Study: shopping main reason for crossing Czech-German border

Shopping is the main reason for the inhabitants of the west Bohemian and German border areas for the crossing the frontier between the two countries, according to a new study by West Bohemian University in Plzeň. The survey found that every other German visitor to the Czech Republic and more than two thirds of Czech visitors to Saxony came to shop. Czechs buy mostly groceries, cleaning products, cosmetics, clothes and shoes in Germany while Germans mainly come to buy fuel and tobacco products. On their shopping trips, Both Czechs and Germans spend between 50 and 100 euros on average.