Shops are to open on Sunday, January 21, due to the winter sales in Greece, ANA reports.
The recommended shop opening hours are between 11:00 and 18:00 on the high street and from 11:00 until 20:00 for shopping malls and department stores.
Retail traders described consumer traffic during the sales as “sluggish”, which the vice-president of the Athens Professional Chamber Nikos Kougioumtsis attributed to the high cost of living and the fact that the sales began almost immediately after the holidays.
“Price increases for food have snipped at the income available for consumption and we are seeing this in our cash registers,” Kougioumtsis said, adding that not much was left after the spending during the holidays.
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