The opening times of the supermarkets in the Würmtal remain unchanged. They will not open on Sundays, nor from 6 a.m. to 10 p.m. as is now allowed. This applies to Rewe, Penny and the AEZ.
Würmtal - "Due to the currently stable supply of goods, we see no reason to change our opening hours," explains the press spokesman for the Rewe Group Andreas Krämer.
"Our staff has been working at the limit for two weeks," says Florian Sieber, store manager at Martinsried AEZ. Employees would need a day off a week to catch their breath. "We would open immediately if necessary," he says. But this is currently not the case. Sieber assumes that the top of the hamster purchases has been reached: "The storage capacity of most at home has now been reached."
Deliveries of goods from morning to evening
But supermarkets don't just have to face hamster purchases: “People don't eat anymore. You can tell that everyone cooks at home, ”explains Sieber. In the AEZ, deliveries of goods now come from early in the morning to late in the evening. Six to two o'clock, that was once. If 22 pallets of toilet paper are delivered on Monday, they will be gone the next day, Sieber is still surprised. But he thinks that all the shelves will be filled again in two to three days. After customers had only bought flour, yeast, sugar and cans, they had now switched to fresh produce. Florian Sieber: "We are not closing, we are basic providers."
Around 60,000 items on offer
Every time the government announces a new measure, he feels uncertainty in the market. "There will be no bottleneck." There are around 60,000 items on offer in the AEZ, "55,000 we can safely hold". The fact that the Sunday driving ban in Germany had been lifted made the camps full.
Florian Sieber wants to take away another fear from customers: Even if there were a regulation like in Italy that supermarkets are only allowed to let in a limited number of people, 100 people could still visit the 4000 square meter AEZ at the same time. "No customer would have to wait outside."
Scales are disinfected every 15 minutes
His current concern is the spread of the virus in his market. Scales and EC devices are disinfected every quarter of an hour. If the appropriate funds run out, vinegar essence, alcohol or monastic woman melissa spirit would be used. In order to better protect the employees at the checkout, plexiglass panels have already been ordered. They should be delivered and assembled this week. Because Sieber is certain: "The topic will be with us for at least a year." He is prepared for it as far as possible.