Some 80% of the traders believe that the attendance remains lower than before the crisis of the coronavirus, indicates Monday, the Union des classes moyennes (UCM) after consulting with hundreds of professionals in Wallonia and Brussels. "The situation in the shops remains worrying," the organisation points out.

The UCM has asked independent traders and entrepreneurs active in the fields of the equipment of the house and of the person, the horeca, the food and the care of the person in order to know their state of mind in the wake of the health crisis.