COVID-19: Is your trip to the in-house grocery store paved with safety measures?
The HinduEven where whole populations are holed up in their burrows, following lockdown rules to a T, people may still have to surface now and then for “life-sustainers” – in plain terms, those beans and beets and a caboodle of other things generically called “food items”. However, this advantage would amount to just a hill of shrivelled-up beans if precautions are not taken for people to be safe from each other while shopping at the in-house grocery store. Only one person per household can show up at the grocery store,” says Vivek, committee member, Arihant Frangipani Residents Welfare Association. Waiting comfort At House of Hiranandani Upscale, a humongous 10-tower community in Egattur, the store is much bigger than the one at Arihant Frangipani, and the community brings its own customisation plan to grocery-shopping. The maximum number of people that can wait outside the shop is 10, and they have to keep their distance,” says Santosh Abraham, secretary, Kochar Panchsheel Apartments Owners Association.
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