Warsaw journalists visited the same point at Jerozolimskie Avenue at least twice in March. The first time was to be present at a press conference on the second part of the Reduta shopping centre. Two weeks later they were invited to celebrate the opening of the Blue City shopping centre situated more or less opposite the Reduta. Both Foras (Reduta) and Reform Company (Blue City) went out of their way to stress that they do not perceive each other as competitors, but rather as collaborators.
H&M arguments
Hardly surprising that such declarations astonished not only journalists, since how could two large shopping centres opposite one another not compete for tenants of whom there are not all that many on the Polish market? And how could they not compete for customers who do not have very much to spend nowadays, after all? The reply of the two parties concerned is that the realities make such a situation quite possible, since the retail offers by Reduta and B