Poles prefer to buy clothes than groceries
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According to Cushman & Wakefield, in 239 modern shopping malls in 15 hugest cities in Poland as much as 230,000 sqm of area were not rented at the end of the first half of 2015. This makes only 3,3 percent of renting area in those objects.
Throughout the last five years the market changes in cities with 200,000 to 400,000 inhabitants, where the mean indicator of uninhabited area grows. The reason is the increase in trade area, weak demand for commercial space, increased competition as well as changing shopping habits of consumers.
Magdalena Frątszak, the director for the trade area department in the CBRE company, emphesizes that for some time already the groceries do not wield the main funtion in shopping malls. "Now the greatest accelerators are fashion stores. This resembles the trend of smaller amount of money spend on groceries and a bigger one spend on non-groceries," she explains.
