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Shortly before the lockdown, many people took advantage of one of the last opportunities before Christmas to shop.
The shopping streets in the inner cities were, like here in Berlin, unusually full.
“We had already been to a store earlier and it was so full and they really only had two tills open, and there were tills downstairs, but they weren't manned. So of course it's dangerous. It's just full. And right now. It's even worse than before, I think. "
From Wednesday, many shops will have to be closed until January 10th.
Exceptions to this include grocery stores and drug stores.
So there is only little time left for the planned Christmas shopping in retail outlets - and buyers in many other German cities are also using this.
This is shown by real-time data from Hystreet, a company that measures the number of passers-by in German cities.
“It's no longer relaxed shopping.
There are just too many people and too many on each other.
That's just a no-go. "
But there are also people for whom other things are far more important than colorfully wrapped parcels under the Christmas tree.
“For me, Christmas is a celebration of love, so there don't have to be presents. For me, love is when you meet your fellow human beings and your family, for me this is Christmas and unfortunately we were not allowed to do that this year and it's very, very sad. "
“In the end, gifts are of secondary importance for our age. It's about family. That we come together with who we can with. And how we do it we have to vote. And then we will celebrate Christmas in peace and it will be good. "