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The Pfarrplatz parking garage reported just ten free spaces in response to an OÖN request this afternoon, and the garage in the Promenade Galleries was temporarily unavailable. One would think that this is not unusual in the run-up to Christmas, and yet something is different this year: As City Ring chairman Matthias Wied-Baumgartner confirmed in an interview with OÖN, business is moving from weekends to working days. “Frequency and sales are significantly better during the week than at the weekend,” says Wied-Baumgartner. Colleagues on the country road would also confirm this. Business people like to see this because there are usually more staff in the shops during the week.
“Very good during the week”
You hear something similar in the catering industry. “In the coffee house I notice that business is now very good even during the week,” says Robert Seeber from Café Ecco on the corner of Spittelwiese and Landstrasse. “Yesterday was crazy for a Monday.”
Catch-up effects?
At the moment we can only speculate about the reasons. There may be catch-up effects due to the bad weather or Wied-Baumgartner believes that many people still want to do all their Christmas shopping this week because on Saturday only groceries and the like are bought and the Sunday date for Christmas Eve means there is no shopping weekend.
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