Santa can shop for toys in fewer and fewer places, but he does see more pastry chefs

The sum of corona, inflation and cutthroat competition means that many retailers are throwing in the towel. That is the bleak prospect that experts paint – after ten years of impoverishment on the shopping street. The number of toy stores alone, according to figures from the Chamber of Commerce that this site has analyzed, has almost halved since 2013.

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