May 5, 2024

Athens News

News in English from Greece

Supermarkets will close for three days: when will this happen?


The postponement of May Day brings significant inconvenience to the residents of Greece. Consumers will be forced to be without supermarkets for three days and without banks for 6 days.

The postponement of the May Day holidays creates an additional non-working day for most retail establishments/shops, which means that supermarkets will also be closed. In particular supermarkets and shops won't work on Easter Day May 5th, Monday May 6th and Tuesday May 7th.

At the same time, Orthodox Easter and the postponement of May Day entail freezing banking transactions for six days, which, in turn, causes concern among citizens. IN Due to the Easter holiday and the postponement of the May Day holidays, payments and money transfers that will be registered from Thursday, May 2, will be executed on Wednesday, May 8, which is considered the next business day.

In addition, many workers are interested in the question of How will salaries be paid?and in some cases an “Easter gift”.



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