What’s a shopping center? And what is the difference, in a Covid key, with a “large sales area”? The employees of the Roman store de La Rinascente, in the central via del Tritone, remained open on the weekend despite the Dpcm of 3 November imposed the closing to all “businesses present in shopping centers and markets”, and therefore stormed by the orphans of shopping of all the Lazio. For areas in yellow zone, in fact, the provision signed on November 3 by Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte, in article 1, point ff, reads: “In holidays and days before holidays the commercial establishments in the shopping centers and markets are closed, with the exception of pharmacies, parapharmacies, health centers, food outlets, tobacconists and newsstands “. But the workers of the shops who have rented the spaces of the prestigious building in the heart of the capital, they heard their employers explain that “we are not a shopping center, it is a different Nace code”.
Definition of “department stores” – By making a Chamber of Commerce registration of the La Rinascente group, we learn that the company that refers to Roman outlets (Tritone and Fiume) is classified with code 47.19.1, that is “department stores”, which is the only possible category relating to group 47.19 “retail trade in other non-specialized shops”. On the site www.codiceateco.it is defined as follows: “Activities of the department stores that offer a wide range of products, including articles of clothing, furniture, appliances, hardware, cosmetics, jewelry, toys, sporting goods, etc. retail establishment operating in the non-food sector, which has one sales area exceeding 400 square meters and at least five distinct departments (in addition to the possible annexed food department) each of which is intended for the sale of items belonging to different product sectors and for the most part of large consumption “.
The jungle of openings in Rome – The first weekend of restrictions for the Capitoline shopping centers ended in no particular order. La Rinascente, as mentioned, remained open. Closed, however, the Castel Romano outlet (on via Pontina) where – just like in via del Tritone – there are shops that refer to major brands who have rented shops, but this time in some sort of citadel outdoors. I remained open Ikea outlets of Porta di Roma and Anagnina, while it closed the Porta di Roma shopping center, in the north quadrant of the city. The competitor Euroma2Instead, it was open with different hours for each shop as required by the government provision (green light to the hypermarket, shutters lowered for activities not authorized by the ministry). On their website they write: “Today we are open from 9 to 21, special hours in compliance with the dpcm of 3.11.2020 and the order of the Ministry of Health of 04.11.2020 “. TO Tor Bella Monaca, on the other hand, the owner of a shop in the “Le Torri” shopping center was pinched by the local police and the carabinieri while trying to let customers in retro despite having kept the shutters lowered on the street side: 400 euro fine and forced closure for 5 days.
The CGIL: “Immediately table in the region for clarity” – The jungle of openings does not like the unions, which threaten the strike. “The bureaucratic ploy and social reasons do not stop the virus and do not protect workers ”, he warns Alessandra Pelliccia, representative of the Filcams Cgil, which for days, together with Fisascat Cisl e Will Tucs, asks the Region to call a urgent crisis table on trade in Lazio. “The opening and closing criteria should be dictated by health reasons, relating to risks of gatherings and the ability to control customers in large but closed spaces – continues Pelliccia – What difference is there if I sell branded clothes, furniture or with which Ateco code I am registered? Both the health of workers and respect for the free competition”.
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