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According to JKU retail investigators, the first blockage caused a loss in sales of 3.8 billion euros and the second forced breakdown cost 2.2 billion euros in revenue. According to estimates, national retailers will have lost nearly € 8 billion in sales from the three closures.
The trade association expects revenue losses of up to 10 billion euros. “The three hard locks hit trade to the core,” the trade association’s managing director, Rainer Will, told the APA. For the new year, Will would like the government to have “more security in planning.”
Criticism of the freest
The trade association is critical of the massive corona tests in January as a prerequisite for easing. People with a negative test result can visit all stores and service providers, as well as restaurants and hotels starting on January 18, without a test, you must wait one more week until January 25.
“You get used to doing business ‘freestyle,'” says Will. In a recent poll, 42 percent of respondents wanted to be “released”: the third crown closure for retail, with the exception of supermarkets, pharmacies and tobacconists, would take almost a month, criticized the managing director of the association commercial.
