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The reactions provoked in the commercial world by the government’s decision to operate retail only through the click away method
The suspension of its operation is maintained for the festive period Retail, except for the receipt of goods only with click away for tomorrow Sunday, December 13 to Thursday, January 7 due to courier overload.
That is, it will allow retail with a pre-purchase and receipt process from outside the store. The order will be made through electronic store, either by phone, and payment will be made electronically or via POS, outside the store. The order will be received by a person at a specified time and with an electronic receipt.
HELLAS
Click away – Hardalias: 10 minutes waiting in stores, then okay
Click away – Hardalias: 10 minutes waiting in stores, then okay
The queue outside the shops Only up to 9 people will be allowed and the distance between clients must be at least 2 meters. In a company that is, in control, within it with a client, an administrative fine will be imposed – from 2,000 to 50,000 euros depending on the m2. – and at the same time a suspension of operation of 15 to 90 days will be imposed.
The service Only businesses that have access to the road will be allowed to click., so not in closed shopping centers and businesses that are co-located in large buildings, and should have, if requested by the auditing teams, a detailed list of scheduled deliveries of the day.
It is noted that the companies that will operate with the click of a distance They are intended to be closed by state order and will normally receive all benefits and guarantees.
Supermarket
This Sunday will be open optionally Supermarket, while companies will be able to operate with the click away system. As the Minister of Development and Investments said yesterday «Adonis Georgiades answering a relevant question: “Once the click away service is started in all the other stores, it will also be launched in the supermarkets.”
Wholesale
Especially for its functionality wholesale trade, due to complaints of irregular operation, it was decided that physical presence in these stores would be allowed only for professionals related to construction activities, while the rest of the professionals will make their purchases using the click away method.
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Hairdressers and bookstores
From Monday, December 14, 2020, the Barber Shop – hairdressers and bookstores, with the possibility of extended hours from 7 in the morning to 10 at night. Attendance at hairdressers will be carried out only by appointment, in order to avoid any possibility of programming, but also with strict compliance with health protocols. Please note that manicure and pedicure services are not allowed.
the bookstores, 1,784 in total, will operate with a maximum of 4 customers in stores of up to 100 m2. or 1 client per 15 m2. for stores of more than 100 square meters. In addition to hairdressers and barbers, KTEO will also operate from services.
Reactions in the commercial world
Reactions that provoked in the commercial world the decision of the government to operate retail only with its method click away. For the vast majority of companies, that do not have an online store, the holiday billing is lost permanently and irrevocably, according to the assessment of the Hellenic Confederation of Commerce and Entrepreneurship and “there will be no replacement of losses through telephone orders, since no customer pays if they do not see what what buy”.
Your president Athens Chamber of Commerce Stavros Kafounis describes the measure as “complementary that cannot replace the integrated functioning of the market” and considers thatonly “10% of companies will be able to implement the measure”, while estimated to be inapplicable in the thousands of neighborhood stores.
Its president agrees with this assessment Athens Chamber of Commerce Ioannis Chatzitheodosiou, who asked the government to “protect those companies that will not be able to operate with this system.”
At the same wavelength and ΓΣΕΒΕΕ states that only large commercial companies and a small percentage of small commercial companies have an electronic store, as a result of which all the sales volume of the holiday season is concentrated and leads to the coffers of large retail companies, while “The survival of thousands of small and medium-sized enterprises is left to commercial enterprises, without the government announcing any substantial measures of support.”
THE ΕΣΕΕ, underlined in a statement the president of George Karanikas estimates that, “an unequal two-speed market is created, whose operation is clearly not complying with the rules of fair competition: on the one hand, thousands are closed, for two consecutive months, mainly small and medium-sized neighborhood commercial stores, whose owners face immediate survival problems and their jobs are “in the air.” On the other side are the powerful few of the trade, who are facilitated by the click away to serve customers Those that the courier companies cannot reach on time, as well as even the latest generation e-shops they have, “fell”, precisely because of the increased volume of orders they accept.
For his part, the president of the Central Union of Chambers and EVEA Konstantinos Michalos pointed out that, yes, the continuation of the blockade cannot be avoided, the government is called upon to protect the companies affected.
In this context, he continues, he must move with dynamism and take the initiative, so that both at Greek and European level, the so-called debt forgiveness, allowing states to cancel debts to the state on companies affected by the coronavirus.
