comment by
Kia Vahland
Nostalgia alone is not an idea that points to the future. Everyone who has campaigned with a lot of money and enthusiasm for the preservation of all Galeria department stores is experiencing this painfully: employees, politicians, municipalities. 52 centers will have to close, which has a lot to do with mismanagement, but also with a lack of courage to start over. Thousands of shop assistants and other employees who become unemployed are left behind. And often unrenovated colossuses in prime locations that nobody would probably build like this today: as uninviting, partly windowless strongholds in which a lot should fit in: goods, goods and goods.