From next week onwards, supermarkets and hypermarkets will be prevented from selling non-food items, such as clothing, books and decorative objects, the Minister of State and Economy said today.
The diploma that will limit the sale of some products in large supermarkets should be published this Friday and will come into force next week, giving the sector time to remove them from the shelves.
"We determined the closure of a number of commercial activities, retail stores and what is planned is that it will be possible to limit sales in super or hypermarkets, large food distribution areas, the type of products that are sold in stores whose closing is determines [in this new general confinement],” Siza Vieira said today.
The Minister of Economy, who was speaking at a joint press conference with the Minister of Culture to present support measures for companies whose activity is suspended due to legal or administrative determination due to the new general confinement that starts at 00:00 this Friday , stated that the measure is "currently being regulated" and will enter into force "from the beginning of next week".
At stake are, according to Siza Vieira, decorative products, sports, books or textiles, that is, articles sold in retail stores that are forced to close doors as of this Friday.
The minister also said that the diploma should be published this Friday in order to give supermarkets and similar commercial areas time to remove products from their shelves that will be banned from sales, remembering, however, that for all companies the modalities remain online sale or 'to the wicket'.
"These public health measures cannot be market distortion measures," he said.
The enforcement of this measure will be monitored by the Food and Economic Security Authority (ASAE).
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