Retail in Austria will reopen on Monday. “Today” knows what to expect.
Shopping in Austria will start on Monday. There are distance rules and an FFP2 mask requirement. Also new: one customer can enter the store for every 20 square meters of sales area. And: In many places there should be big discounts.
“We are catching up on the clearance sale that was actually planned for December 27,” said XXXLutz spokesman Thomas Salinger to “Today” . “We have the advantage that the start falls on a Monday, not a Saturday or a giddy day.” Salinger says that one is prepared for the third reopening since the start of the pandemic. Customers receive free FFP2 masks (300,000 pieces were ordered), stickers in the checkout area draw attention to the spacing rules. “The warehouses are full, the customers are waiting. You can tell from the calls on our website,” said Salinger.
On the part of Hervis it is said that they are also betting on a sale. Winter sports articles are reduced by up to 50%, ski touring equipment by up to 30%.
And where else are there discounts? Rainer Trefelik, chairman of the Federal Trade Department in the Economic Chamber Austria (WKÖ) says, compared to “Today” in particular rebates in fashion and electronics stores ahead: “The camps are full, the season almost over – without discounts it will not work in these areas . “
As the WKÖ calculates, the loss of revenue from the three lockdowns totaled 9.7 billion euros. Now it is important to save what can be saved, said the trade chairman.
An example? From now until February 20, MediaMarkt sells everything that is not nailed down. Tens of thousands of products are discounted at the “biggest sale of all time” and are available at “bargain prices” – “Today” reported. The reason: “We are facing the current challenge that the products in our warehouses are piling up to the ceiling,” says Richard Zweimüller, Sales Manager at MediaMarkt Austria.
