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Nicole Graner
The escalators in the Galeria Kaufhof on Marienplatz are full. If you want to go up to the fifth floor, maybe to buy nice bed linen, you need a lot of patience. Because on the fourth weekend in Advent, people are crowding in from all sides. Long queues at the ticket offices, full car parks, full subways. According to the Munich entrepreneurial initiative City Partner, around 2.3 million pedestrians were out and about in Kaufinger Strasse from the first to the fourth Saturday in Advent. In comparison: In the Zeil in Frankfurt, one of the shopping streets with the highest turnover in Germany, there were 1.6 million. Inflation, energy crisis? The dealers are happy. Fears that people’s willingness to buy would wane have not materialized. A survey of traders.