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The “revised guide” will be released tomorrow after a controversial weekend in Wales over the decision to ban supermarkets and other shops from being open during the “firewall” blocking of the sale of “non-essential items”.
The Government of Wales had said today, Monday 26 October, that it planned to speak to the retail sector about the policy, which was announced last week.
Tonight, a government spokesman confirmed that those talks had taken place and that tomorrow, Tuesday, October 27, there would be news about the changes.
A spokesman for the Government of Wales said: “Ministers have had positive discussions with representatives of the retail sector this evening. The revised guide will be published tomorrow. “
There has been widespread criticism of the non-essential sales ban since it was announced on Thursday, October 22, just one day before Wales, when it entered its two-week lockdown aimed at reducing coronavirus cases in Wales.
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The intention was to prevent stores from selling items such as clothing during closure when other retailers that only sold those items would be forced to close because they were not selling food.
However, the short notice was criticized with Sara Jones, director of the Welsh Retail Consortium, saying: “This last minute guide, while welcome, falls short of providing the level of certainty that our companies need to manage and implement what they it is becoming expected of them. “
On Friday, stores were very busy sealing and plugging aisles selling products that the Welsh Government deemed non-essential.
But there were protests against the policy over the weekend, with one man filmed seemingly ripping all the covers that prevent people from buying non-essential items, and another man visiting a store only in his underpants to complain about the ban on the sale of clothing.
More than 24,000 people have signed a petition asking the Labor administration to reconsider this rule.
There was also controversy after a Tesco employee mistakenly told a customer that the products of the time could not be sold because they were not essential items, before it was revealed that an aisle selling the products had been blocked due to a Stole.
And a sign apparently mistakenly placed on the shelves with baby formula added added to the confusion.
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