Monday, September 1, 2014

Crisis, black september for traders: from closed for holidays to closed for ever

Due to the crisis and a massacre of bar, libraries, restaurants and clothing stores. So much so that today, 1 September, thousands of shops not snuffed the gates after the summer holidays. So how could consist ilfattoquotidiano.it the main italian citiesCrisi, settembre nero per i commercianti: dal chiuso per ferie al chiuso per sempre

"It's a desperation, very sad. Things are even worse. We want someone who will reverse the route". But who? The answer to the lady Mary, trader historic in the center of roman shopping, not ec has none. Due to the crisis, in all the italian cities, and a massacre of bar, libraries, restaurants, clothing stores and cosmetics. So much so that today, 1 September, thousands of shops not snuffed the gates after the summer holidays. "Sees - explains to ilfattoquotidiano.it Maria, a merchant from feisty spirit that in recent years, there is due serve with a bureaucracy ever more insidious and a suffocating fiscal pressure - there are two shops and a bar that have affixed to showcase 'closed for holidays', but i know for sure that we will reopen". The official numbers there are still no to confirm this that is more than a feeling and that you feel walking the streets of the trade along the boot. But the forecasts of Confesercenti leave no doubt. In July and August have ceased their activities approximately 5,463 companies, against just the opening of just 2,603 . In other words: every 2 closures, there was only one opening with the most serious situation which is recorded in southern regions, where focuses almost a third of total closures. But the new activities seem to be, however, intended to have a shorter lives. Forecasts, that if they should be confirmed, confirm a negative trend for over a year, in line with that recorded in the summer of 2013, up to now the annus horribilis for the retail trade. Always according to the Association of operators, June 2014 over 40% of open tasks in 2010 (about 27thousand firms) is already disappeared, by burning a capital investment of approximately 2.7 billion euros. AND a company on four lasts even less than three years. ROME bitter reality, certified in the field, even from another retailer of via Cavour, commercial artery always in the heart of Rome. "After the summer break - he told us - will remain closed a couple of local which is, however, expose the cartel with the signs for the holiday". What, in fact, there is no written on cardstock (posted must be for law) is a whole another story even more mortifying. Close businesses that also have a long family activities behind and that modesty does not manage to admit its defeat, pinched between taxes, contributions to the Inps, the opening of commercial centers and the loss of customers. The last shot of queue for the dignity of a small businessman - factory or shop that is the spirit foro Italico is always the same - that prefer to close without fuss, perhaps taking advantage of the holiday. As well as confirmation Confesercenti: "Only at the end of the year, with the non-renewal of the card with the association, we discover that a member has closed and its activities and disappearance.