15% food shop discount for NHS workers
LOWER PRICES ARE THANKS FOR COVID-19 LIFE-SAVERS
THE manager of a shop in Radford has spoken out about offering a special discount and opening hours to NHS workers in Nottinghamshire.
NHS staff members and elderly and vulnerable residents will be able to shop at Kaya Food Centre, in Alfreton Road, from 8am until 9am every Thursday without other members of the public.
Anyone who works in the NHS will be able to get a 15 percent discount on all their shopping.
Kemal Salih, manager of Kaya Food Centre, said the move was a way to give back to hard-working healthcare workers in the second national lockdown.
“We just want to do anything we can to help out,” he told the Post.
“We know how hard people have been working this year so it is the least we can do.
“If we can offer people a bit of money off then it may help them just a little bit, which is important at the moment.”
Kemal has worked at the shop on and off for the past eight years, decided on the discount with shop owner Menekse Sardis.
He added: “Lockdown was really difficult for our community last time and we want to make sure they know we will look after them as so many of our community look after their families, friends and the public – especially our NHS workers, who we will offer a special discount to.”
Nottingham City Council has now called on supermarkets to reintroduce special shopping hours.
The council says priority hours helped those who needed to shop at quieter hours of the day.
Councillor Sally Longford, deputy lreader of the council, said: “We know how valuable these priority shopping hours were to our key workers, vulnerable citizens and shift workers during the first lockdown and appreciate that the new national lockdown will be causing anxiety to people who want to maintain some normality during the next month by visiting the shops.
“I would like to thank those supermarkets who came back to us on our proposals, either citing their already strenuous efforts to keep shelves stacked and stringent hygiene measures, that they would keep the idea under review or that they already have them in place, as Tesco has at its Extra and Superstore outlets.
“We’re especially grateful to our local supermarkets like Kaya Food Centre, who have heard what are looking to do and answered us very quickly. It’s great to see our local shops doing their bit to keep their customers safe in worrying times.
“We feel having such a policy across the city is an important step to keeping our citizens safe as we enter this new lockdown to reduce the rates of Covid19 and get back to some sense of normality as quickly as possible.”