Advice outlines in guidelines for the reopening of the economy feature strict measures to ensure the safety of customers and retail workers. Businesses are being asked to limit access to changing rooms as well as regulating the number of customers allowed in the store at one time.
Retail bosses may also need to hire security personnel to ensure the guidance is being followed at the entrance and that customers are keeping the safety distance of two meters between each other.
The measures were outlines buy the British Retail Consortium (BRC) and the shop workers’ union Usdaw, and it will allow shop managers to prepare themselves ahead of the expected reopening “of a greater breadth of stores”.
Advising customers to pay by card and closing the bathrooms in restaurants and cafés are measures also included in the guidance.
Asking customers to use separate entrances an exits is also recommended, as well as putting into place a one-way system like some supermarkets are enforcing.
The paper tells managers to assess the size and layout of shops to “calculate the number of customers who can reasonably follow two-metre social distancing”.
Shops are adviced to communicate with each other to allow sufficient queuing space with two-meter sections clearly marked on the pavement.
Plastic screens like the ones that are widely used at supermarket tills could also be used in other shops.
Members of the public could also ask to shop alone where possible.
Other preventive measures include having a hand sanitiser station ready for customers to use.
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“This guidance is the product of retail’s incredible efforts to adapt to exceptional circumstances.”
Paddy Lillis, Usdaw’s general secretary, added: “Non-food retail should only start trading again when expert public health advice agrees.
“However, we need to be ready and we need to make sure that the proper preparations and measures are in place.”
Some retailers have started to reopen.
More than 150 B&Q’s stores were open last weekend for the first time since lockdown was introduced, after a successful trial of 14 stores the previous weekend.
Lords Homeware on St John’s Wood High Street reopened last week and the Baby Cot Shop on King’s Road in Chelsea has started taking appointments.
The move comes as business owners have started to speculate when and how the lockdown restrictions will be eased.
The lockdown first came into effect on March 23 and was initially announced to last three weeks, but it recently got extended until at least May 7.
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2020-04-27 06:21:03Z
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