“I, personally, have not felt any impact from the crisis, but I am watching it and will watch it in the future,” the communications worker said whilst browsing in a posh Max Mara shop in Zurich. “I am still shopping and will continue to do so,” said Edith Weibel Sovilla. While recession has already turned into the nightmare before Christmas elsewhere, the Swiss are still enjoying the benefits of a five-year long boom which has added thousands of jobs and boosted wages in the already prosperous country. Retailers are rejoicing about record sales and a table in restaurants is as hard to get as a hotel room in ski resorts. Inside the tram, children listen to tales of Santa Claus, outside their parents rush from shop to shop, loaded with bags, ignoring the tales of global economic doom and gloom. A woman looks at the window of a luxury watch shop at Bahnhofstrasse in Zurich in this Decemfile photo.
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