Angers customers and stores owners already tuned on Christmas

If almost there are still two months before Christmas, streets and front sides of Angers down town have already a look of celebrations. Town hall has just hang illuminations in the streets which wait to be lighted. Only the mobile wooden huts are missing. Streets are full of people who, apparently, think to the gifts they will have to do in the weeks to come. And they are invited to question themselves by stores owners who have started to adorn their frontsides with Christmas trees onrnaments : candles, tinsels and bowls.

These are the visible part of the care Angers stores owners are preparing the end of the year, a period providing a large part of their annual turnover. According to an observer of the trade sector of Angers, the decision of the city council to prohibit openings of stores the Sundays before Christmas is difficult to understand. "The best way would have been to let the retailers to decide themselves and to let them conclude if the decision to work on those Sundays was appropriate".

So the end of the weekends of Angers will have, as always, sharp constrasts : lively on Saturdays and demoralizing on Sundays. The atmosphere is even happier now than in Christmas. Probably because streets are not disanchanted by the depressing melodies like "Petit Papa Noel", a famous French song, abyss of sadness.