The Pick n Pay Supermarket Group is providing South Africans with most of their essential needs during lockdown in South Africa. The group is allowed to sell food and other essentials to South Africans during lockdown while other businesses are not operating which means the group has been identified as one of the supermarkets which will help the government in terms of supplying essential goods to its citizens.
Pick n Pay is allowed to sell food to all people in South Africa but they are not allowed to sell cooked food which means the bakery at Pick n Pay is not operating. No baking is allowed at shops and this means the Pick n Pay Group cannot make pies, chips and other foods that are sold there normally. They are allowed to sell any frozen food and unprepared food.
The government is making sure that there are no queues at supermarkets for cooked foods and it was recognized that cooked foods do not help in the fight against spreading coronavirus. The queues for entrance to buy essential goods have rules where each and every person on the queue should one metre away from the next person.
The employees of this company are all guaranteed of their jobs even the bakery staff who are currently not working now still have their jobs after the lockdown and will be paid full salaries while at home waiting for the lockdown to end. The company has also added staff during lockdown to help in other departments at their shops.
There are a lot of items that Pick n Pay is not allowed to sell to the public during lockdowns as those goods have been classified as non-essential. Any shop found to be selling non-essential items will be closed and the management will be arrested at the spot.
In terms of setting standards to fight the spread of coronavirus, Pick n Pay’s shops have sanitizers at the entrance which means all people entering their shops will be sanitized and also be given trolley which are already sanitizers to make sure they don’t contract the virus by using trolleys which are used by a lot of people on a daily basis.
