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“Do the spthat is always one of the reasons that justify the movements ». Even in the red zone and between different municipalities. Since yesterday, on the government website, this update has appeared in the list of Faqs (frequently asked questions) on blocking measures to combat the health emergency. “When your municipality does not have points of sale -specifies- or in the event that a municipality adjacent to yours presents an availability, even in terms of greater economic convenience, of points of sale necessary for your needs, movement is allowed, within these limits, they must be self-certified. ”
Previously, this was not possible. The change came after an appeal launched in “La Stampa” by Alberto Balocco, president and general director of the confectionery industry of the same name in Fossano, in the Cuneo area: “The government always authorizes the movements that are made to the food supply – he asked – avoiding the overly restrictive geographical limitations of March. We learn from the mistakes made in the first phase of the pandemic, we do not limit trade within individual municipalities. “Due to the prohibition of movement between municipalities, he emphasized Balocco, “some supermarkets a few kilometers away, with wide availability of products and spaces, become unreachable and find themselves with few customers. On the contrary, in the neighborhood shops there is a risk of long queues that cause the depletion of stocks and meetings that endanger the health of citizens.
The appeal was supported by Confindustria Cuneo and by Alberto Biraghi, general director of Valgrana balneario de Scarnafigi, president of the provincial commission for Small Industry: “We are satisfied with this official clarification in favor of citizens, who can now reach the stores even leaving the limits of the municipality without fear of heavy penalties. Also good for manufacturing industries: it helps make logistics problems less difficult for the supply of points of sale. Even more so for the chain of recurrence, a sector that already suffered serious consequences in the first blockade. Balocco thanked the government and Minister Luigi Di Maio, “who in such a complex moment has shown his closeness to the real economy.”
However, according to the provincial Confcommercio, the risk is to favor large-scale distribution at the expense of the small one. “No, only the consumers are favored,” concludes Balocco. You have to look at them, not at the individual comfort of those who have a small, medium or large store.
