The disintegration of shops and services was to bring a fresh wind. However, neither epidemiologists nor traders are enthusiastic about it. “The government is pretending to ‘open up’, but in reality it means hundreds of people out in the cold waiting tens of minutes to buy,” Prouza said.
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What will it look like in practice? According to Prouza, an average of 40 people will wait about half an hour before the average self-service in a smaller town. For larger stores in cities, such as hypermarkets, 200 people can stand in line and the waiting time is extended to almost an hour.
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In Germany, the limit on the number of people inside the establishment is lower: one customer per 10 m2 floor areas. According to the Minister of Industry Karel Havlíček, the government has opted for a stricter option so that it can open all stores at once. He says it’s fairer.
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“We could go the other way, so that we could move half of the sector to category number two. This would mean that at least a week, rather 14 days, everyone would have to wait for their segment to open. And we could have been more accommodating to the business sector, for example, and it could have been one person per ten square meters, “he said.
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Tomáš Prouza from the Confederation of Trade and Tourism does not believe that people in queues would stand in discipline and at intervals for long minutes. “If you have to have those people lined up at two-meter intervals, it will also take up a huge amount of space. For example, a third of the parking lot, which is already full. So there will be a traffic collapse here. “
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Extending opening hours would help spread people over time. Traders tried to do so, but then the government ordered the closure and banned Sunday’s sale. “Until the government ordered it to close at eight, the stores extended sales hours. The number of people who went outside the rush hour increased by about a third, “says Prouza.
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