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“Very Disappointed”: Retailers Criticize Short Open Times; initial data show they are right
For two weeks, stores to combat the corona have had to close at 7 pm The industry criticizes that this leads to more people wanting to buy at the same time. She should be right about that.
Shopping continues to draw crowds: people queue in front of the Jelmoli department store in Zurich.
The queue in front of the cash register stretches through the store this Monday at a Zurich department store. “You can pay faster than you think,” an employee encourages customers. Without a doubt: business is booming. But since December 12 it has been buzzing a little less. Since then, all the stores have closed at 7 pm That’s what the Federal Council has ordered. Retailers criticized the decision: a uniform distribution of customers would be “enormously difficult”, criticized the Swiss Federation of Retailers. This creates queues and stresses protection concepts. In terms of health policy, the decision is “absolutely incomprehensible.”
