"The World Youth Day in Cologne has been a wonderful meeting, a new carnival without alcohol, but sales have not been good". The words of the owner of a fruit stall on the high street of Cologne summarize what the shopkeepers of the town think. "Business says the shop assistant of Life Fashion Stores, a shop that sells clothing but also crosses and rosary beads has not been good because the pilgrims have come to see the Pope and not to buy clothing". Another problem for the people of Cologne is getting around: for those who don’t have a car and have to travel by train or bus, it is really difficult". This is the complaint of a salesman of Mobilcom, a shop that sells cellular phones, which also sells a special SIM card for the WYD with 10 euros worth of calls: "Our clients are mainly locals because our line of business is telephone contracts". Instead the discomfort is not a problem for the owner of Expo, a shop that sells gadgets: "Our town is used to hosting major events he says and traffic is not an unusual problem". The shops that have done business are undoubtedly the fast foods and grocery stores. "These young people were quite hungry, especially yesterday: our sales went up, but the best thing of all was seeing so many young people animated by deep faith", says the shop assistant of a Kentucky Fried Chicken shop.
