Tag Archives: Sunday

Retail stores in Greece will open nationwide on Sunday, November 26, 2023. According to Athens Trade Association SELPE, the stores will be open from 11 a.m. until 8 p.m. It is unclear whether some supermarkets chains will follow. Stores in Greece are closed on Sunday with some exceptions on pre-Christmas …

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Black Friday on November 25 with retailers to look for revenues increase and consumers eyeing good bargain purchases ahead of Christmas. The Black Friday in Greece has turned into a Black Week, as discounts have already started in the previous week and will continue until Monday, November 28, with the …

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Retail shops throughout the country will be open on Sunday, 27 November, from 11:00 to 20:00, the Association of Retail Businesses (SELPE) said in an announcement on Tuesday. SELPE announcement comes a day after retail workers had announced that shops will not open on Sunday, Nov 27, 2022. Additionally, on …

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The opening of retail stores in a Sunday in November has turned into a Greek …thriller for frustration resistant nerves. The Development Ministry has initially decided to boost the market on Sunday, November 6, 2022. The project was cancelled due to storm EVA and decided instead that stores ill open …

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Supermarkets and retail shops may open on the two Sundays in May, on 16th and 23rd, if they wish to do so, according to a joint ministerial decision issued on Friday. The stores referred to in the decision include mini markets, butchers, fishmongers, pharmacies, dry cleaning stores, pet shops and …

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The interim sales started in Greece on May 5 and will last until May 15, 2021. Stores, supermarkets and beauty services have the option to operate also on Sunday, May 9. Τhe stores to open on Sunday will operate from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Hairdressers and personal hygiene services …

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Wine producers from the Aegean islands will present their wines to a wide audience of wine lovers and professional in downtown Athens on Sunday, October 21, 2018. Organizers of the wine tasting event are the regions of North and South Aegean and regional wineries. Visitors will have the possibility to …

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Extended Winter sales aiming to boost the retail market start in Greece on Monday January 8th 2018 and will last until 28 February. According to the legislation, retail shops may open also on the first Sunday of the Winter sales, on January 14th from 11 a.m. to 08:00 p.m. Retailers …

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Stores remained closed and workers and shopkeepers  marched through the streets of Athens protesting the introduction of Sunday opening for shops. The provision to open stores 30 Sundays per year is part of the additional austerity deal Greece signed with creditors beginning of the week. The protest occurs on the …

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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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A crucial – the most crucial – meeting between Greece and its creditors is taking place Sunday afternoon in Brussels. Greek delegates are to meet the representatives of the three Institutions IMF, EU, and  the EFSF for a so-called “final effort” to reach an agreement on the Greek debt problem. …

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I am afraid you will not be able to go shopping next Sunday, July 13th 2014, as retail workers will launch a 24-hour strike. Retail workers will strike in order to protest the opening of shops on 52 Sundays per year in 10 selective cities. Strong reactions come also from …

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The cities and areas where shops will be open 52 Sundays of the year have been published at the Greek Official Gazette. Among the cites and areas are the historical center of  Athens and Thessaloniki,  Chalkidiki, Rhodes, Kos, Syros, Mykonos and Santorini but also Pikermi and Rafina in Attica Prefecture. …

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The first wave of exit polls has been announced at 7 o’clock Sunday, May 25th 2014. The first wave of exit polls refer to European Parliament Elections and Attica Region. “The error margin is +/-2,” a pollster said to state NERIT TV. Live blogging continues below the exit poll results. …

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Mid-season sales began in Greece today, Friday, May 2nd and will last until May 10th 2014.  Sunday, May 4th, retail shops will be open from 11 a.m. until 8 p.m. It is the second time that mid-season sales take place additionally to summer and winter sales. The measure meets the …

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With the ghost of bankruptcy hunting them Papademos coalition government leaders agreed on four key issue – “basic points”- on the Troika’s demand that will create nothing more than a deeper recession and will crack down the backbone of the Greek economy with wages equal those of a third world country. After …

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