Libri will close all its Budapest and countryside stores on December 24 this year. The country's market-leading bookseller joins an exemplary initiative and provides its employees with a day off on the last Sunday before Christmas so that they can celebrate with their families more calmly.

"In trade, and therefore also in the book market, the one or two months before Christmas bring the most traffic, so the workload is heavy on the employees at this time," the company's announcement quotes CEO Péter Kovács.

- Libri pays particular attention to the intellectual enrichment of its colleagues. As a company selling books, i.e. offering our customers quality pastime, we could not do otherwise.

In the period before December 24th, the Libri stores are of course waiting for customers with their usual opening hours, and it is also possible to purchase reading materials online. The bookseller asks readers to plan their purchases in time to make sure the Christmas presents arrive under the tree.

As we wrote, many other Hungarian chain stores have already decided to join the call of and be closed on Christmas Eve. Lidl was the first to start the line , on December 24th it will keep all its stores closed, and Rossmann , Penny and Mountex . Most recently OBI and XXXLutz announced that their stores are closed, and the Diego furniture store also announced that they will not open, and they are also closed on the last day of the year.

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