Black Friday chaos? Not only Greta Thunberg warns - the city mayor now wants the ban

Black Friday heats up people.

Greta Thunberg warns - but surprisingly cautious.

Another old friend goes much further in terms of Amazon.

• The "Black Friday" discount battle is also in full swing in the Corona year 2020.

• But not only activists like Greta Thunberg or Yanis Varoufakis urge customers to exercise restraint.

• In the Netherlands there is now a dispute over a ban.

  The reason is the fear of overcrowded city centers.

Update from November 29th:

In

,

are primarily an online phenomenon in the Corona year (see first report) - but in other European countries it is obviously different.

In the

, more than 20 mayors even want to ban the discount spectacle.

With that they join the ranks of some critics around climate activist Greta Thunberg.

Even if for other reasons.

The head of the city of Rotterdam, Ahmed Aboutaleb,

and two dozen other mayors in the country are campaigning to ban Black Friday, as reported by the Dutch news agency

.

The retailer's discount campaign lures numerous buyers into sometimes narrow shopping streets.

In many places there are fears that the

.

The

municipality

called on citizens on Sunday to avoid the city center and keep their distance.

Aboutaleb had already pulled the emergency brake on Friday because of the crowds and closed shops in the center early.

Even on weekends, downtown shops in the port metropolis had to close earlier than usual.

Other cities in the country followed suit, as

reported.

There was also a stir recently in

.

Under pressure from the government,

postponed

the day of action by one week to

.

The background to this are the concerns of the shopkeepers: Due to the lockdown in the country, most of the shops will be closed until December 1st.

In this way, online retailers and supermarkets alone would have benefited from Black Friday.

Black Friday heats up the minds: Greta Thunberg warns surprisingly cautious - another becomes clear

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The Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg protests at a “Fridays for Future” protest in front of the parliament in Stockholm.

© Jonathan NACKSTRAND / AFP

First report:

Munich / Stockholm -

is primarily a

for those who like to buy.

But of course the high festival of online mail order companies also has its political side - especially in times when the retailers in the city center fear for their existence.

There has already been a strike at Amazon, as

* reported.

In the meantime,

are also increasing

.

Also, but not just from the usual suspects.

Black Friday: Greta Thunberg urges restraint - "Don't buy stuff that you don't need"

Climate activist Greta Thunberg,

for example, has called for

not to shop for nothing

on

.

“Overconsumption is destroying current and future living conditions and the planet itself,” wrote the 17-year-old Swede on Twitter and Instagram.

“Don't buy stuff that you don't need.” Thunberg demonstrates every Friday against advancing climate change.

School strike week 119. Today is black Friday.

Overconsumption is wrecking present and future living conditions and the planet itself.

Don't buy stuff you don't need. # ClimateStrikeOnline #fridaysforfuture # schoolstrike4climate #flattenthecurve #FaceTheClimateEmergency pic.twitter.com/rMr02n0vwT

- Greta Thunberg (@GretaThunberg) November 27, 2020

At the same time, the economist and former Greek finance minister

who is also known in Germany, spoke up

.

He called

on

particular

.

In a video, he urged his viewers "not even to visit Amazon's website," as

reported by

the

,

among others

.

The shipping giant is not just a "monopoly mega-company".

It is "the pillar of the new techno-feudalism".

Amazon is one of the beneficiaries of the corona crisis - and one of the big players on Black Friday.

In Munich there were also protests in front of the company's headquarters, as

reported by

*.

Black Friday: "Fair Friday" as an alternative - commentator finds criticism of the savings battle "arrogant"

In Switzerland, an alliance of 160 shops

an alternative to the savings-centered discount battle: Instead, the dealers organize a

, as the website

reported.

Customers can forego the discount there and donate to the Swiss Caritas.

The fact that the now traditional discount battle day divides people's minds could also be seen on Friday from the

.

An author of the website

the criticism of Black Friday

as "arrogant and lacking in empathy"

.

Above all, the "upper middle class" can easily do without the savings.

“On Black Friday, one of the greatest paradoxes of our time becomes apparent in a meeting between the restless temptations of overconsumption and our generational failure towards our children and grandchildren,” wrote the Danish daily

, referring to the

.

Black Friday: Bad news for shopkeepers - online retail in particular is benefiting

Meanwhile, the German

had bad news

for shopkeepers in the Federal Republic.

"This year, online retail will benefit from Black Friday," said an association spokesman on Friday.

The

been participating in Black Friday with their own discount campaigns for years.

But the starting conditions for them are significantly worse this year than for

.

The first data

from the net seem to prove this: The “shopping community”

reported on Thursday of a

: On the eve of Black Friday, 1.53 million consumers were referred to offers -

than in the previous year as stated in a press release.

The question of what the online bargains are for Black Friday and the following “Cyber ​​Monday” remains unanswered.

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