Second Advent: Shops in Berlin are allowed to open on Sunday
The second Advent in Berlin is also one of two shopping Sundays in the run-up to Christmas. Shops and department stores in the city are allowed to open on December 4th. The fourth Sunday in Advent should also be open for sale.
This gives customers an additional opportunity to shop. So far, the Christmas sale has started with the handbrake on, said the deputy managing director of the Berlin-Brandenburg trade association, Günter Pätz, the German Press Agency. “Money isn’t so loose anymore.”. We’ll have to wait and see how things go on Sunday shopping. “We are cautiously optimistic.”
Retailers are happy that the Senate has decided to allow two Sundays for shopping. “This is a great opportunity for us,” said Pätz. That would be different
Christmas business will definitely be worse this year.
There had been discussions about the topic in Berlin for months. By the end of October it was not clear whether and when there would be Sunday shopping in the run-up to Christmas this year.
According to the judgment of the Federal Administrative Court in March, Sunday shopping is permitted if more visitors are attracted by a corresponding event than would otherwise go shopping on a Sunday. The Verdi union had sued several times before the Higher Administrative Court – and lost. The Berlin-Brandenburg trade association, on the other hand, had spoken out in favor of it.
Broadcast: rbb24 Inforadio, December 4th, 2022, 10 a.m