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B&Q opened 155 stores today, and I very much doubt it was for selling products for urgent home maintenance, more like the wanted to start selling their stocks of summer garden furniture and barbecues and plants that they'd pre-ordered. the action of these selfish people will kill thousands more.
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CHRIS, the Health Protection (
21:10 Sat 25th Apr 2020
"Homeware, building supplies and hardware stores" are specifically excluded from the provisions the Coronavirus Regulations, so B&Q could have continued trading since those Regulations came into force.
However the company recognised that they weren't yet ready to be able to operate in a way that maintained social distancing, both for their customers and their staff, and therefore took the thoroughly responsible decision to close all of their stores until such time as they'd fully got to grips with all the problems. Now that they're happy that they've done so, it seems perfectly sensible for them to to re-open their stores.
Further, their staff will now find it far easier to pay their rent, mortgages and other bills than they would if they were only receiving 80% of their normal income.
Yes, reopening those stores will help to maintain the profits of Kingfisher plc (who own B&Q) but most of Kingfisher's shareholders aren't mega-rich private individual but pension funds that provide regular incomes for vast numbers of senior citizens. If the share prices of such companies seriously plunge, there's a very real risk that hundreds of thousands of people could lose most of their pensions.
However the company recognised that they weren't yet ready to be able to operate in a way that maintained social distancing, both for their customers and their staff, and therefore took the thoroughly responsible decision to close all of their stores until such time as they'd fully got to grips with all the problems. Now that they're happy that they've done so, it seems perfectly sensible for them to to re-open their stores.
Further, their staff will now find it far easier to pay their rent, mortgages and other bills than they would if they were only receiving 80% of their normal income.
Yes, reopening those stores will help to maintain the profits of Kingfisher plc (who own B&Q) but most of Kingfisher's shareholders aren't mega-rich private individual but pension funds that provide regular incomes for vast numbers of senior citizens. If the share prices of such companies seriously plunge, there's a very real risk that hundreds of thousands of people could lose most of their pensions.
There's absolutely nothing about "essential home maintenance products" in the Regulations:
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(Scroll down to Part 3 of Schedule 2 for a full list of all types of businesses which are specifically exempted from having to close).
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(Scroll down to Part 3 of Schedule 2 for a full list of all types of businesses which are specifically exempted from having to close).
//21.19 ok if your having trouble. I'm sure you've heard over the past few week. ( essential, and none essential ) the cracks of greed are opening up.//
Ah, right, gotcha. Well, about 80% of the stuff Tesco, Sainsbury's and ASDA sell is not essential. You don't need jam, you don't need biscuits, you don't need cakes, you don't need fabric conditioner, you don't need ketchup (I could go on, but I'm sure you get my gist). Tesco can sell clothes but Next can't. ASDA can sell pot plants but my garden centre can't. Sainsbury's can sell a screwdriver but B&Q can't. So what's the difference?
Ah, right, gotcha. Well, about 80% of the stuff Tesco, Sainsbury's and ASDA sell is not essential. You don't need jam, you don't need biscuits, you don't need cakes, you don't need fabric conditioner, you don't need ketchup (I could go on, but I'm sure you get my gist). Tesco can sell clothes but Next can't. ASDA can sell pot plants but my garden centre can't. Sainsbury's can sell a screwdriver but B&Q can't. So what's the difference?
all the same, there may be ways for younger people to die, ichkeria
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Probably not a major issue but an unexpected one
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Probably not a major issue but an unexpected one
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