Big trade changes are coming.From tomorrow - Money.pl

Important information for customers who managed to forget that in Poland there is still a ban on trading on Sunday, that the act introducing it was sealed.The popular postal exception loses power.

From February 1, 2022.On non -commercial Sundays, stores that show that revenues from postal activities constitute 40 percent.retail revenues.This means that many known networks will close again on Sunday with the ban.This is already announced.in.Auchan, Kaufland, Biedronka and Lidl.

"From February 1, courier and postal services will be provided from Monday to Saturday and on commercial Sundays.On Sundays, non -commercial stores will be closed, while customers will be able to order shopping with delivery via the website, "Auchan told us.

In Lidl stores you will still be able to pick up or send a package.

"For the sake of the needs of our clients, we decided that Lidl Polska stores also function as post offices.The new service is performed by DHL.Thanks to this additional functionality, customers can pick up or give a package during the store's functioning hours throughout the week " - informs the network.

Kaufland - "Due to the amendment to the Act and the amount of revenues generated from postal services", as the network explains in response to our questions - will close on non -commercial Sundays those stores, which until now were open to customers seven days a week, i.e. all outlets outsideA shop in Zielona Góra at ul..Energy.

How many commercial Sundays in 2022.?

In 2022., as in 2020 and 2021., there will be only seven commercial Sundays:

The sealing act of trade on Sunday was adopted by the Sejm in September.For changes aimed in the network that used the statutory loose, pressed the "Solidarity" environment, which is the same that before 2018.appealed to introduce trade on Sunday.

The new act was therefore to eliminate situations in which stores opened on non -commercial Sundays based on exclusions provided for in the old act.Over 20 networks decided to take such a step.

In October, the amended law was signed by President Duda.The moment of entry into force of the provisions was designated on February 1, 2022.

How will the shops cross the seal?

Does it mean that we are coming back to what was right after the entry of the Trade Act on Sunday, i.e. closed doors of stores of famous chains on Sundays?Certainly in the first months after sealing, but in the end someone can again rise to the heights of creativity and risk.As we wrote in Money.pl, there is no shortage of ideas for bypassing the sealed ban.

According to Maciej Kraus, a partner in the Movens Capital fund, investing M.in.In projects from the e-commerce industry, at the beginning of the network they will probably be careful and no one will want to go ahead, but then they will test the limits.

Zero VAT for food

From February 1, 2022.reduced VAT rates will also apply.In the case of food and drinks, so far covered by a rate of 5 percent., were lowered to zero.This in turn is a change that is part of the anti -inflation shield 2.0.Zero food VAT will apply for half a year - until July 31, 2022.

Lowering VAT to food and drinks will cause a defect in a budget of an approx.PLN 2.92 billion.The government is counting - and appeals to entrepreneurs - that the prices of food products will fall, which will bring relief for the portfolio.

A few weeks ago, Prime Minister Morawiecki showed calculations and argued that Poles would save VAT to 0 percent.specific sums for food.A marriage with two children is to save in half a year PLN 336, and a pair of pensioners PLN 240 - according to the calculations presented by the head of the government.Two pensioners will gain PLN 40 a month, and in the perspective of 6 months - PLN 240.A one -man household will gain PLN 24 and PLN 144, respectively.

A childless marriage will gain PLN 41 a month, and within 6 months PLN 246.However, in the case of a marriage with two children, a VAT reduction will give a monthly savings at the level of PLN 56, which in the perspective of half a year will save PLN 336.

Will it really be like that?The trade industry can hear strong voices that zero VAT will not significantly affect prices, because the costs of operations have grown so much that this government's movement can at most slow down increases, but there is nothing to count on noticeable reductions.

- companies are pressed with a whole bunch of costs, taxes and fees and forced by trade unions with wages, which - seeing the opportunity - simply use it.This may even drive prices - said Andrzej Faliński, president of the Economic Dialogue Forum recently.

- Product production prices are up.It is difficult to require such price pressure from trading - that we lower these prices.We will definitely reduce VAT to level 0 to those categories that are now covered by 5 %.at stake, but we do not guarantee that this will reduce prices - she explained in the program "Money.This counts "Renata Juszkiewicz, president of the Polish organization of trade and distribution.

Zero VAT for food.Messages at the ticket office

The anti -inflation shield introduces one more change in trade.From February, stores will be required to place at the checkout at the facility where the sale of clear information is made that from February 1, 2022.until July 31, 2022.The rate of goods and services tax reduced to 0 percent "applies to food goods.

Omikron is testing the labor market

There is one more phenomenon that shop customers should remember.The commercial industry is one of the most vulnerable to the crisis related to the absence of employees.Last week, a record was broken in Poland when it comes to the number of people closed in homes - staying on quarantine.It's over a million people.

According to the information of the Ministry of Health.- Considering the last 30 days, the share of the omikron variant in new infections is 52 percent., and in the last seven days 63 percent - said on Friday the spokesman of the Ministry of Health Wojciech Andrusiewicz.

Almost 180,000 were made that day.Coronavirus tests, and there are more and more notifications for primary healthcare tests.

As we wrote in Money.PL, such a rapidly growing number of infections is a terrible news for the labor market, especially for those industries, where quarantine does not mean remote work, because it cannot be done from home, such as trade.At this point in the crisis that would threaten the activities of stores, you can't see.The question is what will happen in the coming weeks.