Moreover, if the Italians against the background of rising numbers of infected COVID-2019 massively bought tangerines and peaches, the French bought chicken sausages, and the British – cured meats. Without exception, EU citizens have dramatically increased their spending in pharmacies.
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certain categories of goods, on the contrary, greatly subsided during the mass RAID concerned an outbreak of a communicable disease of Europeans in the supermarkets. Thus, in France and Italy began to buy less beauty products. But in General, the EU has significantly decreased sales of expensive fish, champagne and flowers.
At the same time, sales of more traditional products – eggs, rice, frozen fruits and vegetables, as well as the massive alcohol hit records in the EU.
it is Noted that among the factors forcing the residents of the European Union to spend more on food in stores, there are not only subjective fears due to the outbreak of atypical disease. The increase in the content of grocery carts Europeans objectively affects the complete closure of the quarantine establishments.
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Workers more than a dozen shops of the leading chains of grocery stores in Belgium last week declared a strike, demanding from employers higher wages and additional measures for the protection of personnel during an outbreak of the coronavirus. Thus, according to the Brussels edition of The Times, employees of the local chain stores Carrefour did not come to work last Friday – sellers require their company “to show respect and give appropriate compensation”.
Similar protests in the network of the Belgian Delhaize grocery stores have forced the management of the company to give the employees a bonus of 500 Euro.
