Retail
Large food retailers struggle with staff shortage
Large food retail networks are struggling again with a staff shortage they had already been experiencing before the pandemic, and the phenomenon is particularly visible for personnel categories like commercial workers, cashiers, pickers or multipurpose workers, Essa Group said in a statement today.
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NSI Poll: Business Climate in Bulgaria Shows Slight Improvement
A regular monthly poll by the National Statistical Institute has found that managers saw the business climate in Bulgaria in April largely unchanged compared with March.
The monthly polls earlier this year had seen slight improvements in the business climate in Bulgaria, after the indicator plunged in the first half of 2020 against the background of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Bulgaria: Non-Food Retail Chains Are Broke, Brace for Civil Disobedience
Major non-food chains warn they do not rule out "staging protests and various forms of civil disobedience" if they are not allowed to open - without an "artificial distinction based on stores' overall shopping area."
Bulgaria: Big Retail Chains Mad at Government for Not Lifting Lockdown and Lack of Support
Another angry open letter was sent today by the Association for Modern Trade (MTA) , an organization that brings together some of the largest food and non-food retail stores in Bulgaria. It once again notes that the decision of the authorities not to open from April 1 the large non-food stores is detrimental to their business.
Covid-19 lockdown – Decisions on re-opening expected on Wednesday or Thursday
Proposals include the opening of education and retail under conditions
Retail sales volume up 2% in January
Turkey's retail sales volume with constant prices jumped 2% year-on-year in January, according to official figures released on March 12.
Sales of food, drinks, and tobacco increased 12.3% during the month, the Turkish Statistical Institute (TÜİK) said.
Automotive fuels and non-food sales dropped 5.8% and 0.6%, respectively.
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Sales in services and retail down almost 10% last year
Ljubljana – The Covid-19 lockdown that started in March last year and that has persisted in various forms had a significant impact on the volume of sales in the services sector and retail in 2020, as it was down by a combined 9.6% compared to the year before.
Retailers also see problems in measures
The number of customers that supermarkets can serve has fallen 70% after the government's decision to reduce the maximum number of shoppers in a store at any given time, plus the weekend curfew from 6 p.m., according to a survey by the Research Institute of Retail Consumer Goods (IELKA).
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Retailers express grievances
The retail market is particularly unhappy with the third lockdown that begins Thursday in Attica, stressing that neither the full closure of the market since November nor the partial reopening of stores afterward proved efficient against the pandemic and the recession.
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Confusion reigns in retail commerce
The market in Greece is currently operating at four different speeds, depending on each region's risk level, which is generating concern and internal conflict within retail commerce and confusion among consumers.
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