A Timaru butcher shop owner says Covid-19 guidelines are unclear and lack common sense after being told his click and collect system for customers was not allowed. Some of these butchers have 300 customers and doing 100 deliveries, and they’re not meeting the demand out there. Some of them are working 15-hour days.”Arkwright said the move to level 4 and the resulting closure of butcher shops came as a surprise. In hindsight, we should have continued our conversation with the government.”Some butcher shops around the country could go out of business Arkwright said, with heavy losses sustained in last year’s lockdown. “Some are still trying to recover from that.”Retail Meat NZ has launched a petition calling for butcher shops to remain open through level 4.

Source: Stuff August 24, 2021 04:30 UTC