I had an email today from Sainsbury telling me that over 70's will be able to shop for the first hour of opening on Thursday march 19th, and asking that we who are under 70 years old understand this is necessary
I'm very pleased that is happening , but it also states, quote..
To help us get more essential items onto the shelves, from this Thursday 19th March, we will be closing our cafes and our meat, fish and pizza counters in supermarkets. This means we can free up warehouse and lorry capacity for products that customers really need. It will also free up time for our store colleagues to focus on keeping the shelves as well stocked as possible. end quote
Tesco 24 hour supermarkets have now started closing at 10pm and not reopening until 6am, to give them a chance to restock until the foreseeable
future . Apparently the staff will not lose any pay during this time...