They can still be found in some town centres: Galeria department stores, where you can buy almost anything from winter jackets to pressure cookers, board games and groceries, and whose restaurants serve as meeting places. Eighty-three of these stores are still left—but what happens after Christmas is completely open. Many or all of them could be closed.
On October 2, Galeria again filed for insolvency at the Düsseldorf district court, its fourth filing in six years. As the WSWS has long documented, the company is being systematically plundered, dismantled and broken up step by step.
Officially, there are still 11,250 posts at Galeria, but because many sales assistants work…