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THURSDAY 27 AUGUST 2020 • ISSUE 72
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PAUL COCKS
VALLETTA retailers, still grappling with
vastly reduced sales brought about by the
COVID-19 pandemic, are divided as to
how to go about revitalising business and
attracting shoppers to the capital, Business-
Today has learned.
A number of retailers have complained
that the business community in Valletta
needs to realise that doing things "the old
way" is no longer tenable and that the men-
tality among many owners, employees - as
well as some associations - needs to change.
Speaking to this newspaper on condition
of anonymity, one retailer who operates a
luxury brand clothing outlet, said that many
outlets had pulled down their shutters and
closed shop, pulling the plug on businesses
that, in some cases, had been in operation
for decades.
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