Household items, plates and glasses including plastic, stationery, linen, batteries, toys: it seems to have gone back a few months ago in some supermarkets in Lombardy. And it is not a positive return, given that we are talking about the months of the lockdown and the first phase of the coronavirus. Barred aisles, “cordoned” shelves with red and white ribbon and a clear sign: “We inform our kind customers that according to the order 623 of the Lombardy Region of 21 October 2020 it is not possible to purchase the products present in this area on on Saturday and Sunday “.
The signs appeared in the Esselunga chain stores – which specifies that, as per the ordinance, this applies only to large retail surfaces -, in those of Coop Lombardia, and in many other markets and hypermarkets: because in the order signed a few days ago by Governor Fontana, who closes shopping centers on weekends, it is explicitly stated in article 2 that “On Saturdays and Sundays, the closure of large sales structures as well as retail businesses inside the centers is ordered The provision referred to in the previous period does not apply to the sale of foodstuffs, food and products for pets, cosmetic and personal hygiene products, home hygiene, plants and flowers and related accessory products, as well as to pharmacies, parapharmacies, tobacconists and monopoly resales “. Therefore, for all other categories, the sale is prohibited.
Coronavirus, in supermarkets the purchase of notebooks, markers and linen is banned: “They are not basic necessities”
Sara Bennewitz
March 16, 2020-
During the months of the lockdown, supermarkets and shopping centers had blocked the sale of all these items – for the whole week, not just on weekends – because according to national provisions all non-food and non-essential stores were completely closed. So, to avoid “unfair competition” to small businesses forced to lockout, the sale of many items – markers and notebooks for children locked up at home, sheets for printers that went in a continuous cycle for self-certifications – had been banned in supermarkets and shopping malls to reduce shopping times and avoid crowds, and therefore the only market was the online one. From now until at least November 13 – provided that the government Dpcm does not change everything yet – to buy plastic plates and socks in supermarkets you will have to remember to do it from Monday to Friday: and who was in the supermarket today, on Twitter and Facebook, not he failed to point out his disappointment.
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