Last Monday, the first day after the January lockdown, about 300,000 shoppers visited Epicenter shopping centers around Ukraine – up 50% yoy, reports the Epicenter K press service. Best sellers were household chemicals and personal care products – up 170%. “The surge in trade in the first days is quite expected, because during the three weeks of lockdown we constantly received dissatisfied feedback from customers who were not able to buy the necessary goods,” said Vladimir Goncharov, deputy director general of Epicenter K, Ukraine’s largest retailer.