“Frankly, we expected worse. The summer sales went very well for us. For Lionel Remack, owner of Fourrures Remack, in the city center of Thionville, the 2021 summer sales are not synonymous with a drop in attendance, quite the contrary. Not everyone can say the same. “Usually, we have a loyal clientele from Luxembourg, and this summer, they did not come. This year, I find that the city center is quite deserted. For Marie-Claude Bébel, manager of the Terre de fées Weinberg boutique, the drop in attendance during the sales this year is clear.
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July was disappointing
And the private sales she organized earlier this year are not enough to make up for the shortfall.This year, the balance sheet is mixed. “50% of traders are satisfied and even worked better than last year, and 50% are not at all,” explains Carol Thil, president of the Thionville traders association. While traders overall performed well for the month of June, July was much more disappointing. The catastrophic weather of recent weeks has something to do with it. “Many traders have organized private sales upstream of the sales, with reductions of 20 to 40% so customers have done their shopping before the sales”, advance Carol Thil, to explain the drop in attendance observed by some traders.
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