Quick Take — Eataly Verona: the reasons for the bankruptcy and the future of the workers

Giosuè Rossi, secretary Fisascat Cisl Verona:

What are the reasons?

There are many reasons, starting with high rent costs…

Please explain further.

The shop is in a somewhat peripheral location, opposite the trade fair, in a non-tourist area with a potential clientele that is not high spenders. Or at any rate a clientele that is difficult to retain: in the area there are several companies, some professional orders, a bank with its own canteen. For the rest it is a residential area, a bit ‘in-between’, we might say. It has nothing to do with Verona centre.

Source

Ideas on the internationalisation of Italian large-scale retail trade from the book “Le Ossa dei Caprotti” at the Stati Generali dell’Export, Milan 11 October 2024

From the missed national champion of the 1960s, with GS – Esselunga, to the multi-regional companies of today. The opportunities missed by Italian large-scale retailers in e-commerce but also in the acquisitions that foreign retailers are making instead