Shopping centers (shopping malls) reopened their doors on Monday, May 11, but most of the stores within the shopping malls have not been opened yet.
Speaking to Sozcu.com.tr, the President of the Shopping Centers and Investors Association (AYD) Hüseyin Altaş and the President of the United Brands Association Sinan Öncel evaluated the picture that emerged with the reopening of the shopping malls.
Huseyin Altas
420 OF 436 AVM OPENED
Altas, 436 shopping centers across Turkey from 420’s (96 percent) currently is open, said the rest of the first to open in June.
Many of the malls have been opened, but the majority of the stores within the malls have not opened their doors yet. He stated that 40 percent of Altaş stores opened their doors and that most of them planned to open them on June 1 to avoid curfews due to curfews and festive holidays.
Stating that the rate of opening was lower in ready-to-wear stores, Altaş stated that especially the cosmetics, children’s clothing and sports products stores were opened more intensively in shopping malls, except for the markets and pharmacies that were open before 11 May.
In normal times, before the outbreak of the number of people entering the shopping center one day in Turkey 6.5 million was 11 on Monday, May that the transfer of 1 million 226 thousand entries Altas, and expressed that in normal compared to 40 percent the level of the average turnover of the stores opened.
NO STANDARD REGULATION ON RENTALS
Providing information about the rent payments of the stores in the shopping malls, Altaş said, “We did not receive any rent in March and April, and this month we do not. As of June, each shopping mall will make separate arrangements, and some shopping malls will reduce the rents compared to the turnover ”.
Sinan Oncel
On the other hand, BMD President Sinan Öncel said that the rate of the stores opened in the shopping malls was only 20 percent, a very limited number of shops were opened, and the number remained in the 20-30s in a shopping mall with 200 stores.
Stating that most of the stores expect the number of cases to decrease and normalization steps to be taken, Öncel stated that they plan to make a decision to index the turnover in the rents and close many shops if there is no displacement in the first months, and demand that they want convenience.
