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According to the ordinance, entry without quarantine to Baden-Württemberg is only allowed for valid reasons: professional, school, medical or family. Media: This puts an end to shopping tourism in Switzerland. However, all those who have ordered merchandise before December 22 can still enter today and tomorrow to collect them. This is particularly good news for parcel and butcher shops that have a lot of orders or packages from Swiss customers.
It was not until Tuesday night that it was certain that the requested merchandise could still be picked up. Consequently, border crossings with Germany have been obstructed since Tuesday afternoon when the new ordinance was made public. So traffic got stuck around 5.30pm in front of the border crossing to Bad Säckingen through the municipality of Stein in the direction of Münchwilen.
“This is bad news”
Many were drawn to Simon Kühn, owner of “Mypaketshop” on his trip to Bad Säckingen. On the high shelves of his parcel store he stores around 10,000 shipments, including many Christmas gifts, from Swiss customers, mainly from Fricktal. When it was made public in the early hours of yesterday afternoon that the border restrictions should take effect today, the flood of emails and phone calls to the parcel store ran its course. “Many were concerned that they would not receive their packages before Christmas,” Kühn said.
Because parcel pickup, according to initial assessments of the new regulation, was not a reason to allow entry, Kühn gathered all of his mini-workers last night to fill all the positions at the service counter with the order to face the last big crowd before Christmas. In fact, he planned to “keep the store open until the end”, but exit restrictions that apply from 8 pm in Baden-Württemberg prevented this.
German butcher receives 47 calls from Switzerland
For Rainer Stepanek, owner of the butcher shop of the same name in Badisch-Laufenburg, the journalist’s call on Tuesday afternoon came as a surprise, because at that time he was not yet informed about the plans of the Baden-Württemberg government. So he wondered why the answering machine showed him 47 numbers with the Swiss area code. After the phone call with the re-call with the journalist, he called all the Swiss customers who had asked him for meat to inform them about the new regulation.
