The head of Lidl criticizes Petru’s idea. “The absolute worst case scenario”
An intermediate solution, i.e. two Sundays off a month, is the absolute worst-case scenario, says Włodzimierz Wlaźlak, head of Lidl in Poland, in an interview with “Puls Biznesu”, referring to the idea of liberalizing the law on the Sunday trading ban.
The draft law liberalizing the Sunday trading ban is freezing in the Sejm – writes “Puls Biznesu”, emphasizing that business is not eager for changes, but the topic is being heated up by politicians, mainly Ryszard Petru from Poland 2050.
Szymon Hołownia’s party pushed this idea during the election campaign, proposing the introduction of two shopping Sundays a month. In March, a draft law on this matter was submitted and since then, not much has happened in this matter, as the bill is still waiting for formal consideration in parliamentary committees. On Tuesday, the parliamentary economy committee headed by Petru dealt with it, but it could not do it formally because it should consider the project together with the social policy and family committee. Meanwhile, as the newspaper notes, the committee headed by Left MP Katarzyna Ueberhan has no plans to work on changes to the Sunday Trading Act yet.
– I hope that I will be able to convince the social policy committee to work on this bill, and if not, I will look for another way. – emphasizes Petru, quoted by the newspaper.
The head of Lidl is critical of the liberalization of the trade ban law
The idea of introducing two shopping Sundays a month is criticized by Włodzimierz Wlaźlak, head of Lidl in Poland. – An intermediate solution, i.e. two Sundays off a month, is the absolute worst-case scenario – says Wlaźlak in an interview with “Puls Biznesu”.
In his opinion, customers will be completely confused about when stores are open and when they are not. – Such chaos will mean measurable losses for us, especially the risk of wasting fresh products that will reach stores on Sundays. – emphasizes the head of Lidl in Poland.
It is worth recalling, however, that in the initial period of operation of the Act on the trade ban, there were two trading Sundays on the last day of the week – the first and the last in the month.
According to a SW Research survey for “Wprost” conducted at the end of June, 56 percent of Poles support the idea of introducing two shopping Sundays a month. 30.1 percent of respondents are against it, and 14 percent have no opinion on the matter.
