A negative corona test as an entry ticket for shops: This now also applies in the Fürstenfeldbruck district.
Many retailers fear that customers will stay away.
Most of all, she is disturbed by the constant back and forth.
Olching / Puchheim / Fürstenfeldbruck / Maisach
- “I don't think anyone will come to shop,” says Christian Huber, managing director of the building materials center in Olching (BZO).
The hurdle of a test is probably too high.
If you still want to go shopping, you have to make an appointment on the website.
There you will then be able to tick that you can show a negative test during the visit, explains Huber.
Corona: Self-tests while shopping - "I still have no idea how we should implement this"
The managing director does not yet know whether the BZO will make use of the self-test option.
“We'll have to offer it somehow, otherwise no one will come.
But I still have no idea how we should implement it. ”The most frustrating thing for Huber, however, is the constant back and forth, sometimes up, then back up, then up again.
"The wishy-washy is amazing," he says annoyed.
"Nothing is thought through to the end."
The Technomarkt in Fürstenfeldbruck is also unsure about the control of the self-tests.
But it is clear that it should be done, says managing director Peter Melzl.
"We want to use all possibilities." At the moment there are still talks with the authorities.
Customers who came with a PCR test or a rapid test carried out by a medical professional could be checked in the front area of the market.
For Nicola Bräunling from the bookstore of the same name in Puchheim, on the other hand, it is clear that she will not aggressively advertise the opportunity to test herself in the store.
"I think that would be a very strange thing."
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Bräunling expects that not too many will visit her bookstore because of the compulsory test.
The effort is too great.
“You don't take a test to buy two paperbacks.” Especially since you can still pick up books you have ordered without a test and without an appointment (Click & Collect).
She therefore fears a massive drop in sales.
Not only the retailers are unsettled, the customers no longer know what they are, complains Bräunling.
That is why they make updated notices and changes on their website.
You understand the measures, but "this back and forth bothers most of all.
Nobody knows their way around anymore, ”says the bookseller.
She would like a clear line.
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"I don't think that people will still buy from us when they need a test," says Evi Huttenloher, owner of the shoe shop of the same name and chairwoman of the Maisach trade association.
She is particularly annoyed that the new regulation came at such short notice.
“It will be decided on Friday and we should implement it on Monday.
You are overwhelmed. ”She does not want to take advantage of the opportunity to offer tests herself.
“Who should pay me for that?” If she were to offer 150 tests a week, it would cost 600 to 700 euros, she calculates.
"Not worth it."
At Würstle Gartenland in Fürstenfeldbruck, there is great uncertainty as to whether the new mandatory test is required.
“We don't even know how we're going to handle it,” says junior boss Vitus Würstle.
He points out that more staff would have to be assigned to control the tests.
"It's all a big challenge."
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