of charge as in other Russian regions.
PSB market is currently the only online store in the LPR at which residents can purchase goods without intermediaries. The Bank plans to launch more takeaway outlets in the near future.
“It’s the first shop; we hope there’ll be four or five of them in Lugansk in the next few months. We expect that some 20 takeaway shops will open in the Republic by yearend. “Dozens of thousand merchants are there including about 100 large ones; we'd be happy to see Lugansk representatives among our merchants,” Filatov said.
PSB Market is expected to launch takeaway outlets in Krasnodon, Molodogvardeisk and Stakhanov in the near future.
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Promsvyazbank is the first Russian bank which offered a package of basic services to LPR residents. The range of services will include preferential loans, mortgage and insurance in the near future.
Pursuant to presidential decree, the LPR State Bank was restructured to a limited liability company for subsequent acquisition by Promsvyazbank.
The Lugansk People’s Republic acceded to Russia on September 30, 2022 following the unification referendum. *i*ie
