Food industry in the district of Freising: "We are the very last who are allowed to whine"

Created: 02/20/2022, 19:00

By: Magdalena Höcherl, Andrea Beschorner

Sales increase of 20 percent: Butcher Benedikt Schuhbauer from Kirchdorf broke the snack business, but in the lockdown people cooked more at home, and customers paid more attention to quality.

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Corona has hit retail hard.

The grocers in the Freising district, on the other hand, are posting stable figures.

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– Unlike many retailers, the food industry has benefited from Corona, according to the German Trade Association.

This is also confirmed in the Freising district.

"The butchers did not lose in the crisis," says Benedikt Schuhbauer from the butcher of the same name in Kirchdorf and adds: "But I definitely wouldn't count them among the winners either." Because the snack business collapsed completely during the lockdowns.

But because people couldn't go out to eat either, many had (re)discovered cooking at home.

And that brought - as some of his colleagues would have confirmed - an interim increase in sales of around 20 percent, with which the butchers were able to compensate for the losses from the sale of snacks.

Pleasing: Benedikt Schuhbauer observes rethinking - regionality is required

What Benedikt Schuhbauer, also as chairman of Freisinger Land, the association of regional food producers, is happy about: He can see a rethinking.

More and more people attach importance to regionality, quality and sustainability.

"Many have dealt with the topic of regionality and basically dealt with what they would like to have on their plate." Schuhbauer cannot (yet) say whether this will also have a positive effect on the Freisinger Land store in downtown Freising, since the Store was opened in the middle of the pandemic and therefore comparative figures for the time before the crisis are simply missing.

2021 was "animal exhausting" for Marianne Lang

2021 was "animal exhausting", says Marianne Lang from Kasdandler in Freising.

This does not only mean the Corona requirements, but also the inner city construction site, which has been right in front of her shop door since mid-September.

"But I had a very good year," says the owner.

In her opinion, all food sellers would have benefited from Corona: "People couldn't go out to eat, so more people cooked at home."

(By the way: everything from the region is now also available in our regular Freising newsletter.)

Stefan Geisenhofer, head of the bakery and confectionery of the same name, which has a total of four branches in Freising and Marzling, reports something similar.

"Of course we were a little bit limited because the gastronomy was gone." The many people who didn't go on vacation all year would have made up for the deficit.

His company was also lucky because he did not have to send anyone on short-time work or temporarily close due to a corona case.

Geisenhofer emphasizes: "So we are absolutely the very last who are allowed to complain."  

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