Bergamo, the crisis in via Sant’Orsola By the end of the year, goodbye to four shops

Via Sant’Orsola risks becoming the symbol of the crisis of trade in the city center. In two hundred meters of road, four shops will close by the end of the year and as many lockouts are ventilated. Shopping centers, online shopping, paid parking also on Sundays and the crisis that still hits hard. Clothing, footwear and accessories are the most tested sectors. But by now no one is free, with the exception of "food", even in the shopping streets. "Save my bag" sold trendy bags. He lowered the gate and chose to limit himself to online commerce, as the sign posted in the window reads. They also close «M&M», a historic men's clothing store, which is liquidating all the goods at 70%, and «Andros», men's clothing. "I have no choice, I will stop here – explains Pierangelo Fioretti, the owner -. Business has fallen and there is rent to pay. I had received an offer from a textile company that was looking for a point of sale but it did not go through. How do I live it? As a defeat, even if I have reached retirement age for a couple of years. Via Sant’Orsola will become a black hole in the center of this pass. In the city there are less and less boutiques and family-run shops and more and more commercial and single-brand chains ». Sponge also «Art in knit».

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