major retailers in germany major chains retail chains that have warned that if a locked on is imposed knol before christmas during the christmas shopping period that could be the end of high street shopping as we know they warn they're saying that a lot of the shopping would then be pushed into the internet sphere and the high street shops would have to close maybe that is true true drastic a warning so far the compensation that has been paid in the last couple of months to companies that have been affected has been very generous some say even too generous some restaurants for instance that have had to be closed are doing better with the compensation than they would be if they had been open so there is some. meeting some discussions some area for discussion in order to decide what exactly the compensation is going to be and again there is a dispute between the central government and the regions who's going to pay this this money in the end i think of central state will take a lot of the load but the regional states are also going to be pushed to contribute more to these compensations the p