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With an appointment to close at 1 pm, the number of supermarkets in the Lisbon area remained practically unchanged, between customers who maintained the habit of shopping on Saturday morning and those who “took advantage of the little confusion” and entered .
In a tour of several hypermarkets in the Lisbon area shortly after their opening, Lusa found most of the commercial establishments without queues at the door, but with customers inside.
As the hour ticked on, some markets began to have people waiting to enter, but customers guaranteed it was the usual setting for a Saturday morning.
It was not yet 9:00 am when Bruno Martins put the suitcases away and closed the trunk of the car, finishing the shopping. He told Lusa that he arrived at the Venda Nova hypermarket around 8:15 am and that “there were even fewer people than usual.”
Bruno did not change his routines for the new supermarket hours, decreed on Thursday by the Council of Ministers: This weekend, as well as the next, closes at 1:00 p.m.
Amadora’s neighbor “always shopped” on weekends in the morning, because during the week he is working.
In the queue to enter the supermarket where Bruno Martins had left, André Vinagre was waiting. The young man told Lusa that he also stops shopping for his days off, but admitted that he had to get up a little earlier than usual today. “I arrived early because they are going to close, but I understand the situation we are experiencing and these rules,” said André, who had about 15 people in front of him.
The “habit” was the reason that led María Andrade to leave home on a day of confinement. Everything that he carried in the bags could have been bought another day: “It is not a necessity,” he admitted in conversation with Lusa.
María Carvalho, on the other hand, took advantage of the “little confusion” and decided to go into a Benfica supermarket in search of fresh hake. Renovated, she always does her shopping during the week, but “today was an exception.” During the morning walk he realized that there were not many lines: “I took advantage, I took my walk, which is already given, and when I passed by I thought: this is fast,” he told Lusa.
Both in the Alvalade and Benfica neighborhoods, residents who spoke with Lusa did not notice anything unusual about the supermarkets.
Most explained that Saturday morning shopping is a necessity, as there is little time left after work during the week.
Paula Costa is one of those cases. With the pandemic, Paula changed only the hypermarkets to the mini-market: “I used to go to the supermarkets, but now I go to the place,” she told Lusa, explaining that the change was not out of fear of covid-19 but to help the local businesses. .
This exchange meant that it now has its mini market open all day, since spaces of up to 200 square meters are out of the obligation to close at 1:00 p.m.
Paula Santos was unaware that Charcutaria Susana, the Benfica mini market that she uses, would be open until 6:00 p.m. But it doesn’t make any difference either. Paula likes to do her shopping in the morning.
Who did not feel any effect of the new measures was Ivone Neves. To avoid confusion, it is during the week that Ivone replenishes what is missing at home. And always in the morning, as she was “used to since she was little.” Today was no exception.
She was taking her morning walk and she spoke with Lusa when she passed by Charcutaria Susana, where she does her shopping and meets all the workers.
In deli, customers call employees by name. You make jokes, you talk a little and, for a few moments, you even forget about the pandemic.
“It is not necessary to present again (with the new regulations) it is for our good, to see if we can get rid of this. But we already know, it is like this: some agree, others do not,” summed up Ivone Neves.
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