The brand is not in crisis: Zara is present on all five continents and the founder Amancio Ortega, an 86-year-old Spaniard, is one of the ten richest men in the world. But “business is business” (business is business), and if a store is not profitable enough, you can even think about closing it.
And a possible closure of the iconic store in via XX Settembre next spring is being discussed today from 3 to 4.30 pm, in the middle of the pre-Christmas shopping period, in a trade union meeting convened in the store by Fisascat Cisl, as reported by the Courier Bergamo.
What would happen to the 25 employees, especially shop assistants? There is talk of a transfer hypothesis to the Oriocenter megastore, writes the Courier. The closure would have already been decided at high levels, while at the territorial level everything is silent. Hence the intervention of the union. Also because the group, in recent months, seems increasingly inclined to favor the digital sales dimension over the traditional one.
