New opening hours for malls, supermarkets and convenience stores in red zone provinces

[Jonathan Fairfield]

Image: Reuters file photo

 

The Thai Retailers Association on Saturday announced a change to the opening hours of malls,  supermarkets and food courts and convenience stores in red  zone provinces.

 

Starting Sunday (25 April) the new opening hours will be as follows:

 

• Shopping malls, community malls: 11am to 8pm
• Supermarkets, food courts: Close by 9pm
• Convenience stores: 5am to 10pm.

 

The new opening hours apply  to all red zone provinces, such as:

 

Bangkok, Chiang Mai, Chonburi, Khon Kaen, Nakhon Pathom, Nakhon Ratchasima, Nonthaburi, Pathum Thani, Phuket, Prachuap Khiri Khan, Rayong, Sa Kaew, Samut Prakan, Samut Sakhon, Songkhla, Suphanburi, Tak and Udon Thani.

 

The new opening hours will be in place until 2 May  2021.

 

 

 

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[ukrules]

I don't know where they get their ideas from but the guy who comes up with this rubbish should be fired.

 

Take a store that's usually open for 24 hours per day and restrict the opening hours.

 

What happens then?

 

Instead of the customers being distributed throughout the entire day they are now concentrated into a shorter period of time due to the artificially applied constraint.

 

The result will be more people in the same indoor places at the same time as each other.

This is the opposite of what they should be attempting to achieve.

 

Edited April 24, 2021 by ukrules

[ericdiam]

The most stupid rules here. The mass spreading happens in day time when in crowded most of the places. 

Already last 2 weeks from 7-8pm it's getting extremely quiet everywhere. These new timings WON'T help anything on the spreading. 

Zero brain these monkey rulers have. 

Order mass vaccines from any Co. And start vaccinating urgently 70-80% of total population needed

[holy cow cm]

More restrictions more restrictions until Siam Bioscience comes in and saves all the Thai people's day. 

[Hockeybik]

7 minutes ago, ukrules said:

I don't know where they get their ideas from but the guy who comes up with this rubbish should be fired.

 

Take a store that's usually open for 24 hours per day and restrict the opening hours.

 

What happens then?

 

Instead of the customers being distributed throughout the entire day they are now concentrated into a shorter period of time due to the artificially applied constraint.

 

The result will be more people in the same indoor places at the same time as each other.

This is the opposite of what they should be attempting to achieve.

 

Oh...my brain hurts...so much logic

[fangless]

14 hours ago, Hockeybik said:

Oh...my brain hurts...so much logic

At least you have a brain unlike Thailand's so called leaders.

[hereforgood]

Does anybody really believe they're only going to have these new regulations for 5 or 6 days? Don't hold your breath they also have not mentioned extending the current regulations maybe they will be lifted on May 2nd 5555555

[Kwaibill]

I think this is to give the appearance of doing "something".

My engineering studies taught that "form follows function".

Seems the opposite here.

[yasbkk]

True but in the case of Thailand , people do go to the department stores and big retailers to also spend time , 

with the cases of covid going up , the malls and stores have seen much less traffic of customers abs it is working . 
 

by limiting the time of opening hours , only the necessary trips will be done and many of the people will abstain  from going shopping and mostly to meet friends in cafes , food courts etc .. 

 

your logic would work for normal times, but remember this is Pandemic and people do have minds to think. And Many will try avoid such places . 

 

 

[John Drake]

2 hours ago, ukrules said:

I don't know where they get their ideas from but the guy who comes up with this rubbish should be fired.

 

Take a store that's usually open for 24 hours per day and restrict the opening hours.

 

What happens then?

 

Instead of the customers being distributed throughout the entire day they are now concentrated into a shorter period of time due to the artificially applied constraint.

 

The result will be more people in the same indoor places at the same time as each other.

This is the opposite of what they should be attempting to achieve.

 

 

Absolutely correct. I would otherwise opt to make my weekly trip to Foodland around midnight, when few people are there and the likelihood of getting or spreading any infection lessens.

[Ventenio]

"hey, covid, what's up?"

"bro, you know i'm only awake after 10 p.m."

"oh yea, sorry dude."

"no worries, but I'll be dead soon since stores close at 10 pm"

"yo, really?"

"no, not really"

[Misterwhisper]

20 hours ago, holy cow cm said:

More restrictions more restrictions until Siam Bioscience comes in and saves all the Thai people's day. 

 

Indeed. And that was the plan from the beginning, so state propaganda can announce that a certain institution has once again saved the entire nation from certain doom. Alas,  so far it has backfired spectacularly.

[holy cow cm]

30 minutes ago, Misterwhisper said:

so state propaganda can announce that a certain institution has once again saved the entire nation from certain doom

Yep. and save the day will come for sure.

 

Nothing else matters besides them, their jugheads and what they protect regardless of the smoke and mirrors and evade blame tactics. You can bet that they are all inoculated and safe and the rest is just collateral damage of the peons.. 

