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– With stores open on multiple holidays during Christmas, you can reduce large purchases and pressure on stores before Christmas. The prolonged selling time of alcohol in stores and in liquor monopolies could lead to further reduction in pressure, writes FHI in the recommendation that has been prepared together with the Norwegian Health Directorate on behalf of the government.
Extended opening hours are especially proposed to avoid major purchases before long weekends.
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Expanded measures related to holiday shopping will be particularly important in areas with increasing and high risk of infection, and a local general assessment of what measures are needed should be made, they say.
The document is dated November 30, but was first posted on the FHI website on Wednesday.
FHI also believes that store owners must take responsibility for facilitating distance between customers and that allowing more than there is space should be avoided.
– For shopping centers, a strategy should be prepared for the entire center, including common areas. Consideration should be given to having guards to ensure recommendations are followed, writes FHI.
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Consideration of risk groups
Stores should also avoid having offers that allow many customers to meet in the same location at the same time.
It is also proposed that risk groups have their own hours in which they are invited to trade, without the presence of other customers.
– Events such as concerts and the like, which bring many people together in one place, should be avoided. Stores and malls planning pre-Christmas events must comply with local and national regulations and event tips, writes FHI.
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These are the proposed measures:
- The store owner should take responsibility for arranging for customers to keep their distance, both within the store, at the mall, at the parcel counters and possibly also outside the store premises if customers have to queue.
- Avoid leaving more space than there is in the room, so that everyone can stay at least 1 meter away from others in the room. In areas with high risk of infection, it may be relevant to recommend a distance of 2 meters, and consider setting the maximum number to, for example, one client per 4 m².
- For shopping malls, a strategy should be prepared for the entire center, including common areas. Consideration should be given to having guards to ensure recommendations are followed.
- Feel free to arrange online shopping or other solutions for product delivery.
- Consider extended opening hours to avoid many customers meeting at the same time.
- Avoid offers that cause many clients to show up at the same location at the same time.
- To avoid major purchases before long weekends, consider extending opening hours at grocery stores and wine monopolies.
- Inform clients about staying home in case of illness.
- Encourage customers to buy at times when there aren’t many other customers in the room.
- Encourage customers to plan the trade in advance, do not go into larger groups in the store and preferably only one or two in the family are in charge of the trade.
- Provide good hand hygiene in the room.
- Take risk groups into account, for example by setting times when they are invited to come without the presence of other customers, but then the number of customers must be limited so that it can be arranged at a distance of at least 2 meters.
