The Junta de Andalucía has reminded large supermarkets that they can’t sell products after 18.00h that are normally on sale in smaller businesses earlier. In other words they cannot indulge in unfair competition.
It also means that large supermarkets like Al Campo cannot sell clothing, for example, because clothes shops have been shut down as they sell non-essential items.
The press release confirms that they can sell food, hygiene products, cleaning product etc after 18.00h until closing at 22.00h but nothing else in the aisles during that time.
In other words, you are likely to find many shopping aisles cordoned off where the clothing and other such things are on display.
In the meantime in Motril, the Policía Local reminds shopowners that they cannot serve people at the door even if they have a prearrangement with a customer. Home deliveries are permitted but not takeaways from businesses that are not supposed to be open.
Now, this is Motril where the Policía Local spoke with Junta representatives because they had their doubts. They were told that customers cannot turn up at the door of a closed shop to retrieve items even though this had been previously arranged.
Editorial comment: this is just another consequence of this chaos – nobody is sure what they are supposed to do or not do. Does this mean that restaurants and bars can’t hand out food takeaways at the door but have to find somebody to deliver them in Motril? Does this apply elswhere along the coast.
Where is the logic that a delivery person is exposed to contact at every home he leaves purchases but a customer cannot turn up at a shop to pick something – it’s the same amount of contact. Perhaps it has more to do with stopping queues forming outside businesses.
(News: Costa Tropical, Granada, Andalucia)
I have to take my wife to Granada hospital twice a week – or better said, she has to go to hospital and is not allowed to drive. We live in calahonda. We have never been stopped. I also have to take her son to college in adra once a week, again never been stopped. Whilst I appreciate the police are “trying” but maybe they should be trying elsewhere and not camping at the supermarket. All routes in and out of the region are clear of any controls. With Granada supposedly a hot bed of contagion maybe it’s time they focus where they need to before we’re forced into another complete lock down.
On Wednesday I was stopped by Policia Local near Alcampo, I was picked to be taken to one side from a long line of cars, they wanted to see just about every document I had in the car and two of them passed them back and forth between them for about 10 minutes, then handed them back, as police forces have had ANPR cameras for years where is the need to put both myself and them at risk by such an encounter? My car is registered in Motril so I have every reason to be there. Seems to me the authorities are on one hand making rules to stop encounters by strangers whilst on the other breaking those same rules themselves.
It actually said so specifically in the BOJA, only food delivery. It says on every list they have put out, of what we can and cannot do. It’s the same in Almuñécar, and all with same status as us. I have friends who were told yesterday by the police, that they had misinterpreted it.
We’re supposed to stay at home, if it’s not absolutely necessary to go out…
As you wrote yesterday, our hospital is full, and yesterday they started transporting icu patients to Granada. We have to get the numbers of ill down now.