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Shops around the Czech Republic opened on Monday after being closed for more than four months due to the Covid-19 pandemic. While the turnout was higher than usual, queues formed only occasionally outside larger stores.
Some of the larger discount chains, such as KiK, extended their opening hours to help prevent crowding.
According to the Czech Confederation of Commerce and Tourism, the turnout in shops on the first day of their reopening was about 25 percent higher than on regular Mondays.
However, the real test of customers’ loyalty will be the upcoming weekend, when many retailers plan to introduce discounts, head of the Czech Confederation Commerce and Tourism Tomáš Prouza told the Czech News Agency.
By Reuters Staff
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FILE PHOTO: Traditional Trdelnik sweet pastries are seen in a market in Prague, Czech Republic, April 19, 2018. REUTERS/David W Cerny/File Photo
PRAGUE (Reuters) - Czech lawmakers rejected plans to require supermarkets to sell mainly domestically produced food on Tuesday, removing the measure from a bill on food quality to avoid clashes with the European Commission over EU single market rules.
Parliament’s lower house approved a Senate version of a Food Act bill that included an amendment abolishing quotas, which had been placed in the legislation when lawmakers first voted in January.
The overall bill is aimed at preventing double standards in food, an issue that some formerly communist eastern members of the European Union have pursued for years, contending that inferior food products unwanted by consumers in richer Western EU states were being sold in poorer Eastern markets.