Shopping centers, large stores and bars and restaurants open from today with a capacity of 40% in phase 2

Large surfaces will open in their entirety this Monday, passing to phase 2 all Spain, while 90.000 stores, 12% of about 779.000 in Spain will continue closed, considering that it is not profitable to open the shops.

From today the 568 shopping centers in Spain will already be operational when entering phase 2, since they will open the 164 centers that remained closed in the areas that were in phase 1, that is, 29% of them.Throughout the past week, 71.1% of the parks and shopping centers have worked, 404 in total, as indicated by the Spanish Association of Commercial Centers (AECC).

In phase 2, which already enters Madrid, Barcelona and some areas of Castilla y León today, the opening of the interior space of retail stores is contemplated, with a capacity limited to 40% and preferential schedule for the elderly, and theOpening of commercial centers or parks, prohibiting permanence in common areas or recreational areas.

The shopping centers, in addition to controlling the limitation of the capacity, must comply.

In addition, shopping centers remember through numerous signs of the need to maintain the safety distance of two meters and in the clothing stores the garments that customers have played and have not bought.

That distance will also have to be kept in the parking lots of the shopping centers, and it will be necessary to leave a free square between every two cars.

In Madrid, 101 shopping centers will resume their activity, while in Castilla y León, 24, taking into account that the one in El Bierzo was already working, and in Catalonia they will lift the closing another 39.

The 568 shopping centers total a gross alkylable surface (SBA) of 16.436.650 square meters, integrate 36.126 premises, of which 85% is less than 300 meters, and make available to the public an endowment of 871.608 parking spaces.

In 2019 they received more than 1.998 million visits (16% more than in 2018), sales were 46.163 million euros (1% higher) and created more than 740.000 jobs, 46 % of them direct and 54 % indirect, according to their data.

The industry of centers and commercial parks contributes 8.400 million euros to the gross domestic product, which represents 0.7% of GDP, and 5.7% of the GDP of the services sector.

12% closed by the absence of tourism

As reported by the Association of Autonomous Workers (ATA), despite the fact that Madrid, Barcelona, the Sanitary Region of Lleida, the North and South Metropolitan Regions of Catalonia and Todo Castilla y León pass to phase 2 of the broken down, 12% of the self -employed that run shops will not open and choose to continue with the closure thrown.

ATA has stressed that since tourism is deactivated, many merchants who have business closely linked to that sector, such as souvenir shops, which are inside the train stations or in hotels, they are not worth resuming their activity.

About 90.000 businesses run by self -employed and 85.000 bars and restaurants, 28%, will not open their doors yet despite the progress of the Descalada Plan although almost nine out of ten freelancers (88%) will have recovered the activity and open their businesses before Friday, June 12.In that 88%, 22% of self -employed are included who have not stopped their activity during the three months in which the alarm status has been decreed.

"The incorporation into this new reality has been happening little by little and unequally in the Spanish territory.Many self -employed will open this week for the first time after almost three months of break.It can be said that almost nine out of ten freelancers have been incorporated, but there are still 380.000 who do not know when they can return to their activity, "said the president of Ata, Lorenzo Amor.

Thus, the most autonomous sectors bring together their activity are: agriculture and construction (99%), health activities and transport (98%), administrative activities and information and communication (97%).

However, on the opposite side are the freelancers who are dedicated to education and that only 40% have activity, which means that there are about 55.000 freelancers of this sector without activity, or those focused on artistic activities, which only have a 45% activity that leaves without 38.000 freelancers.

For its part, trade marks 88%openings, which is 90.000 businesses that have not yet opened, while the hospitality industry records 72% of openings, with 85.000 bars and restaurants have not yet opened in Spain.

To them are added about 19.000 freelancers del sector de la industria que no han retomado su actividad (que ha abierto en un 91% del sector), 46.000 freelancers que aun no ha retomado su actividad dentro de las actividades profesionales y técnicas y 22.000 that are dedicated to other sectors and that throughout Spain they have not been able to return to work, according to the data of ATA.

"More than half of the freelancers have had a fall of more than 60% of their turnover, so it is importantNormality or with great billing falls as we are evidencing, "said Amor, who has also considered it necessary to prolong the necessary time for these freelancers with restrictions or falls of important activity."The consumption and activity, although it is going to recover, will do it slowly," he added.

Specifically, attending to what was invoiced in the first five months of 2020 compared to the first five months of 2019, ATA verifies an average fall of 60%.

