Submitted on Saturday 7th November 2020
Rejected on Monday 9th November 2020
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)
Allow 'Non-Essential' Retailers to re-open.
The livelihoods of thousands of independent retailers are under threat.
This is unfair and unnecessary as they have spent millions on making their premises safe and hygienic.
Allow them to reopen as a matter of urgency.
A recent Sage paper reported that closing ‘non-essential’ retail would have minimal impact on the transmission of Covid. This is thanks to the hundreds of millions of pounds retailers have spent making their stores Covid-secure and safe for customers and colleagues.
We will come into 2021 with thousands of independent retailers bankrupt and hundreds of thousands of shop workers unemployed and unemployable, for evermore.
Please act now; allow 'non essential' retailers to re-open.
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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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