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LAST UPDATE | 6 Jun 2020
AFTER THE GOVERNMENT’S announcement yesterday that shops can re-open from Monday, major retailers have begun to outline their plans to re-open their doors.
This morning, Penneys said it would be re-opening its stores with street access on Friday 12 June while Ikea said yesterday it would be open for business from this Monday.
Speaking to reporters this afternoon, Health Minister Simon Harris said just because shops are re-opening soon “doesn’t mean we all need to go at once”.
He said the greatest chance of keeping shops open was to adhere to all the advice on social distancing, hand hygiene and face coverings.
When asked specifically about the notion of camping outside Penneys, Harris said: “I don’t think it seems like a good idea. I hope people wouldn’t need me to tell them that.
There’s no need to camp outside the shop. If it opens on Friday, let’s hope through all of our work it’ll be open on Saturday… It’s not like shops are open for one day only.
Penneys itself said that “rigorous health and safety measures” would be put in place in all its stores, with the ones located in shopping centres set to re-open on Monday 15 June.
Among the measures put in place by the clothes retailer are social distancing protocols, hand sanitiser stations, perspex screens at tills and additional stores cleaning.
To enforce social distancing, there will be limits on the number of customers in store at any one time. There’ll be clear signage and floor decals along with dedicated staff to guide customers through the store.
Every second till will be closed and fitting rooms and beauty concessions will be closed in stores for the time being.
Its CEO Paul Marchant said: “We will adopt all government safety advice as a minimum in our stores and have benefited from our experience in the other markets in Europe where we have already opened successfully. As we open, we will continue to look at best practice across the retail sector and amend our measures appropriately.”
Ikea will adopt similar practices when it re-opens on Monday with dedicated social distance wardens guiding customers and helping them to find their socially-distanced way through the store.
The homeware retailer will also have hand sanitiser facilities and more frequent deep cleaning routines for bags, trolleys, bathrooms, rest areas, equipment and touchscnreens.
Play areas will also remain closed, as will the customer restaurant and cafe.
It will operate from 10.30am-11.30am for older people, the vulnerable and at risk, and open to the general public from 11.30am.
Martyn Allen, Ikea’s market manager in Dublin, said extensive measures had been put in place as “health and safety remains our top priority”.
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This story is as old as the burger.
Looks the same as it would after14 minutes…like shi*e
What a great story , I’m loving it .
Id love a burger now. Nom nom nom
People hate on McDonald’s and other fast food all the time but of you eat it on moderation it’s fine. Is the best thing to eat? No but once in a while won’t kill you. So long as you have a healthy diet in general you’re fine.
Manure, the bun would have gone mouldy
Your right
But its not a normal bun.
Correct. Example. Put a biscuit out on the counter top. It’s water content would be lower than the toasted bun. Give it a day or two. Guess what it appears soft, because it absorbs moisture from the air. Give it a week and it will have gone mouldy. This is a horsesh@t story.
Still would
McManky!
McMature
McBollox !
What’s the problem? The big M is the MF, when I come round a corner on a misty night and see the Golden Arches I thing Waaaaaa Hoooooo!!!! Now there is consistency in a commercial scale, from here to Timbuktu it’s going to be the same, no dough about it that toilet is gona be someway clean and there will be toilet paper and everything, yea don’t have to make an excuse coming in the door and you don’t even have to say good bye when yer done. It’s the international sign for toilet! When I see that yellow M my bowls start moving!
MacSlurry
Mc toilet
Those Polish meatballs really were the dogs bollox.
Nice that you take in your own dishes!!ha ha!
McStarvin
Think it’s known as taking a McDump
Good man Keath, that’s the word I was looking for. You’d never know it might be entered into the Oxford dictionary in a few years
Watch food inc or eartlings to show how food is really processed
try this with most foods and you will see the same thing.
Once the food dries out it’s less likely to grow the mould you’re used to seeing. Most foods that get mouldy in our fridges are wet or somewhat moist (yogurt, cheese, tomatoes, bread) – try doing the same thing with a slice of toast as you do with a slice of bread…
This story is resurrected every few years, and has lost all wow factor.
No it has not. The food is poison and people need to know how bad is it for your insides.
Freeze anything for any amount of time and its appearance will barely change. It’s shite food but good god is it delish.
And people will still eat that muck no matter what.
Yep its nothing but poision and im amazed that in this day and age with so much focus on health that people still regularly eat such highly processed, salty, fatty and sugar ladden foods.
You wouldnt fill your lamborghini pagani or ferrari with the cheapest, poorest petrol so why would you fuel your body with that sh#te?
Mcdonalds is not food
10 pints inside you ;)
You never know the difference how old the burger was lol
So now there’s 3 things that will last nuclear war, cockroaches, twinky’s and McDonald’s.
Eat it, see what happens.
Lol
Vintage burgers, yum!!
Disgusting food made for people who have no respect for there bodies.
Exactly! You can get much better food at a lower price just as quick. All down to zombie consumerism.
Just as quick? Burger King ?
A little mayo, I’d still eat it.
Lazy journal. A story that has been widely discredited years ago. Did you know there was no moon landing either?
Reactionary shite
I heard somewhere that some of the American people who die are not decomposing because they ate this shit all their lives and chemicals in this food is the reason.
It’s proooooobably because they are embalmed , I’m guessing
Straight from the horses mouth….he he he
Scary stuff…..
Weak as piss journalism
Few pints and chomp burp
what is nom nom nom?
“Research” (cough) Andrew Wakefield would be proud of…
If you had what I have? You would not eat a hamburger. WHAT HAVE YOU GOT? No money! LOL.
Oh geez that’s just revolting…
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