[djayz]

21 hours ago, holy cow cm said:

More restrictions more restrictions until Siam Bioscience comes in and saves all the Thai people's day. 

and makes loads of money in the process... 

[madmitch]

Probably a precursor to a curfew.

[chilly07]

Better to have ONLY senior citizens disabled and those shielding due to preexisting conditions for a 2hr slot daily and not restrict hours otherwise to reduce serious infections and numbers overall

[hotchilli]

22 hours ago, holy cow cm said:

More restrictions more restrictions until Siam Bioscience comes in and saves all the Thai people's day. 

And Prayut will hail himself as the saviour for holding out on vaccines in their favour.

[holy cow cm]

7 minutes ago, hotchilli said:

And Prayut will hail himself as the saviour for holding out on vaccines in their favour.

Yes there will be 2 new statues made in their honor that 80% of the population will gag on. His and Prawit's.

[hotchilli]

14 minutes ago, holy cow cm said:

Yes there will be 2 new statues made in their honor that 80% of the population will gag on. His and Prawit's.

Not sure they have enough brass for Prawits.... 

[holy cow cm]

6 minutes ago, hotchilli said:

Not sure they have enough brass for Prawits.... 

They can melt all his military medals. He must have twice the amount of the last Army Chief General Apirat Kongsongphol.

[Thomas J]

On 4/24/2021 at 2:52 PM, ukrules said:

I don't know where they get their ideas from but the guy who comes up with this rubbish should be fired.

 

Take a store that's usually open for 24 hours per day and restrict the opening hours.

 

What happens then?

 

Instead of the customers being distributed throughout the entire day they are now concentrated into a shorter period of time due to the artificially applied constraint.

 

The result will be more people in the same indoor places at the same time as each other.

This is the opposite of what they should be attempting to achieve.

 

Edited yesterday at 02:53 PM by ukrules

Exactly,  

Many years ago a man who was one of the investment professionals and I were talking about steps the bank was taking to address loan problems due to failing companies stressed because of falling oil prices.  I looked at what the bank said it was going to do and I said to him, none of these steps do anything to address the problems.  He replied "Most Change Is Initiated To Create The Illusion Of Progress"  

That is exactly what is done here.  The government leaders can't really come up with policies that effectively address the spread of Covid but they are haphazardly adopting all sorts of rules without any thought as to their effectiveness.  Worse yet, many such as crowding people into compressed shopping hours may worsen the problems. 

However, when asked what they are doing, they can proudly point out all the rules and regulations showing how they are combatting the spread of Covid and everyone just nods their heads in agreement as though the policies really do anything. 

[tgw]

On 4/24/2021 at 2:52 PM, ukrules said:

I don't know where they get their ideas from but the guy who comes up with this rubbish should be fired.

 

Take a store that's usually open for 24 hours per day and restrict the opening hours.

 

What happens then?

 

Instead of the customers being distributed throughout the entire day they are now concentrated into a shorter period of time due to the artificially applied constraint.

 

The result will be more people in the same indoor places at the same time as each other.

This is the opposite of what they should be attempting to achieve.

 

sadly, that's true.

many of thailand's measures seem to be founded on the principle of sacrifice, i.e. hurt yourself and it will help the virus go away.

[Burma Bill]

On 4/24/2021 at 2:29 PM, Jonathan Fairfield said:

• Shopping malls, community malls: 11am to 8pm
• Supermarkets, food courts: Close by 9pm
• Convenience stores: 5am to 10pm.

 For reference, here in Cambodia, most Provinces are currently under curfew from 8pm to 5am, so such business premises are all closed between these hours - no variations as above. Inter Provincial travel was banned on April 7th, just prior to the start of the Khmer New Year (Thai Songkran), and is still in operation to stop people travelling around the country.

Edited April 25, 2021 by Burma Bill
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[bangon04]

7 hours ago, hotchilli said:

Not sure they have enough brass for Prawits.... 

Prawit has enough brass for every occasion....

[The Hammer2021]

On 4/24/2021 at 3:16 PM, fangless said:

At least you have a brain unlike Thailand's so called leaders.

Yet they run a country and you are powerless

[The Hammer2021]

9 hours ago, djayz said:

and makes loads of money in the process... 

Hopefully you will be an investor along with all  your other bio science investments and you will make loads of money

[Kwaibill]

On 4/25/2021 at 1:27 PM, chilly07 said:

Better to have ONLY senior citizens disabled and those shielding due to preexisting conditions for a 2hr slot daily and not restrict hours otherwise to reduce serious infections and numbers overall

Some stores in US did this. I think it a great idea.

[djayz]

23 hours ago, The Hammer2021 said:

Hopefully you will be an investor along with all  your other bio science investments and you will make loads of money

I'm pretty sure I don't have the necessary family connections to reap the benefits from this lucrative little deal.