Commerce, here is who opens and who closes Guide to the maze of the new decree

For the next four weeks, which could become two if the health emergency were to slow down, Lombard trade will suffer a setback. The Dpcm in force from today establishes for the regions in the red zone – Lombardy, Piedmont, Valle d’Aosta and Calabria – the suspension of retail commercial activities, with the exception of food and basic necessities indicated in Annex 23 to the decree, a list that in hindsight concerns not a few product categories. An eve of purchases Yesterday, on the eve of the lockdown, supermarkets and shopping centers in Bergamo and its surroundings registered a consistent number of presences, with customers queuing up from the early morning. Less crowded, however, the city center, already tried by a biting crisis. «We have been stormed since the opening – says the director of Oriocenter, Ruggero Pizzagalli -, the feeling is that many thought they would find the shopping center closed in the next few days. And instead a hundred of our 280 commercial activities from tomorrow (today for the reader, ed) will be able to remain open, as foreseen by the last Dpcm. To avoid the risk of gatherings we will remain open every day from 9 to 20. In the meantime, we have already turned on the Christmas lights, a sign of hope for a better future ». The Le Due Torri di Stezzano shopping center is also more crowded than a normal Thursday.

«A transversal turnout, which involved both food and other shops – explains the director Roberto Speri – the feeling is that customers are not yet clear about what will happen during the lockdown. It is worth remembering that in shopping centers from Monday to Friday the shops selling food and basic necessities will remain open, on weekends and holidays the offer is reduced as per decree. Pharmacies, parapharmacies, health centers, food outlets, tobacconists and newsstands will remain open ». What does the decree provide? The decree of 3 November suspends retail commercial activities except those expressly identified in Annex 23. Bars, pubs and restaurants, ice cream parlors and pastry shops, beauty centers, clothing and footwear stores, jewelers and all the shops that they sell products of product categories not expressly indicated. Grocery stores, bookstores, stationeries, newsagents, tobacconists, opticians, florists, laundries, barbershops, hairdressers, clothing stores, children’s footwear and toys, as well as shops selling personal linen, sports and leisure items, medical and orthopedic, sanitation, cosmetics, household appliances, computers and pet products. No impediment to home delivery. The markets are closed, except for activities aimed at the sale of foodstuffs only. The itinerant retail trade of the same product categories permitted in the shops remains allowed (not in the markets).

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