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document trees. subscribe. now. second name, treat the a day goes bars kiosks and corner stores. people in germany visit them almost every day, often on their way to or from work. and then there's like a little family here, so i'll give you the feeling good inside. or you don't have company like this at home. it's here. places for social interaction are more important than ever. more and more people in germany are feeling isolated and lonely. society seems to be splintering affility, growing to the small shops, bill, community. what challenges do they face the

in berlin? the convenience store has become something of an institution. of germany's capital is filled with over a 1000 that the small shots, off and on every corner. they offer the basics of daily life and often, much more to check on the lute has run his convenient store for 4 years. he's well known and well liked in the neighborhood. dropping off the lights. we also do a bit of social work for the people in the neighborhood in teats. berlin's convenience store concept originated in the former east germany. the idea was to give workers on the night shift a chance to pick up a few necessities on the way home. to injure keeps his store open until 2 am on weekdays, and 3 am on weekends. supermarkets in germany, austin, close at 8 or 10 pm and are closed on sundays time. the

shopkeepers always get the short end of the stick. they sometimes work 1415 or 16 hours a day. many convenient stores offer more than just drink snacks and cigarettes. their owners have to stay flexible to get by. so they keep finding new ways to make money. as, as more post office is closed in germany and mail order shopping gross offering, postal services can bring in some extra income. because if you'd, i'd like, did you get about $30.00 to $40.00 euro cents per package is for depending on its size, weight, and where it's going from about 30 to 40 percent of postal customers also pick up something else. so it pays off. but davosto business by itself wouldn't pay off the pulse visit. how's it going? hey, this is the best man. the best man here. though, you may call him uncle on the streets of this year to find you always made friends

here in lots with them. that's what i love so much about this place tests. well, this time it has a home, a lot of you know, all the employees and they know you say you end up talk in the motions. could you please let me know if you want a late night snack? you just pop in here who? beverage sales, especially beer, are crucial to the convenience store survival where we got the new merchandise today. our shop is known for having over 250 brands of beer, b, as all a chilled beer after work was what these stores offered in east germany to. in the summer, they almost turned into pubs or bundled. so if you're on your way to a party, you might grab another one for the road. i don't know if i'm new or people gather outside and sometimes 3040 or even 50 people even in winter when it's freezing. people come in for a bottle of beer, not always because they're thirsty. send that so it's uh, it's

a social occasion. i believe. you mean people sometimes really nice people when i just wanted to tweak dream before the party, what they're doing now, things like that. want to know the speaking there, everyone in the neighborhood depends on to and you a couple of in his team. but my lady missed it some time like kindly i want to go home. but i can no, just people want to chat here, hear them. they come here, we have problems in maybe with their partner, the kids or the neighbors, the phone and they just need to talk it out to kids. what am it that that's why or do you come to the yeah, what about the little said medium? it happens all the time. well does kind of, that's what i think it's the same at other convenience stores. thank you by the non speed is getting all the the kiosk, also known as a refreshment stander. snack bar is the counterpart to the convenience store in

many western german cities. many people have childhood memories of them. their numbers are dropping by thousands of kiosks are still open in the region. one source for raji divided his dark min kiosk into sections. these are these, those are the german side. the other side is the persian side to how much them by on weekends, one side does better do usually because of a soccer game thing and food, sometimes on the family from the home country shows. i mean, the, the other side does better. these items. one sort for raji is from iran. he's had his shop for 10 years. 3 years ago he added a persian delicacy section and made his kiosk a hub for cultural exchange. give it me this was it was i enjoyed selling things from our culture take how many people don't know much about us and then many people mix up our countries. i'm thinking that iran is a rocky dock of many 100. 20. don't know about our country. all we can do is i want to show our country and culture to as many people as i can to,

to buy that will take time. it won't happen over night. i to speak 2 or 3 years aren't enough. i voice off more need besides the past week. so excuse me. i've got customers. he works and just over 20 square meters of space. one story is proud of his selection of over $360.00 items and his customers like them to of the place. yeah, this gets since he has everything i can get take on fridays. i can get groceries every thing. i come here a lot because the atmosphere is very friendly. it's nice. there's always something new. always something to try out once a year, months or travels to around to checking the merchandise and suppliers. he knows he'll never get rich from his business. no matter how much work he puts in new want to have you. i only take mondays off because i work 12 hours a day. we're open every day from 10 am to 10 pm,

