Edeka, Rewe and Rossmann start up business today
Opening times supermarket munich sunday.
Recent figures from the Society for Consumption (Gfk) show that the number of customers in the stores is decreasing. Even when talking to Today US , retail employees report that they are currently working overtime rather than overtime. Customers even believe that the economy is plunging into a deep recession.
Because customers are now consuming their large purchases and are not making any major investments, many traders are suffering. In some cases, the customer frequency dropped by 20 percent, as the "Food Newspaper" says." We are entering a new phase", market researcher Robert Kecskes is quoted.
Customers have covered themselves with enough merchandise, now dealers have to react, and competition may increase again. For consumers, lower prices for food are the best.
After three months, normality seems to be returning
For example, advertising brochures and handbills appeared increasingly in the current week.
Rossmann wanted to avoid a run on the stores and individual products. However, because the dealers are suffering under the new conditions, they are relying again on offers for action.
Christoph Werner, the head of dm, is also worried. While he mentioned in an interview that his company had sufficient reserves, it was clear that sales were falling.
Especially in the inner cities, the drug stores suffer severe burglaries. The reason for this is that customers buy the most important foods and drugstores in neighboring stores.
Besides, there would be a lot of fear of being downtown.