The party’s trade and industry spokesperson Dean Macpherson said the confusion about what were considered “essential items” in grocery stores and pharmacies was unhelpful and should be ended. TheCapeArgus Day11ofLockdown
The party’s trade and industry spokesperson Dean Macpherson said the confusion about what were considered “essential items” in grocery stores and pharmacies was unhelpful and should be ended.
Macpherson said he would write to Trade, Industry and Competition Minister Ebrahim Patel and ask him to recommend gazetting that all stores that were open during the lockdown could sell anything that was normally in their stores. He said any item, from hygiene products to electronics, available in a retailer that was allowed to be open should be available for sale to consumers. Once existing stock had been sold out, the items should not be replenished until after the lockdown.
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