“Retail Disaster”
Gastronomy, retail and hotel associations are disappointed by the corona decision by the federal and state governments. Many industries with forcibly closed companies criticized a continued lack of prospects on Thursday.
“The results of the Corona summit are a disaster for retailers”, so HDE– Chief Executive Officer Stefan Genth. In addition, the possibility of shopping by prior appointment is not a lifeline for most stores. Because, as a rule, personnel and operating costs are higher than sales.
Hospitality “maximum disappointed”
“Nobody in the industry can blame it if they are sued now”said the manager of the hotel and restaurant association Dehoga Westphalia, Renate Dölling, the WDR. That there is an opening strategy for many areas, but “Not for dining out, we don’t understand at all”.
The hospitality industry is “maximum disappointed”said Dolling. Of the Dehoga North Rhine had already announced the day before that it would consider a lawsuit if the restrictions on hotels and restaurants were to continue.
Risk of shopping tourism
And how should the gradual opening of shops, as decided by the federal and state governments, work? The chief executive of the German Association of Cities and Towns, Gerd Landsberg, expressed doubts on the WDR5 “Morgenecho”.
“If you have a circle with an incidence value of 50 and the neighboring circle has 150, then there is a risk that this type of tourism will develop”, says Landsberg. “Then I’ll just go shopping in the neighboring district, and then you have the movement that you don’t really want.”
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