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After 2010, informal groups organised bartering networks, in the context of which they exchanged goods and services for vouchers or online credits. In 2012, there were at least 22 such social solidarity groups in 17 cities. In some cases, participants exchanged vouchers or on line credit for other goods, creating thus what is termed a “Local Exchange Trading System”, which existed for a while in a few cities. The most well-known was in Volos, where the local currency was known as the “TEM” and a specific bartering street market existed.

Another celebrated case is the “potato movement” (Henley 2012b). Typically, farmers sell their products to middlemen who then transfer the agricultural produce to cities and sell it to supermarkets and grocery stores, inflating thus the original price of the product. In the wake of the crisis potato producers in the Northern Greek town of Katerini decided to sell directly to consumers, [74] leaving out the middlemen. Producers travelled to city centres to sell their products or planned to receive orders directly from consumers.