"Never experienced a Christmas shopping with so few people"

Several SVT Nyheter have spoken to experience the Christmas shopping as much calmer than in previous years.

- There are usually quite a lot of people at these times, but now it's really calm, says Patricia Karlsson.

But the quiet Christmas shopping hits stores and restaurants hard.

- It's a disaster, I think, says Hilka Muhonen who works in a store in Södertälje center.