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SHOPS ALLOWED TO STAY OPEN

Supermarkets and food shops


Pharmacies

Petrol stations

Newsagents

Bicycle shops

Home and hardware stores

Laundrettes and dry cleaners

Garages

Pet shops

Post Offices

Banks


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WHAT WILL CLOSE DURING THE LOCKDOWN?

Clothes stores

Book shops

Electrical stores

Hairdressers and barbers

Bed and breakfasts

Home and hardware stores

Pubs Gyms Restaurants ? takeaways still available

All places of worship ? except for funerals


https://metro.co.uk/2020/03/24/coronavirus-uk-lockdown-shops-can-stay-open-12446352/


n.b. Home and hardware stores seem to appear in both lists ???


Foxy

holloway Wrote:

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> The reason I started this thread was because I put

> a load of work clothes in for dry-cleaning,

> pre-lockdown on Saturday morning. I work for the

> NHS incidentally so I'm still working. The

> dry-cleaners are still shut.



Do they not have any kind of information displayed for customers?


That's really poor. What are people like you supposed to do?

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