For 16.2% of self -employed this fall has been 80% of their turnover and for 53.7% of the self -employed the fall has been between 40% and 60%.Only 2.6% of the freelancers have seen their turnover in these five months compared to the first five months of 2019.

By communities, Murcia is the most autonomous have resumed its normal activity or never abandoned it (94%) in activity.It is followed by greater percentage of return to normal, although with limitations, Galicia and the Basque Country (93%), Navarra and Extremadura (92%), Andalusia, Aragon and Cantabria (91%) and Asturias that this week will reach 90%of openings.

40%capacity and strict hygiene measures

The shopping centers, in addition to controlling the limitation of the capacity, must comply.

In addition, shopping centers remember through numerous signs of the need to maintain the safety distance of two meters and in the clothing stores the garments that customers have played and have not bought.

That distance will also have to be kept in the parking lots of the shopping centers, and it will be necessary to leave a free square between every two cars, informa Efe.

The English Court reopens

The English Court prepares the total opening of its approximately 90 centers as of today, which will involve the "gradual" incorporation of employees affected by the Temporary Employment Regulation File (ERT), as confirmed to Europa Press in sources in sources from the sources of the sources of thedistribution group.The company's intention is to progressively return to the 25.900 employees affected by the ERTE, depending on the lifting of the restrictions.

In this way, the company can completely open throughout Spain without surface restrictions and with a capacity limited to 40% and preferred schedule for the elderly after passing to phase 2 Madrid, Barcelona and some areas of Castilla y León when the markers are fulfilled.

On May 25, date on which phase 2 started in some areas of the Spanish geography, El Corte Inglés has already reincorporated half of the employees affected by the ERTE, about 13.000, in the establishments located in these areas.

The temporary employment regulation file, presented on March 25, affected almost 29% of the group's total staff, which amounts to just over 90.000 employees.

Specifically, 22 were affected.000 workers from El Corte Inglés department stores, 2.000 employees de la cadena de moda Sfera y 1.900 travel employees El Corte Inglés.

The English Court had opened its establishments in Madrid, Barcelona and some areas of Castilla y León, as collectedtwo meters between clients and priority care for over 65 years.

In addition, the English Court can also open in the areas included in phase 2 its own coffee shops with consumption in the premises only for table or carry service, since restoration operators outside the group will implement their opening based on theirprotocols.

Total reopening of Sfera

Likewise, El Corte Inglés will open on Monday, also without surface restrictions and with a capacity.

Last week, the English Court and CC unions.Oo., UGT, FASGA and FETICA reached an agreement for the maintenance of employment and to boost family conciliation, which also includes measures to enhance training and increase temporary initiatives of flexibility and operability.

Specifically, it contemplates the possibility that employees can perform a different activity than usual, either in another area or in another center other than the current.In any case, El Corte Inglés undertakes to compensate for compensation for commissions.

Security measures

In accordance with the established regulations, all centers will have a limited capacity and the use of masks will be mandatory.In addition to hydroalcoholic gel at the entrance and in various parts of the establishment, vinyls on the ground have been installed remembering the need to keep the personal distance of two meters, as well as biological screens in boxes, information points and counter.

Likewise, the use of elevators will be reserved for people with reduced mobility, with baby carts or with purchase cars, and the number of occupants will be limited to one person for every 2 square meters of useful surface in the cabin.

Along the same lines, there will be indicators to inform in case the capacity of the center or the plant reach the maximum permissible, and specialized security personnel will carry out periodic counts of the occupation of each plant and section, regulating the accesses if necessary.

The returned products will be subjected to hygienization by means of DS-38 steam ironing, exposure to ultraviolet-C light, or other valid formulas, duly accredited, and the bags in which the customer returns the garments will be destroyed and the disinfected hangers.

In the testers, the distances of 2 meters will be maintained, so there will be no open probators, and the space to form an ordered tail with distance of 2 meters will be organized.

In addition, an employee will control entries and exits cleaning each cabin after use;All pavement and wall surfaces are smooth and easy to clean and disinfection.

The garments used in the tester and not sold will be subjected to hygienization by steam, exposure to ultraviolet-C light, or other valid and duly accredited formulas.

Also to guarantee safety, the use of shoes and hats will be mandatory when the customer wants to try them, as well as disposable covers in mattresses and sofas being necessary periodic cleaning.

In perfumery, the products will not be tested directly on the customer and the exhibitors of samples will be protected, and in jewelry and sunglasses, the product will be cleaned every time a customer is tested.

In the supermarket, the already implanted preventive measures will be maintained.Thus, for example, home shipping baskets are included in disinfection programs, as well as store cars and baskets.

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