The sale of clothing and household items was reduced to its minimum expression by the end of 2021, not so in this beginning of the year. sale of drinks and prepared meals In whose businesses queues were noticed especially at night and in the busiest neighborhoods of the capital.
The fried food businesses, the chicken bites, the sale of prepared food and the nightly beverage businesses were the ones that looked the most animated during the weekend, especially on Saturday where many people by tradition woke up waiting for the dawn of January 1 of the new year.
On Saturday night, the beverage establishments from populous sectors such as Sabana P perdida, Villa Duarte, April 24, in Herrera and other neighborhoods, a large flow of people sharing drink without masks and without any authority imposing limits or physical distancing to prevent the spread of the new variant of Covid-19 (Omicron), which circulates in the country and which in recent weeks has increased the number of infections.
More than in 2020
Despite the fact that trade slowed down in the last days of 2021, the president of the National Organization of Commercial Companies (ONEC), Mario Lama, indicated that at the end of 2021 there was a rebound in trade, compared to last year.
He added that the companies affiliated to ONEC “have great hope in 2022 and in the economic recovery of the country.”
The executive director of the ONEC, Jenniffer Troncoso, corroborated what Lama said, indicating that there was a slight boost in sales this end of the year, although she pointed out that in the case of pharmacies there was a considerable increase in sales as a result of the Covid outbreak. -19 and the wave of influenza experienced by the population.
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