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 opening 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 Easter Sunday, Monday and Tuesday, the shops will be closed.
On Tuesday they will be closed due to the postponement of the May Day celebration.