the current year. However, during the year, the chain still updated several stores according to the new concept. During 2008, were opened 16 stores Fora. From July 25, 2011, to July 24, 2012, Fora issued 120 thousand registered, interest-bearing, guaranteed bonds with a nominal value of ₴1,000 for ₴120 million at 14% for 3 years for additional financing of programs and development Fora chain store. In 2012, Fora had 66 stores. In 2014, Fozzy Group opened 25 new stores Fora. In the first half of 2015, Fozzy Group opened 15 new stores Fora. In 2016, Fozzy Group sold 8 stores of the Fora chain with a total sales area of about 2,500 m2 to the local retailer Digma, which at the time of purchase had 21 stores with a total sales area of more than 7,000 m2, as the management of Fora made a strategic decision to develop and claim central regions of Ukraine. On May 11, 2017, the first premium delicacy store Fora under the Favore sign was opened in Kozyn. On September 30, Fora opened the largest supermarket of the chain in Hlevakha, the area of which reaches 740 m2. For the whole year, the chain was replenished with 15 stores and at the end of the year it had 245 stores. In 2018, chain of stores Fora was replenished with 12 new stores. At the beginning of April 2019, a new self-service service for members of the "Fora club" loyalty program — "Pocket cash register", was launched in test mode at the Fora store on Metrologichnaya Street in Kyiv, which made it possible to avoid queues at cash registers by self-scanning and paying for goods via mobile smartphone application yoCard. It was also announced that the service will be launched across the chain in the near future. In August of the same year, two years after the opening of the chain's largest supermarket in the Kyiv region, it was announced the opening of a new store in Vyshneve, the total area of which reaches 1,500 m2, which is twice the size of the store that opened in 2017. Later that month, it became known that Fora had released an original mobile application, which, among other things, allows contactless payment for purchases using a QR code, which the cashier must scan from the visitor's smartphone display. This was achieved thanks to the integration of the Masterpass digital wallet