all i only take short vacation. yeah, i can't close for more than a week or 4 or 5 nights because people wouldn't accept that at least these days. most kiosks are run by immigrants like months or he lives right next door. sometimes his daughter comes by after school. he feels close to many people in the neighborhood shepherd feel i deal with lots of people up kids under 10 by chewing gum gummy bears and other things i was asking cuz then there are the 70 to 80 year olds for many cultures. to know, i bought some foreigners, i recognized as neighbors, isn't a doctor's engineers and so on. educated people and school children, the college students. that's what i like most. and i'm just having contact with so many people and i enjoy coming to work every day for michigan. so all right, so see ologist paul, eyes of age knows why kiosks, corner shops and snack bars are so important. the confirm to in their basic function is simple, the convenient shopping nearby. this was especially true for chaos. some of the

past before the internet or television also was these were places that traded in information about email for newspapers, of course, but also the gossip exchanged between the sellers and customers and views. and he's often amazed at how flexible kiosk owners can be. they have to constantly adapt their offerings to meet change in times, needs and taste of the i'm invited to is this, the business is always under pressure from delivery service, online shopping and supermarkets for longer hours. pipe in the home or this is altima. someone's eat this doesn't support and to each of our so the conditions for the business or terminal to the end of the month. and that presents a real challenge from the moment i also the homeless the rear regions kiosks have even been declared and intangible world heritage like the kiosk and the convenience store. germany's pub for another hubs for daily social interaction. people usually come here after work,

but between 20122022. the number of pups in germany dropped by about 30 percent upon the evening investment in the past. the crowded pub on friday night was the rule. now it's more an exception. when that happens, just once a month have been open for half an hour and the pub is packed. i don't think it will slow down. don't say enjoy a word to spread and people are coming from other villages. that's great. that's true. just as we imagined that customer with a population of about 3000 isn't through india and eastern germany. york foster, which was born here and he wants to see a lively community. he's also president of the soccer club. we haven't seen them. we used to have 8 puds. now we have none of them and it's the same. and the surrounding towns almost on the disappearance of pubs, especially in rural areas, is a big problem. installation covered a shortage of workers. there are many causes as far as last pub closed in 2022.

it's missed by many looking for a solution. local people came up with a new idea. now, the former in some goldman lives and comes back to life once a month. 15 people teamed up to launch the best my pub, the scene initially. they do all the work themselves on a voluntary basis. outcomes time on theaters, my divide up the jobs differently each time, depending on who's available. serving customer, supporting beers help washing up or helping in the kitchen. and there's all the prep on thursday and the clean up on saturday. so we're back here early in the morning at 9 o'clock. which might have held 20 to pop the evening since 2023. some gardening lives and opens for business every last friday of the month of august, the address it was important for it to be an event that happens once a month or something that would work for everyone. something everyone could look

forward to discuss the 2 things more life and togetherness to the town. since we don't have a real problem anymore, it's nice to have one every 4 weeks. it's really nice. it's a feeling of togetherness, and it's fun for us because they don't have company likes us at home. it's here. and what did they talk about? not politics that would go in the wrong direction. it doesn't belong here. ultimately we come here to forget our d. o, teens. that's for chess, unless we don't argue here, that's the important part of differences of opinion. but in the end, everyone comes together with everyone working. it's all in tears in the town, providing the space. the drinks costs very little. that helps bring people together . the prices and regular

pods are relatively high beer costs 4 to 5 year olds. these the partly because of payroll costs. so id, um, you know, that's a nice question. did you get your thoughts were selling drinks for 2 years and people really appreciate that. and you're not the best mark pub evening. it's a huge success now to neighboring towns are adopting the volunteer run pub concept . i used to use those. i saw you just do it for the front of it because it's our town. and because i live here, it's not a burden, we enjoy it. and that's what makes it so nice. the not very comfortable. i'm just really expensive, not to redesign. so alice's space working out the space cross it's,

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