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Spätkauf
Spätverkauf, Spätkauf or "Späti" (German pronunciation: [ʃpeːtiː]) is a type of convenience shop found generally in East German cities, such as Berlin, Dresden or Leipzig, which is known to operate late at night past the usual shopping hours, often 24 hours per day.
Translating literally to 'late purchase', Spätis mostly sell alcohol and tobacco but may also sell groceries or everyday items. Some shops may also offer internet access, a postal service for retail, and usually feature small benches for clients to sit on while drinking beer. Due to the invention of mobile web, many internet cafés have since extended their range of products to function as a Späti. Most shops are run by migrant families of Turkish, Vietnamese and are a part of the culture of Berlin's local neighbourhoods known as "Kiezes". Similar kinds of shops with different regional names are found in the Ruhr area, the Rhineland, Hanover and Hamburg.
The end of Sunday openings in 2016 caused a decline in the total number of Spätis. According to the organization "Berliner Späti e.V.", about 800 Spätis had to close down since then. There are said to have been around 2000 Spätis in 2012.
The Spätverkauf was established in the German Democratic Republic in the second half of the 20th century for workers coming home from late night shifts. They were usually shops of the state-owned retail chains Handelsorganisation and Konsum. While regular shops would close at 6 p.m., Spätkaufs would be open until 7 p.m. or 8 p.m., shops in big cities could sometimes have longer opening hours. Depending on local circumstances they would either close at 18.30h or open earlier than regular shops as a Frühverkauf ("early sale"). The word "Spätkauf" had been used in West Berlin as of the 1980s. After the Fall of the Berlin Wall, the shortened term "Späti" was adopted for other stores extending regular business hours. Now, the term Späti has also come to use in some Southern German cities like Stuttgart or Munich.
In 1995 the "antipreneurial" one-man artist group Stiletto Studio,s presented LESS function IS MORE fun as a post-neoist special waste sale of interpassive design-defuncts in a so-called Spätverkauf installation by Laura Kikauka, located at a glass pavilion next to the Volksbühne Berlin, which she claimed as one of her projects of Maximalism.
Contrary to the usual practice of Spätkaufs, only flowers, print media, baked goods and dairy products may be sold on Sundays between 7 a.m. and 4 p.m., according to Berlin's Ladenschlussgessetz ('shop closing law'). Tourist offers and beverages may only be offered between 1 and 8 p.m. on Sundays. The sale of alcohol is not allowed on Sundays.
In March 2012, a Prenzlauer Berg resident reported 48 stores that violated the shop closing law to the Berlin Ordnungsamt ('Office of Public Order'). This led to several Spätkaufs being fined between €150 and €2500. One in particular, "Kollwitz 66", later drew attention with a counter-campaign by displaying the name and phone number of the person reporting the violations at the shop and also publishing it on Facebook.
In a radio interview, Berlin City Councilor Torsten Kühne stated that the Ordnungsamt must thoroughly investigate every violation of the shop closing law. Berlin's Ordnungsamt lacked the resources to do so, however.
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Spätkauf
Spätverkauf, Spätkauf or "Späti" (German pronunciation: [ʃpeːtiː]) is a type of convenience shop found generally in East German cities, such as Berlin, Dresden or Leipzig, which is known to operate late at night past the usual shopping hours, often 24 hours per day.
Translating literally to 'late purchase', Spätis mostly sell alcohol and tobacco but may also sell groceries or everyday items. Some shops may also offer internet access, a postal service for retail, and usually feature small benches for clients to sit on while drinking beer. Due to the invention of mobile web, many internet cafés have since extended their range of products to function as a Späti. Most shops are run by migrant families of Turkish, Vietnamese and are a part of the culture of Berlin's local neighbourhoods known as "Kiezes". Similar kinds of shops with different regional names are found in the Ruhr area, the Rhineland, Hanover and Hamburg.
The end of Sunday openings in 2016 caused a decline in the total number of Spätis. According to the organization "Berliner Späti e.V.", about 800 Spätis had to close down since then. There are said to have been around 2000 Spätis in 2012.
The Spätverkauf was established in the German Democratic Republic in the second half of the 20th century for workers coming home from late night shifts. They were usually shops of the state-owned retail chains Handelsorganisation and Konsum. While regular shops would close at 6 p.m., Spätkaufs would be open until 7 p.m. or 8 p.m., shops in big cities could sometimes have longer opening hours. Depending on local circumstances they would either close at 18.30h or open earlier than regular shops as a Frühverkauf ("early sale"). The word "Spätkauf" had been used in West Berlin as of the 1980s. After the Fall of the Berlin Wall, the shortened term "Späti" was adopted for other stores extending regular business hours. Now, the term Späti has also come to use in some Southern German cities like Stuttgart or Munich.
In 1995 the "antipreneurial" one-man artist group Stiletto Studio,s presented LESS function IS MORE fun as a post-neoist special waste sale of interpassive design-defuncts in a so-called Spätverkauf installation by Laura Kikauka, located at a glass pavilion next to the Volksbühne Berlin, which she claimed as one of her projects of Maximalism.
Contrary to the usual practice of Spätkaufs, only flowers, print media, baked goods and dairy products may be sold on Sundays between 7 a.m. and 4 p.m., according to Berlin's Ladenschlussgessetz ('shop closing law'). Tourist offers and beverages may only be offered between 1 and 8 p.m. on Sundays. The sale of alcohol is not allowed on Sundays.
In March 2012, a Prenzlauer Berg resident reported 48 stores that violated the shop closing law to the Berlin Ordnungsamt ('Office of Public Order'). This led to several Spätkaufs being fined between €150 and €2500. One in particular, "Kollwitz 66", later drew attention with a counter-campaign by displaying the name and phone number of the person reporting the violations at the shop and also publishing it on Facebook.
In a radio interview, Berlin City Councilor Torsten Kühne stated that the Ordnungsamt must thoroughly investigate every violation of the shop closing law. Berlin's Ordnungsamt lacked the resources to do so, however.
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