In the morning, the facade of the historic shopping center of Limassol began to resemble everyday life, with the blinds of the stores reopening, after four weeks of inactivity, and the shopkeepers ready to welcome the consumers, advertising discounts and offers in their shop windows.
“We call on the people to run, because they will find bargain prices, goods that remained unavailable and are now being sold at the best prices”, said the Central Organizer of POVEK, Kyriakos Moustakas, to KYPE.
Mr. Moustakas expressed his satisfaction with the reopening of the retail trade and assured that all shopkeepers comply with the safety measures and stressed that consumers should also comply with these measures, wearing their masks and keeping their distance and taking advantage of low prices. market prices.
“We feel embarrassed, because after four weeks of inactivity we return to normalcy and the wishes we send to the whole world are to go well, because many colleagues went through and are having a hard time,” the representative of the historic shopping center of Leme told KYPE. Christis Dimitriou.
The offers continue, he said and added that, “as we enter the 2nd ten days of February, the discounts will be extended until the end of the month, because the spring series starts in March and we say that there will be quite big offers and people deserve a walk in stores”.
At the same time he noted that retail should not be considered lucky to be reopening and no one should care the next day, “because with us we have to think about the people of the restaurants whose premises remain closed so large period, but also other colleagues, in other professions, which have not yet been reactivated “.
Mr. Dimitriou wished that all branches reopen soon and pointed out that “if everyone follows the protocol faithfully, we will be able to bring back these people who are having a hard time and I hope they have the patience and financial ability to endure.”
At the same time, he expressed his optimism for the future of the historic shopping center of the city, reminding that within the year there will be a huge store of a well-known chain in the field of clothing and footwear, while promoting the procedures for starting construction of a city hotel and three boutique hotel.
“We are very optimistic and we hope that Independence Street will include the rest of the historic center in the development and that is why we are making huge efforts as shopkeepers together with the Municipality of Limassol,” he added.
Until noon, the traffic in both the historic shopping center of the city and in “MyMall” is recorded as satisfactory, while it is estimated that the attendance will increase in the afternoon, observing, as we were pointed out, the security measures provided.
