The evolution of the proportion of inactive retail merchants 7 offers another angle from which to measure the economy's recovery process. As the last chart shows, the percentage of merchants with no transactions registered on their CaixaBank POS terminals rose to 73%. This figure shows the extent to which the lockdown measures forced a large number of businesses to close their doors to the public. Nevertheless, with the gradual lifting of those measures, businesses reopened and this percentage fell. With data up to the fourth week of June, the percentage of inactive CaixaBank POS terminals was 7% above the pre-crisis level.