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Jerónimo Martins will anticipate the opening of “most of its stores” Pingo Doce at 06:30, on the weekend, due to circulation limitations, to avoid the concentration of people in the morning, as confirmed TVI with the company.
Given the circulation limitations imposed by the state of emergency on next Saturday and Sunday, and also taking into account the possibility of additional restrictions on circulation between municipalities, Pingo Doce will open most of its stores at 06:30 and will close at 22:00, trying to help avoid the concentration of people in the stores in the morning “, confirmed to Lusa an official source of Jerónimo Martins, owner of the supermarket chain.
Contacted by Lusa, the Jerónimo Martins group has not yet clarified how it intends to organize worker shifts to be able to open earlier, nor how overtime will be compensated.
At this time, we already have scheduled the opening hours of some stores until 08:00 and we are also extending the closing hours “he added.
In the early hours of Sunday, after an extraordinary meeting of the Council of Ministers, Prime Minister António Costa announced that circulation will be limited for the next two weekends between 1:00 p.m. on Saturday and 5:00 a.m. Sunday and 1:00 PM on Sunday and 5:00 AM on Monday in the 121 highest-risk counties.
The Government also decreed a curfew between 11:00 p.m. and 5:00 a.m. from Monday to Friday, from Monday to November 23, in the 121 municipalities most affected by the pandemic.
The measures affect 7.1 million people, which corresponds to 70% of the population of Portugal, given that the 121 municipalities include all the municipalities in the metropolitan areas of Lisbon and Porto.
According to the decree that regulates the application of the state of emergency decreed by the President of the Republic, which entered into force at 00:00 hours and was published in the Diário da República on Sunday night, “trips to grocery stores and supermarkets and other sale of food and hygiene products for people and animals ”.
In these establishments, the diploma says: “Other products that are available there can also be purchased”.
