Three thieves are set to celebrate a good Christmas after breaking into a gourmet butchers and making off with the entire stock of a half a ton of speciality meats, including deer, pheasant and wild duck. The crooks also stole several bottles of vintage wine after breaking into the store room in Vienna’s posh Naschmarkt. […]
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P&C opening challenges H&M
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Peek & Cloppenburg (P&C) will narrow the gap to market leader Hennes & Mauritz (H&M) when it opens a new store in the heart of Vienna, a market analysis company has explained. RegioPlan said today (Tues) P&C’s share in the domestic fashion sector will improve thanks to the German company’s new 11,800-square-metre store in the […]
Teen robbers’ lake getaway flops
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Two would-be robbers tried to escape the police by leaping into one of Europe’s largest lakes. The duo aged 14 and 16 were caught red-handed during an attempted break-in at a shop in Bregenz, Vorarlberg, last night (Mon/Tues). They initially managed to run away and tried to outrun the officers by jumping into Lake Constance […]
Baumax upholds EE focus
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Tools and DIY equipment chain Baumax continues its expansion in Eastern Europe (EE).The Klosterneuburg-based firm opened a store in Pleven, northern Bulgaria, yesterday (Weds). The 12,000-square-metre shop is the firms fifth representation in the country.Baumax is active in nine European countries. Around 10,700 people are employed in its 152 shops of which 67 are located […]
A woman faces losing custody of her daughter after the four-year-old walked into a shop while she had a nap.Staff at the supermarket in Steyr, Upper Austria, calmed down the child after spotting her crouching and crying in a corner this morning (Mon). The employees managed to track down her mum whose house is […]
French teens exposed as thieves
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Ten young Frenchmen are facing theft charges in Austria.The group of young men aged 17 and 18 were spotted stealing fashion items from a sport equipment store in Saalbach-Hinterglemm, Salzburg. Police searched their lodgings at the ski resort after being informed about the crime yesterday (Weds). They discovered the stolen items, around 70 grams of […]
Robbery victim collapses and dies
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An elderly Viennese man collapsed and died after he was mugged in a shop yesterday (Weds).Supermarket staff and paramedics failed to resuscitate the 63-year-old who passed out after getting worked up and panicked about his wallet being stolen by a man while he did his shopping at the store in the Alsergrund district.Reports have it […]
Police in Vienna are investigating after a popular city centre department store was evacuated due to a bomb warning yesterday afternoon (Weds).Around 700 shoppers and staff were asked to leave the nine-storey Steffl store after a male voice warned its managers office of a bomb in the building in a phone call around 5pm.Police, who […]
Furniture megastore chain XXXLutz bosses have described the firms upcoming expansion to Sweden as an “emotional highlight”.The Wels-based company will open its first shop in the homeland of global market leader Ikea next month. Around 300 staff will find work in the 25,000-square-metre store in the southern city of Malmo from 4 November.Thomas Saliger, the […]
First Adeg petrol station shop opens
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Adeg has started operating its first petrol station shop in Austria.The Pein Energy station store in the Styrian town of Mureck offers around 1,000 products from the chains range. Shop manager Susanne Pein claimed most products were “almost as cheap as in supermarkets”, adding that her shops big benefit was its longer opening times. The […]