Trade in Corona-crisis: Teddy-Paradise is struggling to Survive

were allowed to open the shops after the Corona-Lockdown again, went ahead of the man high Teddy bear, in front of the "Teddy bear Paradise" a good example: Protected by a colorful cloth mask, he remembered the rules of the passers-by on the römerberg to the hygiene. In the meantime, however, the tradition of the business, the even the Queen threatens a substance bears took home to become victim to the pandemic. As owner Michael Gließner says, has to cope with the "Teddy bear Paradise" severe revenue losses.

Matthias Trautsch

editor in the Rhein-Main-Zeitung.

Even worse it was to the neighboring "Souvenir Paradise", the second Load, the Gließner with his husband Volker leads. Since the beginning of the Corona-crisis tourists were hardly on the Roman mountain, he says. "We are glad, when we can sell two, three postal cards." The employees were no longer in short-time working, the reserves were sufficient for a long time. Particularly burdensome, the cost of renting: monthly 9000 Euro to be in this position of the cold for the two stores. For June, we have transferred only half of it to the landlord, the municipal ABG-Holding, says Gließner. Then a reminder with a cancellation threat had come.