Retail has been largely closed since December – including the MediaMarkt and Saturn branches. Politicians, however, lack an open perspective. The electronics dealers no longer want to be offered that and have filed a lawsuit. Your goal is clear.

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Will MediaMarkt and Saturn soon open their doors to customers again? Electronics retailers, both of which belong to the same parent company, have also had to contend with a massive drop in sales since the lockdown at the beginning of December. Online trading is flourishing, but ordering over the Internet cannot make up for the lack of revenue from the store. This is forcing the MediaMarkt-Saturn-Holding, as the operator of the two chains, to take legal action.

MediaMarkt and Saturn are suing lockdown

As the Manager magazine was reported to the Higher Administrative Court in Münster Urgent motion filed against the closings in North Rhine-Westphalia. But the company doesn’t want to stop there, because further applications in other federal states should follow. “The factories that have been closed in Germany for more than two months are disproportionate,” argues Florian Gietl, Germany boss of MediaMarkt-Saturn-Holding. “It has been proven that the retail trade has never been an infection hotspot.”

In addition to the well-known electronics chain Other retailers are also suing the store closings in the course of the lockdown. Including Obi, the fashion retailer Breuninger and the textile chain Peek & Cloppenburg from Düsseldorf. The goal is clear: Shops open on March 8th.

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The chances of success are good

The next days and weeks will show whether the lawsuits are successful. The chances should be relatively good: In fact, politics has no comprehensible argument can deliver why Hairdressers open on March 1st and even hardware stores in some federal states allowed – other retailers like MediaMarkt or Saturn are still closed have to stay. The violates the principle of equality and creates the impression of political arbitrariness.