Supermarket managers in Ermelo give their take on day one of the countrywide lockdown
Mr Charles Robberts, store manager of Pick n Pay Ermelo, said: “After four days of panic-buying residents were still queuing up from the door to the parking lot this morning.”
Supermarket managers responded to residents’ buying habits during the first day of the 21-day-lockdown.
According to Mr Bilal Dendar, store manager of Devland Cash and Carry, the majority of shoppers are still buying basic necessities.
Mr Dendar said: “Normal shopping is taking place, it doesn’t feel like lockdown as some residents brought their children shopping with them.
The children should be at home for health and safety reasons.”
Mr Charles Robberts, store manager of Pick n Pay Ermelo, said: “After four days of panic-buying residents were still queuing up from the door to the parking lot this morning.”
According to Mr Robberts, shoppers are mostly buying food and hygiene products.
The floors are marked to make sure people keep a safe distance, there is a register shoppers need to fill in and sanitizers for shoppers to use at the door and till points.
Grands store manager, Mr Bilal Bhorat, said: “Residents do not have access to maize meal in Wesselton and due to the lockdown our store is unable to deliver it to them, so they come to the store.”
Mr Bhorat said, shoppers are buying the basic necessities, mostly food items.
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