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Shopping streets busier on Black Friday, but not like before coronavirus
2 years ago

Shopping streets busier on Black Friday, but not like before coronavirus

NL Times  

The city centers in the Netherlands attracted many more people on Black Friday than the average during the past eight Fridays. Black Friday is a traditional start to the holiday sales season in the United States, beginning the day after the Thanksgiving holiday. The phenomenon has also become established in the Netherlands in recent years, but INretail was not willing …

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Fewer stores offering massive discounts for Black Friday
2 years, 1 month ago

Fewer stores offering massive discounts for Black Friday

NL Times  

Black Friday fever seems to be dwindling in the Netherlands. Fewer stores plan to offer massive discounts this year, NU.nl reports based on a survey by sector organization INretail. “We hear from a chain that gave 30 percent discount on everything last year that they’ll now only do this on one item,” an INretail spokesperson said. In recent years, the …

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MP’s to discuss expansion of Covid access pass system; Store owners want in
2 years, 11 months ago

MP’s to discuss expansion of Covid access pass system; Store owners want in

NL Times  

MPs will debate on January 17 at the earliest on bills concerning the 2G policy which would only grant access to people vaccinated against Covid-19 or those who recovered from a Covid-19 infection. They will also discuss the expansion of the 3G Covid access pass. The three proposals about a possible 2G policy and the Covid access pass in higher …

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Consumers rush to do last minute shopping; Rotterdam municipality asks people to avoid center
3 years ago

Consumers rush to do last minute shopping; Rotterdam municipality asks people to avoid center

NL Times  

The municipality of Rotterdam asked people to come to the center anymore. #AlleenSamen #Corona — Gemeente Rotterdam December 18, 2021 Many shopping streets across the Netherlands were busier than usual on Saturday as people prepared for the announcement of a hard lockdown on Saturday evening. The retail trade association INretail said the Cabinet must be careful not to take measures …

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Business owners stunned by possible new lockdown
3 years ago

Business owners stunned by possible new lockdown

NL Times  

Many entrepreneurs were shocked that the Netherlands could be headed for a complete lockdown again, chair of the business owner's organization Ondernemend Nederland, Hans Biesheuvel said. After two previous lockdowns in which, among other businesses, bars, restaurants, retail stores, cultural institutions and cinemas were subject to strict coronavirus restrictions, the support of entrepreneurs has declined sharply, according to Biesheuvel. "It …

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Retailers pleased by lack of Covid access pass; Events sector asks for perspective
3 years ago

Retailers pleased by lack of Covid access pass; Events sector asks for perspective

NL Times  

The Netherlands' business community was not surprised that the Cabinet extended the evening lockdown into January. Trade unions FNV and CNV want employers and the government to be lenient towards working parents whose children will have to stay home next week due to the new measures. Due to the Cabinet's decision to close schools a week early, "many working parents …

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First day of new Covid measures was successful, Security Council leader says
3 years, 1 month ago

First day of new Covid measures was successful, Security Council leader says

NL Times  

"I am not under the impression that we have to be dissatisfied with the first day," chair of the Security Council and Nijmegen mayor Hubert Bruls on Saturday evening in Nieuwsuur about the first day of stricter coronavirus measures. When asked whether the government will announce stricter measures next Friday, Bruls said that this "is in the hands of all …

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Two thirds of stores don't expect to survive upcoming two months
3 years, 10 months ago

Two thirds of stores don't expect to survive upcoming two months

NL Times  

Many retail businesses say they will not be able to survive much longer with the strict lockdown restrictions that have been in place for months. About two-thirds of stores say they have will have to close their doors within the next two months should the situation not improve, according to a study by the retailers' union INretail, ANP reports. “Growers, …

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Cafes, bars and the high street fear extended lockdown bloodbath
3 years, 11 months ago

Cafes, bars and the high street fear extended lockdown bloodbath

Dutch News  

Employers in the retail and hospitality sectors fear a ‘bloodbath’ if the coronavirus lockdown in the Netherlands is extended for at least two weeks, as reported. ‘The cents have been spent, there is no more leeway,’ Dirk Beljaarts, head of the hospitality sector association KHN told the Telegraaf on Monday. Prime minister Mark Rutte is set to announce an extension …

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Dutch retailers want to spread Black Friday over multiple days
4 years, 1 month ago

Dutch retailers want to spread Black Friday over multiple days

NL Times  

Retailers in the Netherlands want to start Black Friday discounts a week earlier and run them until the day itself on November 27, in the hopes that this will prevent crowding during the coronavirus crisis, INretail said after surveying its members, ANP reports. Over the weekend, trade union FNV called on retailers to completely skip Black Friday this year, calling …

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Dutch shopping streets face looming disaster with economic downturn
4 years, 5 months ago

Dutch shopping streets face looming disaster with economic downturn

NL Times  

Many shops in the Netherlands are in danger of vacancy due to a decrease in sales because of the coronavirus catastrophe. Now that people are strictly instructed to social distance, these shops are losing a great percentage of customers that come to them, Trouw reported Jan Meerman, director of INretail, the trade association of retailers, said that things are actually …

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