Meet the Czech Multi-Millionaire Who Saves Big by Buying Discounted Butter in Poland

Pavel Dvořák worked as a taxi driver in Prague for several years. We should emphasize that we are always in control. So he had a license and passed the topography exams again. He then applied for a job as a truck driver, but due to two back surgeries, he had to stop taking longer routes.

He traveled through Stříbro in West Bohemia, where he made a living as a clockmaker, until he left for East Bohemia. It is currently found, as he says, in Náchod and around Dvor Králové nad Labem. He was captivated here not only by the flat landscape, but also by a lover who was a generation younger. “It gives me strength, I like it a lot,” he told our editors.

We spoke to Pavel Dvořák already on the first day of November, when he described his experience buying food from Poland. He spends most of the week collecting requests from several dozen people. When everything is marked down, she goes shopping to our northern neighbors. According to his own words, he drives regularly, he likes it. He visits several shops.

“And I always give everything, because you have to trust someone,” he said proudly. Then he takes a long puff of smoke from his cigarette and begins to take stock.

Butter and brandy

“I’ve been going to Poland since 2017. I don’t know where the motivation came from. Every person from East Bohemia that I met here told me that they go to Poland all the time. These people went there right after the revolution and nobody from the region can say that they were not at the markets in Kladsk, for example,” he said, referring to a spa town famous Kudowa-Zdroj.

Over time, however, the desire for cheap jeans or VHS tapes was replaced by hunger and thirst.

“I was surprised myself. You might expect me to go there for the socially weak, but that’s not true at all, listen to that,” said Pavel Dvořák as he reached for another cigarette. “Bad habit, I know ,” he replied to our view. “It is not a weak social class. I also drive people who have millions. He himself told me that there is a surplus on his million dollars in crowns in his bank account, so he’s a millionaire,” the former taxi driver laughs.

And immediately follows. “He wanted cheap butter that went through. (pause) Everyone wants to save money. If you can have a beer for nine crowns in Poland, why should you pay thirty crowns here? When butter here costs eighty kroner and in Lidl the Poles have it for thirty, so what are you doing? If it is before the expiration date, which you can only find out on the spot, it is even cheaper. Besides, my purchases are tens of kilos. This is not about going for two butter and milk. I have a van and it is full to the brim. I can feed thirty families. They are mostly common grocery and drug store foods. The wealthiest like to treat themselves to more expensive alcohol. You can save a lot on it too,” explains Pavel Dvořák.

No cigarettes

It is said that his business works largely because of the silent mail.

“I’m going for one, he will tell the neighbor. I have a few more sessions until Christmas, then I have to rest as I am going for another CT scan with my back. They take me seriously, I’m afraid of third plate action. Recently, the doctor said something about scraping the vertebrae, but I didn’t really notice,” concluded the sixty-year-old man.

As he said at the end, shopping in Poland is certainly nothing special, the number of customers he handles is growing every month and it is said that people appreciate his every penny “I don’t just carry cartons of cigarettes, I don’t want tangles with the police, I really enjoyed being a taxi driver in Prague and that was enough for me,” he said goodbye.