Shops in trouble, squeezed between the drop in consumption and the boom in online sales.
Small businesses that are struggling to keep up with the competition with e-commerce, in many cases family businesses against big names on the web in an unequal challenge that risks lowering around 60,000 shutters between this year and 2027, with 100,000 seats of lost work.
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This is the alarm that comes from the annual meeting of Confesercenti
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A sector, that of commerce, tourism and services which, after the great collapse caused by the pandemic, is now dealing with the impact of skyrocketing inflation and the consequent loss of household purchasing power which reduces spending .
In an economic phase of more or less generalized difficulty, also signaled by the trend in industrial production, which in October, based on Istat data, fell for the second consecutive month, with a drop of 1% compared to September.
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In the annual comparison, the decline reaches 1.6%.
The numbers presented by Confesercenti are heavy: the expenditure that went up in smoke this year precisely because of inflation reaches 7.2 billion euros.
Until 2025, the erosion of household purchasing power will reach 22 billion and lead to a drop in consumption of at least 17 billion.
Therefore, the belt is tightened and even less will be spent on Christmas gifts: on average 197 euros per person, a lower budget than last year's 238 euros.
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And for the gifts that will arrive under the tree, the major e-commerce platforms are once again establishing themselves as purchasing channels.
The shops are trying to resist, as is the tourism sector which has restarted but the pre-Covid levels remain far away.
The owners of restaurants and bars, the association reports, have not yet returned from the crisis condition resulting from Covid.
Hence the request to extend the rules, currently in force until next December 31, on the occupation of public land for outdoor tables, dehors.
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Christmas tree in 9 out of 10 homes (85%): again this year the majority of Italians (63%) prefer to reuse the plastic tree of past years, while almost three million families opt for the real fir, with an average cost of 40 euros.
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