The long, second lockdown continues to cause problems for the Würmtaler businesses.
Many have just 20 percent of normal sales or less.
State aid has not yet arrived.
Würmtal
- Planegger Intersport Haindl is currently selling its articles in many different ways, such as "street sales", orders by telephone, WhatsApp, Amazon and Zalando.
“Nevertheless, we are only in the single-digit percentage range of normal sales.
Normally it would be our main season now, but the ski areas are closed and winter is over for us, ”says owner Andreas Haindl.
"It's a mean disaster."
Haindl particularly criticizes the injustice that large discounters are allowed to continue selling sporting goods in stores, but he as a local retailer is not.
“The relation is missing for me now.
There was not a single infection in the retail trade. ”Haindl has also not yet received a euro from the state aid promised for the current time.
Also from other sides like his landlord there was no concession.
“Sometimes there was not even an answer.” If the situation should therefore last a long time, it would become existential for the Würmtal sports shop.
"The pain threshold is in mid-March"
"Some people already call or order books online, but it's not a lot and of course much less than normal," reports Julia Sauerbrey, owner of the Graefelfinger bookstore "Wort.Schatz".
For example, the additional business with stationery and small gifts is largely missing, says Sauerbrey.
The best in the bookstore are some “thick books”, cookery and baking books, children's things and new publications such as the new biographies about Joe Biden and Kamala Harris.
Other non-fiction books and novels “don't work at all at the moment,” reports Sauerbrey.
Overall, sales are roughly the same as during the first lockdown.
“From an economic point of view, it would of course be good if the lockdown ended as soon as possible.
Mid-March is already a pain threshold for me, so that we can at least have a little something from the Easter business, which of course won't be normal this year ”, says Julia Sauerbrey.
It is also not yet clear whether the bookstore will receive government aid - let alone that something has arrived so far.
The business will probably survive the exceptional period, however, as Sauerbrey has always managed "very carefully" and has invested reserves.
Regular customers order online now
The Planegger New Look boutique is also not recording a complete standstill, says owner Andrea Heger.
“It is important and good for morale that some regular customers are also ordering now.
Of course, we are far from what we would be if we had normally open, ”explains Andrea Heger, who is currently around 20 percent of normal sales.
Most of the current customers would call, some would order by email or spontaneously stand at the shop door.
If the lockdown goes on for a long time, “I should at some point have to add some of my private money.
The date given is still okay.
But it will be very difficult for longer, ”says Heger, who is nevertheless in good spirits about surviving the crisis.
At the moment, transitional and spring fashions such as dresses, jackets and knitwear in the new seasonal colors are best.
"Click & Collect" has also been allowed in flower shops since January 11th.
In Neurieder “Blumen & so” “it took a while for word of this to get around, but it has been well received since then,” reports owner Wanda Breitenhuber.
There is still “some room for improvement in the number of orders, but it could also go worse”, says Breitenhuber, who also delivers via Fleurop, which is “going very well”.
The florist can make ends meet.
Breitenhuber is currently advising its customers over the phone and also offers video calls if necessary.
Breitenhuber buys her flowers from a Munich dealer who drives a truck past the store every day.
Babyland Reinartz can be open
Businesses in certain segments are also allowed to have open now.
In contrast to the first lockdown, “Reinartz Babyland” in Lochhamer Schlag can also leave its doors open.
“So it's almost normal for us.
We have no loss of sales, people come to the store normally, ”says Managing Director Eric Reinartz.
The frequency does change.
“But there is no sense that people are afraid of getting into business,” says Reinartz.
During the first lockdown in the spring, the baby and children's needs shop had to remain closed and offered telephone orders, the new online shop and pick-up options.
“The first lockdown was therefore difficult for us, the second is much easier,” says Eric Reinartz.
Peter Seybold