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LOCAL SUPPORT & RESOURCES UPDATE
Heath Stores
We will be in tier 4 – Lockdown from midnight tonight.The new variant COVID-19 strain is 70% more infectious.Your Christmas plans may now have changed and we are here to help you with any additional needs.Heath Stores will remain open as usual except for pre-planned closure 1.30 to 2.30pm Tuesday and Wednesday (to allow safe picking of Christmas orders). We have plenty of food, drink, cheese, tins of biscuits, chocolate and hampers etc. We are here to support our local communities. We are still doing next day deliveries for standard food shops to our local villages (orders by 1pm the day before.) However there is limited space on Monday, Tuesday and Thursday and no deliveries available on Wednesday.
To help us help you, and to ensure a COVID safe environment for our staff and customers, entrance to Heath Stores will be more strictly managed. We will have a member of staff at the door enforcing the 5 customers at a time rule. Only 1 member of a household at any one time will be allowed in the store. This will be enforced by Heath Stores Staff.Visits to the store will be limited to once per day. Please consider buying more less often – thank you.
Please do not bring children under 12 in at any time. If you cannot safely leave your child at home at some point during the day to get shopping, you will need to wait for a staff member to be free to serve you at the door. Babes in arms and toddlers securely strapped in pushchairs are exempt from this rule.
Masks MUST be worn at all times in the store including over your nose. If you are exempt from wearing a mask you may borrow one of our faces shields (sanitised between each use) or wait for a member of staff to be free to serve you at the door. Do not touch your mask whilst you are in store – if you have COVID-19 this causes transfer of virus to anything you touch.
Newspapers will not be sold in store, customers with accounts or coupons will be able to get their paper from the Door Monitor. If you already receive a home delivery this will continue. Heath Stores may extend the Newspaper delivery service in the New Year if lockdown continues.
We wish you all a safe and hopeful Christmas and we thank you for your continued support and cooperation during these most challenging of times.We would also like to put on public record our grateful thanks to our amazing staff who have done so much this year to go above and beyond to serve their community.
www.heathstores.co.uk/order-form.php
Heath Pharmacy
Ola and his team have introduced a 10am opening time each day with the usual lunchtime 1pm to 2pm closure. There is an unprecedented demand on their services and they are doing their absolute best to continue to meet the growing needs of the community at large whilst providing a safe and efficient process.
Social distancing applies in the shop with a restriction to two people at any one time plus the usual 2 meter gap between each person. If you or someone you know cannot collect prescriptions in person due to self-isolation or social distancing, the volunteer group. SEE BELOW
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