123 AT COVID-19 Grocery supplies

Record ID: 462935
  • Title: 123 AT COVID-19 Grocery supplies
  • Date: 16th March 2020
  • Description:Starting Monday, in line with the fight against the corona virus, shop purchasing possibilities will be drastically restricted. The grocery trade remains open - but citizens should avoid panic buying . Rationing of product groups is not planned, the managements of the big food supply chains in Austria were saying. "We are prepared for increased demand, we have increased deliveries, the branches and markets are well supplied and will remain so the re-orders are adapted to the situation - we can therefore quickly provide the appropriate quantities." The goods are constantly refilled, there is also enough fresh goods. The Armed Forces are now helping in the central warehouses , for example, this help doubled the staff in some regional stock houses over the weekend. From Monday, support for the army will be expanded across Austria. But what is needed are temporary workers - including students, high school students, employees from the retail, catering or hotel sectors. The online delivery services of the big supply chains are constantly very crowded. The supermarket chains currently only supplies normal household quantities. Due to the high demand, there is a general weight limit of a maximum of 100 kilograms per order. They cannot deliver to areas that are currently in quarantine. The delivery times of various food delivery services are normal , for the moment. The services leave the food at the door without customer contact. Shotlist - REWE central warehouse Wiener Neudorf - SOUNDBITE (German) Ines Schurin, company spokesperson REWE Austria: “Yes, our employees are very stressed, that’s why we appeal very clear and loud, please apply for a job with us, we take on 1500 – 2000 new members of staff." - WS REWE Central - SOUNDBITE (German) Ines Schurin, company spokesperson REWE Austria: “This call is directed to employees of shops which had to close now, to gastronomy staff who cannot work at the moment, please help us in the chain stores. How do we protect our employees, of course we train the hygiene measures, we give them what they need to feel secure, if they want they are allowed to use gloves which is not normally supposed to, or the disinfectant at the cash." - WS Truck park - SOUNDBITE (German) Ines Schurin, company spokesperson REWE Austria: “We work at full blast in all our warehouses, round the clock and all the weekend, there are special sheets and we provide our stores several times a day." - Military personnel helping at the warehouse - Family photo military man and Defence Minister Klaudia Tanner - VS shots full warehouse - Warehouse staff arriving in a crowd - VS of trucks - Stocks
  • Collection: ORF
  • Genre:News
  • Producer:ORF
  • Transmission Date:16/03/2020
  • Decade: 2020s
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