All four IKEA department stores operated by the company in the Czech Republic have been following the onslaught on Saturday since opening. People can monitor the current occupancy on its website. For example, the Ostrava IKEA was completely full around 11:15, the last few places remained at this time in the store in Prague in Zličín.

The shoppers also went to OC Nový Smíchov in the morning. And yet the traffic was quiet, a shorter queue of people standing in front of the New Yorker store. Corridors for regulatory lines have already been created in advance at several popular stores. Suddenly, people were also waiting in front of the Calzedonia hosiery and swimwear store. However, there can be a maximum of three customers in this store at one time.

There was more traffic in OC Letňany. Longer queues were, for example, at Sinsay or Cropp merchants, which offer the module mainly for young people. In addition to clothing stores, queues at checkouts were also in shoe stores. But McDonald’s, for example, was also full.

The visitor center obviously lacks a lot of seating, which the centers had to remove or block from the government order. There are several seats available in OC Letňany, it was constantly occupied. People stood at the railing in large numbers so that they could at least lean while waiting for the other members of the household with whom they went shopping. They carelessly shuffled and regularly looked for a place to sit. However, a security agency worker came to warn them that this was not possible.

For example, according to its marketing managers Martina Tlusty, Galerie Harfa is not a traditional weekend shopping center, many people today take the opportunity of reopened stores and go shopping. “Attendance is roughly at the same level as in previous days, when it was 60 percent higher than the week before the disintegration, which is within our expectations,” he says.

There is an interest in footwear in Brno

Crowds of people flooded the Olympia and Futurum shopping centers in Brno from Saturday morning. The queues were mainly in front of shoe stores. There were also longer queues in front of clothing stores.

The shops were closed for more than four months due to the coronavirus pandemic. The first visitors can welcome on Monday, now they are open the first weekend. In stores, there is a limit of one customer per 15 square meters. People must have their noses and mouths covered. It is also necessary to keep the distances and disinfect your hands before entering. Caterers only bring food with them.

In the Olympia in Brno, on the turn-off from the regional capital in the direction of Břeclav, it was already full in the morning. Queues of people stood in front of their shoes, waiting in front of clothing stores. Among the customers were people of different ages and families with children. During the day, other vehicles came to the parking lot.

There was also interest in shopping in the Futurum shopping center in Brno in the southwest of the city on the Pohořelice and Znojmo road stop. Here, too, the queues were mainly for shoes.

This weekend is the first in Brno after more than four months of closing, when all stores are open again. There is a limit of one customer per 15 square meters. People need to keep their mouths and noses covered, keep their distance, and disinfect their hands before entering the sale. Catering facilities in OC can sell snacks only with them, there are closed children’s corners or cinemas.