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Between January 18 and 24, customers must be able to submit a negative Corona test to visit stores.
The first and second blockade already cost 6,000 million euros
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.”
Handel is critical 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.
Starting tomorrow, only a few stores will open again
Due to the third closure of the crown, the shutters of shops, hairdressers and other body-friendly services such as beauticians, masseurs or nail salons must remain closed from tomorrow, December 26, until January 17 inclusive. As in spring and from mid-November to early December, only a few stores can be open between 6 a.m. and 7 p.m., including supermarkets, pharmacy chains, and tobacconists. Electronics, fashion and footwear, furniture and sports retailers are closing.
Click and collect allowed for the first time
On the other hand, the client areas of non-bodily service companies (eg banks, car and bicycle workshops, insurance companies, cleaning companies, tailors) may have more open. All food trade, as well as the health sector (in addition to pharmacies, for example, also the sale of medical products) can remain open. For the first time in crown lock, digital and phone pre-ordering and product pickup are allowed in all stores.
(Those: APA)
