Germany is out shopping!

Today I took once again a long walk on one of the shopping streets here and I must say that I was astonished by the quantity of people out shopping!

I did not manage to register specifically where people went but I did see plenty of shopping bags from Hollister, Primark, H&M, Subdued, Lindner was full, Saturn and Mediamarkt were full. Karstadt were stuffed with people.

Plenty of people were sitting on cafés drinking beer and eating. All the ice cream places were full. Generally a very good shopping day. It was bustling with so much life that I thought I was back in Gdansk in Poland again.

Is there an explanation for why? Do we need one? Only thing I can come up with is that maybe they had saved money for going on their three to four weeks of summer vacation. Were they had saved and calculated also money for food, restaurant etc. When they got back they realised that One: I got a salary while I was gone and since i did not go to restaurant, cinema, pub, drove my car or even went to the supermarket then I Two: Have extra money to now go shopping for.

I hope that my interpretation is wrong and that the general economy in Germany is so good that people simply buy more things. Still they should decrease that and try to save more in stocks! Which we saw in a previous article how little of that they had they had.

Weekend shoping walk

I took my longer walk in the part called Mitte in Berlin. The more precise area was from Hackescher Markt going up Rosenthaler Str. and then I continued on Torstr. and went back down on Alte Schönhauser Str. To my knowledge this area has become more and more hip with nice modern restaurant (several of them with an Asian cuisine) and also plenty of hip and fashionable stores.

Visited Shops 6/4-13

This time I went for a walk on Kurfürstendamm. This was the nicest shopping street in west Berlin and even today several of the more expensive stores are located on this street.

The shopping bags that I saw were mainly from: Nike (never walked past the store though), Karstadt, KaDeWe (actually belongs to Karstadt today), H&M, C&A, Görtz & Mango

Visited shops

Usually in the weekend I go for a longer walk and I then pass by several stores especially since I am living close to one of the shopping streets in Berlin. So the stores that were highly visited today were:

BackWerk - selling bakery things with concept that you pick it yourself and then walk over to the cashier and pay for it. Very fast, acceptable taste, they heat up on location so they have a factory bakery somewhere.