By Catherine Metag
Your customers are coming! It was unclear for a long time, now the shops are allowed to open on the 2nd Sunday in Advent. A comment from BZ editor Katharina Metag.
After tough negotiations and months of uncertainty, Berlin retail stores are allowed to open for Advent shopping this Sunday.
frankly: Before the pandemic and energy crisis, ten horses would not have dragged me to a store on Sundays before Christmas.
But now we already have to see in many places how entire shopping streets are deserted. Because we got used to convenient shopping on the internet during corona-related closures. And because, of course – the retail association also knows this – money isn’t always easy, even before the holidays, when it’s uncertain whether you’ll be able to pay your gas and electricity bills in the near future.
In my family, too, we give each other a little something at most this year. But I’ll definitely buy the book for my dad and the calendar for my mum from the dealer in the neighborhood. Exceptionally maybe even on Sunday.