Czech Republic to end reserved shopping hours for seniors from May 26

From May 26, grocery stores and drugstores in the Czech Republic will no longer be reserved for senior citizens only from 8:00 - 10:00

Jason Pirodsky

Written by Jason Pirodsky Published on 25.05.2020 16:57:45 (updated on 25.05.2020) Reading time: 1 minute

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Rome, Italy, March 11 -- An elderly woman protected by a medical mask goes shopping. Illustrative image via iStock / Photo Beto
Rome, Italy, March 11 -- An elderly woman protected by a medical mask goes shopping. Illustrative image via iStock / Photo Beto

Shoppers from all ages will be able to visit grocery stores and drugstores in the Czech Republic during all hours from tomorrow, May 26, Deputy Prime Minister Karel Havlíček told iDnes.cz this afternoon.

For the past two months, a two-hour window had been reserved for senior citizens at grocery stores and drugstores in the Czech Republic.

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The senior citizen shopping hours were initially from 10:00 – 12:00, but later changed to 8:00 – 10:00 after feedback from seniors.

From tomorrow, however, stores will be open to all shoppers from all hours.

Prime Minister Andrej Babiš had previously stated that some people had written to him to complain that they did not have enough time for their morning shopping.

“People from Moravia wrote to me that it’s a bit of a problem for them, that they can only shop from 10:00 and that there’s not enough time to cook lunch and so on,” Babiš stated.

In an informal poll on iDnes.cz, readers overwhelmingly responded that the reserved shopping hours for senior citizens did not make sense.

Today, the Czech Republic unveiled the last stage of their multi-step plan to re-open businesses in the country, with restaurants, pubs, and almost all other locations that had previously been closed now allowed to reopen.

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