Munich (dpa / lby) - The football World Cup in Qatar is not a steep template for the Bavarian retail trade this year: "It's rather dead pants," said the spokesman for the Bavarian trade association, Bernd Ohlmann, on Tuesday in Munich. During the German "summer fairy tale", the home World Cup in 2006, the Bavarian trade made an additional turnover of almost 500 million euros. "We are now light years away from that," said the HBE spokesman: "The Germany jersey is a slow seller", the demand for the World Cup ball and similar items is very weak, and "also the otherwise good sales before each World Cup of TV sets is rather sluggish".
The World Cup in the Arab country begins next Sunday, with the final taking place on December 18th. The Bavarian Business Association emphasized that the same rules apply under labor law as usual: "Employees have no right to follow the games during working hours. It is up to the employer to decide whether he wants to make separate regulations for the World Cup," said vbw -CEO Bertram Brossardt on Tuesday.
