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Baden-Württemberg stops shopping tourism: since Wednesday, the Swiss in the border cantons no longer benefit from the 24-hour rule and must be quarantined. When the new regulation was made public on Tuesday afternoon, the Swiss raided parcel stores and shops; they wanted to collect the products they had ordered. Consequently, traffic in the region was jammed at night. It took two hours from Frick to Bad Säckingen and vice versa, reports an AZ parcel picker.
What no one knew at the time: The federal state provided an exception clause in the regulation: all those who had ordered their goods before December 22 could pick them up yesterday and can still pick them up today.
“You can’t talk to the boss. Hell is happening here, ”said the clerk of the Schneider butcher shop, which operates three branches in Badisch Rheinfelden and Schwörstadt, by phone. The employee found that the regulation was misleading and that everyone at the butcher was relieved that Swiss customers could still pick up their orders. However, the orders were canceled on December 23.
Maik Gregl from Rheinfelder PaketStopGo parcel store was surprised that the regulation came into force so quickly. Initially, the exception was not clear to him and therefore all Swiss customers were telephoned on 22 December. As a result, the store was invaded, but some customers did not arrive until Wednesday. Gregl says that many customers were angry about the recipe, some even had tears in their eyes. “Of course you have to take Corona seriously, but this coming and going makes people mentally ill,” criticizes German politics.
Martin Schmidt, CEO of Schmidt’s Markets, is also relieved by the exception. The trade association informed him that morning. And since then, Schmidt’s Markets employees have been delivering ordered products to customers.
Ordnungsamt verified customers
Schmidt does not believe that the exemption was used as a free ticket for shopping tourism. Because: Bad Säckinger Ordnungsamt employees have been checking customers in the market parking lot since early in the morning. What does the general merchant think of the new quarantine rules? “Of course it is difficult when the Swiss clientele is lacking, but we understand this and want to contribute to the general good,” says Martin Schmidt. On average, 30 percent of its clients come from Switzerland.
Short-term nature makes it difficult, says Schmidt. Because in the markets of Bad Säckinger there are also too many products that have not been ordered in the warehouse. Therefore, a lot of distribution had to be made to the other locations to have them suspend their orders and use the products from Bad Säckingen. “We don’t want to throw anything away.”
Master butcher Wolfgang Ebner from Waldshut-Tiengen describes the current developments as simply “catastrophic”. As soon as news of the entry ban actually broke on Tuesday, many customers from across the Rhine canceled their pre-orders for Christmas days. Ebner: “For us this means big losses.” Because he couldn’t sell the meat one by one like that. If anything, often only at significantly lower prices.
