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, Cyber Monday and open stores on Sunday
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 will open on Sunday, Nov 27, says SELPE
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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Retail stores, supermarkets open on Sunday, Nov 27, not Nov 13
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, retail shops may open on two Sundays, May 16th and 23rd
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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Mid-season sales in Greece until May 15; stores open on Sunday
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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Tasting event for Wines from the Aegean at Zappeio, Oct 21
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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Greece’s Winter Sales kick start on Jan 8th 2018
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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Shops owners and workers protest against Sunday opening
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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Professional associations react to ‘open shops on 30 Sundays per year’
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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Greece – Creditors’ Game of Nerves: It’s Now or Never?
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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Shops open on Sunday? Retail workers on 24h-strike, July 13/2014
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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Shops to open 52 Sundays per year in selected Greek cities
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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Greece EP Elections 2014 – 24% counted: SYR 26.5% ND 23.1% GD 9.3%
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 in Greece, May 2-10/2014;
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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Greek Leaders Agreed On “Basic Points” That Will Cause Deeper Recession
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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