The announcement on Friday of the German retailer has Galeria Karstadt Kaufhof, house-mother of the Galeria Inno’s, of his intention to close 62 of its 172 branches across the world constitutes a “first warning shot”, reacts Saturday, the Setca/BBTK. More than 5,000 jobs are threatened by this measure, but there would be no threat to employment in Belgium at the present time.
“But, behind all this, there is another reality,” says the trade union socialist, “namely, the difficulty that now stores, non-food, in the aftermath of the crisis of the Covid, to gradually regain their cruising speed in terms of attendance and turnover. Between the pressure of ever-growing giants of e-commerce and the inaction of the major distributors and their representatives in Belgium to find solutions, it is the employees who are likely to pay the price, extremely quickly”.
