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Billa, Merkur, Time, Penny
“A range restriction on the food trade would be illegal because the Minister of Health can, according to the COVID-19 Measures Act, order the closure of stores. However, it does not have authorization to restrict the range of those that are open.” argue Spar, Hofer, and Lidl. Furthermore, a range restriction on the food trade is unconstitutional because it would be both a competitive measure and a restriction of competition. “The regulator (in this case the Minister of Health) has no competence to restrict competition,” concluded the traders.
Rewe (Billa, Merkur, Adeg, Penny) has a relatively low proportion of non-food items compared to other supermarkets.
“We do not want to make sales at the expense of dealers who have to re-close in the second lockdown,” Rewe International and Billa Merkur Austria’s board of directors, Marcel Haraszti, said in a broadcast. One will “naturally offer only the typical product groups of the food trade.” “We also ask our colleagues in the grocery trade to follow this path,” Haraszti said in the direction of the competition.
The weeks before Christmas are the busiest times of the year for retailers. “And it can’t be that we as grocery retailers are taking sales away from our colleagues in the industry that they can no longer make up for in the holiday season,” said the head of Rewe International.
