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Social market turns 20: “Not everyone wanted it”

Michaela Landauer (right) and her staff always try to offer a varied range of services.(Bild: Andreas Fischer)

Michaela Landauer has managed the first "Tyrolean Social Market" since 2005. She talks about political rejection, bad goods and openly says what she thinks about the welfare state and why she would cut some services.  

Finally, a burst water pipe in the store. Just what Michaela Landauer, manager of the first Tyrolean social market for 20 years, needed shortly before her retirement. As if her job wasn't demanding enough as it was. Landauer has seen on a daily basis what some people don't want to believe: poverty and living on the breadline is a reality in Tyrol too.