As a way to make shopping easier and faster for essential workers, Longtom SUPERSPAR has decided to let them skip the queue. The country is in week two of national lockdown and only essential workers are reporting for duty. Longtom SUPERSPAR is deemed as an essential store and may remain trading, operating and working during the lockdown period.

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PW Luies, part of the management at Longtom SUPERSPAR, said, “When they arrive at the door they must inform the team at the entrance. The essential worker needs to identify themselves and they will be allowed to go inside without waiting in the queue. Before going in, their hands and their trolley will be sanitized,” he explained.

According to the guidelines of the lockdown, essential workers will have to carry a permit indicating that they are classified as essential staff during the lockdown period.

Luies added that the community must avoid panic-buying during this period.

“We have enough stock in the storerooms, so they will not run out of essentials,” he said. Longtom SUPERSPAR would like to thank the community for their support and the essential workers for their good work.

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Longtom SUPERSPAR is not the only store in town that is giving essential workers this special treatment.

BLOCK: Essential services are those that, if interrupted, would endanger the life, personal safety or health of the whole or any part of the population. (Source: Commission for Conciliation, Mediation and Arbitration)