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Grant all retailers limited opening during lockdowns to ensure market equality.

Submitted on Saturday 7th November 2020

Rejected on Monday 9th November 2020

Current status: Rejected

Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)

Petition Action

Grant all retailers limited opening during lockdowns to ensure market equality.

Petition Details

We want the government to permit all retail to open. It would be acceptable to limit numbers in all stores based on size.
We are seeing out of town and large stores becoming a magnet whilst Town Centres are dying. This is causing a greater risk of spreading the virus than keeping people local.

Additional Information

Wonder why small independent shops are angry it is because we have just three weekends to trade in our busiest two months of the year. Meanwhile supermarkets, garden centres, big DIY stores and the likes of Amazon can sell what they like.

Thousands of high street shops will not survive the loss of Christmas trade. Tesco and Amazon are able to sell toys, a 50+ year old toy shop can't.
Good rules can't be prejudicial.

You can not permit unfair competition because a company sells food.


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This petition was rejected

The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:

There's already a petition about this issue. We cannot accept a new petition when we already have one about a very similar issue.

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You may wish to sign this petition calling for the same action: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/557629

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