Luxury stores also light up shop windows at night

The Bahnhofstrasse in Zurich is one of the most expensive shopping streets in the world. Line up door to door Fashion boutiques and luxury shops. In order to present expensive items in a useful way, many stores have well-lit windows – even at night. Has that changed in light of the electricity crisis?

After all, the Federal Council’s savings campaign has been going on for several weeks. «energy narrow. Let’s not waste it,” the Minister of Energy demands Simonetta Sommaruga. For example, citizens should shower rather than bathe and use a kettle instead of a frying pan.

Nau.ch took the test on Wednesday evening at 3:30 a.m. And it turns out: the big boutiques on the expensive Bahnhof Street still brightly light their shop windows, especially expensive fashion houses like ChanelLouis Vuitton, Prada and Burberry leave the lights on.

Only a few individual stores pull the plug – like fashion houses GucciLoro Piana, Greider and many jewelry stores.

“This is Gaga, on weekdays at night, hardly anyone goes through these stores,” says Zurich’s LB* reader Nau.ch.

The big fashion houses don’t want to talk about it.

Only Italian luxury fashion brand Loro Piana says on demand that the lights are now turned off earlier than usual. The screen is currently only lit until midnight instead of 2am. And soon it could get dark by ten in the evening. to save electricity.