As the German grocery stores have read the rules....they've gone out this afternoon to let the public know the Easter-period Covid-ban-rules.
1 April: (Thursday) ALL grocery operations, pharmacies, regular stores, etc....CLOSED.
2 April: (Friday) ALL grocery operations, pharmacies, regular stores, etc....CLOSED.
3 April: (Saturday) Supermarkets open. Everything else is CLOSED.
4 April: (Sunday) Everything CLOSED.
5 April: (Monday) Everything CLOSED.
What this translate into? If you are a German and planning your weekly grocery shopping...starting on 29 March (Monday), you need to hype up shopping, and try to wrap it up by 30 March (Tuesday), because all hell will break loose on Wednesday (31 March), and this will be a hell of a mess.
The odds of adjusted and longer hours on 3rd of April (that Saturday)? It's already being discussed in some states, and the authorities will ease regulations. So your local grocery that might normally open at 8 AM and close by 8 PM? My humble guess is that most will add two to three hours. But I'd already go and predict that the 3rd will be an equal mess.
Focus laid out the story in great detail. If you can imagine the last possible shopping day before Christmas....this lock-down situation will compare easily to that.
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