Shopping Reservations On Website Reached 77,773

The Ministry of Trade and Industry revealed that the total of online shopping reservations the day before yesterday reached 77,773 reservations through the online system of booking appointments at coops, markets and other catering branches, where 44,777 people decided to go shopping, reported Al Rai daily.

The ministry announced in a statement that cooperative societies recorded 40,460 reservations, with an attendance of 22,642, or 56 percent of people, and the total reservation time for markets reached 31,016, and witnessed the attendance of 19,751 people, a rate of 64 percent.

The catering branches yesterday registered bookings of 6,297 people, with 2,384 in attendance, which translates into 38 percent. Also mentioned was 221 complaints via the hotline, including 135 yesterday, and the emergency teams searched 58 cooperative societies and markets to determine the extent of their commitment to anti-coronavirus health standards, in addition to inspecting 54 catering branches to determine the progress of work in them. Inspectors also monitored cooperative and markets to ensure prices were kept at the standard.

The Ministry of Commerce and Industry (MoCI) allows citizens and expats to utilize an online system for reserving shopping appointments in cooperative societies and food outlets during the total lockdown prior to going grocery shopping. The ministry added that each person will have one appointment per week to be made through the website www.moci.shop.

The website allows for changing dates, shopping times, and highlights the number shoppers for each market separately. With the site, shoppers can access to slaughterhouses, fish markets, cooperative societies, catering branches and central markets.

The government decided earlier to impose a full curfew as of 4:00 pm, May 10 until May 30, as part of measures to stem the spread of COVID-19.

 

SOURCE : TIMESKUWAIT

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