Because Primo has left to Shanghai, Lirim and Jochanan will have to take over a part of his work and do other tasks like this questionnaire in a smaller group. It shouldn't be a big problem, because it isn't very hard work, just more time-consuming.
We went to Germany and asked the local people in front of Kaufland about their opinion on the so called "shopping tourists". We asked them questions like: If they felt exploited by the Swiss, since they don't even have to pay taxes to the German government unlike the locals.
The opinions were very diverse, some people had big problems with the Swiss and felt shame, just because it made Germany look cheap. But most of the people that were open, didn't mind at all because they knew that many Germans work in Switzerland and live in Germany and do also save a big amount of money.
Unfortunately quite a few people weren't in the mood to talk with us about this phenomena. We assume that locals feel exploited and that may be a factor why they don't want to talk about it.
But from this we learnt that not everyone appreciates the "shopping tourists", even though it isn't happening on a large scale in Waldshut compared to Konstanz or Weil am Rhein.
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