Pandemic and Christmas sales
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Trade association fears “absolute disaster”
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Reality in Baden-Württemberg: In the neighboring country, like here in Ulm, customers have to prove that they have been vaccinated, recovered or tested.
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Discussions about a 2-G rule have apparently led to a significant drop in sales in some shops in Bavaria. How’s the retail business going so shortly before Christmas?
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Andreas Glas, Matthias Köpf, Johann Osel and Christian Sebald, Munich
Tuesday was the worst day in a long time, says Johannes Huber. Even if people were still in the mood for shopping now, in the fourth wave of the corona pandemic: Even greater than the fear of infection is the uncertainty due to “regulations that seem to change every day”. Huber is the managing director of the Garhammer fashion house, which takes up a considerable part of the town center in Waldkirchen in Lower Bavaria and attracts people from a large area. On Tuesday, says Huber, there was talk of 2G on the radio, and customers promptly stayed away.
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