Alert level 3 – Independent fruit and vegetable retailers now allowed to open

HortNZ advises that they've had some success with their repeated request for independent fruit and vegetable retailers to be permitted to be open under levels 3 and 4.

With reference to the section on Workplaces, Alert Level 3, the inclusion of greengrocer will allow fruit and vegetable retailers to remain open.

The Covid-18 website here states:

[At Alert Level 3]: 'Businesses cannot offer services that involve close personal contact, unless a supermarket, dairy, primary produce retailer (eg greengrocer, fish monger or butcher), pharmacy, petrol station or hardware store providing goods to trade customers, or it is an emergency or critical situation.'