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Fashion giant Primark is planning on opening 24 hours a day after England’s 4 week lockdown in the run up to Christmas.
They say once the second lockdown is over they want to give customers every opportunity to shop they have also said they want to make customers more separate with the surprising opening hours. This will make people who like to shop very pleased. As reported in the Telegraph, Mr Weston said: "If we are able to trade in some stores up to 24 hours a day, then we can keep people more separate from each other more easily."
"We can keep the stores safer if everyone knows there are plenty trading hours, [and] they do not have to rush on a Sunday into a six-hour period."
"We can keep the stores safer if everyone knows there are plenty trading hours and they do not have to rush on a Sunday into a six-hour period."
This will be a great step forward for the high street and it will help the shop sell stock and it will also give the public hope that they will get their Christmas shopping done before the 25th.
Large queues appeared outside Primark shops across the country when non-essential retail was permitted to re-open after the country's first lockdown. Mr Weston said longer opening hours could mean social distancing is easier and avoid busy peaks, he said.
Some might question the logic of buying bed socks or wrapping paper at 5 in the morning but plenty of people work shifts during the night, especially our key workers who struggle to find free time. This brilliant initiative might just help things to run more smoothly over the Christmas period after all.
Shoppers might be wondering which of the Primark stores these new opening hours will apply to and we don’t have the answer to this yet. However, they haven’t specified a shop or part of the country, so fingers crossed it will apply to all of them!
Only time will tell whether other retailers will adopt this initiative but if it helps people to avoid virus contagion and enjoy their Christmas, it sounds like a fantastic idea.
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