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€ 1.9 billion gross: This loss of sales, two Linz scientists say, will be the third blockage in retail. “Body hugging service providers” are also hit hard.
7:26 pm, December 18, 2020
Less than three weeks after the end of the second lockdown, traders: except for supermarkets and pharmacies – as well as body hugging service providers, such as hairdressers and beauticians, will be closed again from December 27 to January 18, 2021. WKÖ Commercial President Rainer trefelik he described the blockage of the third crown as a “strong blow”.
The interest representative sees the “great success of our efforts” in the fact that it is now possible to pick up the products ordered in the store (“Click and collect”). Traders were not allowed to do this on the first and second locks. “For commerce, this way of selling products is a small ray of hope to give value to the industry,” Trefelik said in a broadcast on Friday night.
The trade association is dismayed by the renewed forced breakup. “For our industry, the third hard lock is the worst case scenario. December is by far the most important month of the business year with the highest turnover, “says the CEO of Handelsverband. Rainer will in a transmission. Per week of lockdown, a loss of sales in the non-food trade of around 900 million euros. First, the international online giants without a permanent establishment in Austria, who hardly pay taxes in this country and contribute little to the common good, Will criticized. “Amazon’s financing program remains uncontrolled.”
Distributors want 80 percent revenue replacement
The trade association demands sufficient help from the government. “The population was assured that no one would be left behind in the crisis. All merchants affected by the closure must have one by the closing week of December 80 percent revenue replacement get, between branches can no longer be done, as the arguments are now omitted, “so the rep the lockdown continues well into the new year is completely unacceptable,” Will criticized. The Minister of Finance Gernot Blümel (ÖVP) will present Corona’s additional financial aid at a press conference tomorrow.
WKÖ Commercial President Trefelik demands clearer rules for the policy’s product range restrictions, so supermarkets cannot sell children’s toys, sporting goods, garden products and electronics in a difficult lockdown. “In a new lockdown, it is necessary to regulate more clearly what products can be sold by commercial companies that are allowed to open their stores.“, so the commercial president.” Grocery distributors and pharmacies should only sell the products for everyday use. “
Fixed retail: 140 million are lost every day
In the second blockade there was a regulation to restrict the scope. Spar, Hofer, Lidl and the Müller pharmacy chain described the restriction on the product range as unconstitutional and illegal and did not change their range. “It is difficult to see why some grocery and drug retailers, for example, offer home appliances, while electricity retailers have to keep their stores closed,” Trefelik said.
The third lockdown will further exacerbate the economic situation in fixed retail. Business researchers Ernst Gittenberger and Christoph Teller from the Johannes Kepler University of Linz (JKU) await for the period December 27 to 31 one Daily loss of turnover in stationary retail trade amounting to 140 million gross daily.. For the shopping days closed in January, there would be a loss of sales of 100 million per day, since the level of sales in January is significantly lower than in December, according to scientists.
In total, the third Corona lock will lose sales for just under 1,900 million euros gross Cause for trade. For comparison: According to the JKU retail researchers, the first crash caused a loss of sales in retail of 3.8 billion euros and the second breakout cost 2.2 billion euros in revenue. National retailers are estimated to have lost nearly € 8 billion in sales from the three closures.
