15.04.2021 06:18 11.992
Jumble of rules and compulsory testing: This is how shopping works under Corona conditions!
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By Hermann Tydecks
Dresden – Danger! If you want to buy clothes, shoes or jewelry in stores again, you should hurry up.
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Maria Sandig (32) was able to spontaneously book an appointment for Primark on site. © Thomas Türpe
“Click & Meet” shopping, which was only allowed last week, is already on the brink again.
The federal government is planning tougher lockdown rules and in the Free State the hospital bed occupancy rate is approaching capacity limits.
How shopping works and what needs to be considered – a report from the city center.
“Hello! Have you booked an appointment?” – This is how numerous dealers greet their customers along Prager Strasse. Maria Sandig (32) doesn’t have one, stands in front of the Primark in the Centrum-Galerie.
She spontaneously books her appointment on the Internet with her smartphone and is then admitted. She was lucky before:
“I had an appointment for Vodafone, but I didn’t do a corona test. They sent me to the pharmacy next door, where I could do it quickly,” says the woman from Dresden.
In most shops, customers can get an appointment on site at short notice. Yet almost everywhere there is a yawning emptiness.
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Shopping only with an appointment and a negative corona test! Luna (26) and Sarra Limoudda (27, right) have booked in advance on the Internet. © Thomas Türpe
Jumble of rules in Dresden’s shops
TAG24 reporter Hermann Tydecks (38) in conversation with senior citizen Inge Minkewitz (81) on Prager Strasse. © Thomas Türpe
“Shopping in time slots does not trigger a feeling of leisure time, but becomes a stress factor,” says customer Bianca Werner (28). Sarra Limoudda (27) has prepared according to general staff, booked appointments in advance in the test center and several shops, tried to do all of them.
“It feels like a marathon,” she says. Senior Inge Minkewitz (81), unlike in the past, only goes where it can be done without an appointment or test.
The confusion of rules was aggravating: Sports outfitter JD (maximum 15 minutes shopping time) does not accept self-disclosure, only certified negative tests.
“It’s part of company policy, it also serves security,” says supervisor Jason Sienkiewicz (21). Customers even only come to the sports shop opposite with a certificate that was also issued on the day of shopping.
Center manager Jürgen Wolf (59): “The retailers try to adhere to the not always easy-to-understand rules that the Free State issues as best they can.”
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Jürgen Wolf (59) is the manager of the Centrum-Galerie. © Holm Helis
Fear of the next lockdown is great
JD supervisor Jason Sienkiewicz (21) checks the documents. © Thomas Türpe
Hairdresser branch manager Anja Böhme (39): “We are happy that we are allowed to open. But after the introduction of mandatory testing, even fewer customers come. Nobody can work profitably this way.”
Boss Kirstin Weise (39) opens her Sonnenklar TV travel agency Nevertheless: “We want to encourage customers and employees, to signal that the light will not go out anytime soon.”
According to IHK spokesman Lars Fiehler (50), dealers want “unbureaucratic opening options”.
But that is a long way off, knows Dresden’s city manager Friederike Wachtel (31): “The dealers are now trembling about the next lockdown.”
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Cover photo: Image montage: Thomas Türpe
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