Today, April 25, the festive opening hours of commercial stores begin, while on Sunday, April 28, the stores will be open.
The hours proposed by the trade associations are continuous, from 9 am to 9 pm for today and tomorrow and until 5 pm on Saturday, while for Sunday April 28 they propose that small shops operate from 11 am until 4 in the afternoon.
For its part, the Business and Retail Association of Greece proposes to its members, i.e. large stores, department stores and chain stores, to operate from 11 am to 8 pm on Sunday.
As far as the hours of Holy Week are concerned, all shops will operate continuously from 9 am to 9 pm from Holy Monday to Holy Thursday, while for Good Friday small shops are recommended by trade associations to operate from 1 in the afternoon until 7 in the evening while SELPE suggests to its members to operate from 1 in the afternoon until 9 in the evening.
For Holy Saturday, SELPE suggests opening the shops from 9 am to 9 pm, while the trade associations suggest opening hours from 9 am to 3 pm.
On Bright Sunday, Monday and Tuesday, the shops will be closed.
On Tuesday they will be closed due to the postponement of the May Day celebration.
Banks will also be closed for days, due to the Lambri holidays and the transfer of May Day.
In particular, debt payments and remittances that will be registered from M. Thursday, May 2, will be executed on Wednesday, May 8, which is considered the next business day.
It is thus foreseen that the banks will remain closed for 5 consecutive days, that is, from the Good Friday until the Tuesday of Lambri.
With information from apebe – photo: eurokinissi
