The situation has deteriorated significantly since Covid. “We lost our tourist clientele with the Covid, they never really returned. We also lived thanks to the large companies – banks, insurance companies – which had their head offices in town. Their employees came at lunchtime. But, with teleworking, they no longer come”continues the Tollet heir. Who is very angry with the Brussels public authorities.
“After Yvan Mayeur, we had Philippe Close… They screwed up Brussels“, continues Didier Tollet. In question: “dirt, insecurity, drugs… This had a direct impact on our turnover. The city center has become impoverished, there is no longer any customer base for a store like that in the center of the capital. When we suggest to our customers in our Waterloo or Woluwe Shopping stores that they go into town to find this or that brand, they all answer: “Ah no, we’re not going down to town.”
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