In the branches of the Woolworth department store chain, customers who are not vaccinated have been able to shop again since Saturday.
"We have been doing without 2-G controls in all our department stores in Hesse since the weekend," confirmed a spokesman.
Petra Kirchhoff
Editor in the Rhein-Main-Zeitung.
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The company is thus creating facts without the 2-G rule in Hesse having been suspended by court decisions to date - unlike recently in Lower Saxony, Bavaria and Saarland.
Ministry of Economy disagrees
The company from Unna, which operates five branches in Rhein-Main, and nationwide there are around 480, uses the decisions in these countries as justification.
The federal states defined the range of basic services that would allow the vaccinated and those who had recovered to be opened without checking them, as did Hesse.
Therefore, "we no longer see any reason for further checks".
The Hessian Ministry of Economic Affairs disagrees.
The reference to the decisions of other countries is not enough, especially since the terms in the Corona regulations differ "clearly" in the wording and cannot be transferred one to one.
According to a spokeswoman, the responsible municipal regulatory authorities would have to decide on the spot whether Woolworth is part of the basic service.