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I did not know that Jellies CBD, that is jelly with cannabis oil known as cannabis gummy, are sold without age restrictions at the kiosks in Greece and apparently Greek health authorities didn’t know that either or had not regulated accordingly to protect children. Cannabis gummy will no longer be …

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Summer sales in Greece will begin on Monday, July 10, 2023, and will last until Wednesday, August 31, the Hellenic Retail Business Association said on Monday. On Sunday, July 16, stores will be open throughout the country from 11 am to 8 pm. “During both the sales and the opening …

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Winter sales in Greece are scheduled to start on Monday, 9 January 2023 and will run until 28 February 2023, the Enterprises and Retail Association (SELPE)  announced on Monday. The SELPE added that the first Sunday of the winter sales, namely 15 January, the commercial shops will be open throughout …

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Greek Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias raised the issue of WWII reparations for the Nazi occupations of Greece and asked his German counterpart Annalena Baerbock to halt exports of submarines to Turkey. At a meeting of the two top diplomats in Athens on Friday morning and during joint statements, Dendias said …

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Mid-season sales are to be abolished, according to a draft law submitted by the Development and Investments Ministry to the Parliament. Once mid-season sales are abolished stores can offer special discounts throughout the year on more than 50 percent of the items they have on sale. The following periods are …

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Mid-season sales kick off in Greece on Tuesday, May 3 and customers must no longer show a Covid-Pass such a vaccination  or recovery certificate or a negative Rapid test to enter retail shops for their purchases. Mid-season sales run until May 15, 2022, and retail shops will be open also …

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The mid-season sales for retail shops will begin on Tuesday, May 3, and shops will have the option to open the following Sunday, on May 8. In a statement,, the president of the Athens Traders’ Association Stavros Kafounis expressed his members’ objections to the institution of mid-season sales: “Expressing the …

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Mid-season sales in Greece kick off on Monday, November 1, and will run for two weeks, until November 15, 2021. Stores will be open also on Sunday, November 7, from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. On Friday, there will be offers in the context of Black Friday and on Monday …

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The upcoming cold front has forced the Greek government to allow supermarkets to sell several items, before citizens freeze as the lockdown has shut down retail stores. With a special decision, the Development Ministry will allow the sale of products such as blankets, radiators, coats and slippers The new modified …

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Retail stores will be closed on Sunday, November 1, due to new pandemic measures in Greece and Autumn Sales will kick off a day later,  the General Secretariat for Trade and Consumer Protection of the Ministry of Development and Investment announced on Thursday. “Due to the emergency measures taken to …

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“Greece is currently the destination with the highest sales for our company,” the head of the new Thomas Cook, Alan French, told Greek state-run news agency amna on Monday. French invited the cooperation of Greek hoteliers and tourism companies. Free from the financial burdens of the past, the company announced …

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November sales have been launched in Greece and will remain in effect until November 10th 2018. On Sunday, November 4, shops will be open from 11 o’ clock in the morning until 6 o’ clock in the afternoon, whereas multi stores will remain open until 8 o’ clock in the …

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Lockheed Martin hosted a grant ceremony to celebrate its first completed F-35 Joint Strike Fighter to be delivered to Turkey. Alas! The F-35 Fighter will not be tanked and not make it to Turkey. It will remain parked in US, and Turkish pilots will have to fly there for training. …

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Mid-season sales aimed at boosting the flagging retail market will be starting in most parts of the country on Wednesday, November 1, and running for two weeks through Wednesday, November 15. According to legislation, regional authorities are allowed to determine when they want to hold the discounted shopping period, meaning …

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Shops in Greece will be open 30 Sundays per year and not just eight as it became custom in the last years of bailout agreements. However, professional associations of workers and employers react to the measure claiming the big stores will swallow the small ones. Shops will be open in …

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For the first time, Greece introduces the Black Friday shopping although the country does not celebrate Thanksgiving. However, in Greece of the economic crisis, boosting sales and private sector revenues is the A and O of an economy that has been stagnating for the last 6-7 years. Therefore, we imported …

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Greece raised 3 billion euro at 4.95% yield from the 5-year bond, Greek media report on Thursday,  short after the sale was concluded. “The success is beyond expectation” media comment noting that the bids submitted by 550 traders were over 20 billion euro. The deals book closed at 11:30 a.m. …

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That’s a bad Halloween trick for the half a million Greek retail workers. As the collective bargain expired and the Troika forbids a new collective bargain, they are threatened with wages cuts reaching from -35% up to -55%. Employers will be glad to force their employees to sign individual employment …

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This seems to be a day with lots of economy news. Bad news. Then the recession is digging deep in our lives. It’s just that the official data confirm our daily experiences. Greek Statistics  ELSTAT released data showing a decline at double-digit rates in sales and turnovers in retail trade. …

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