All the essential shops, takeaways and click and collect shops open in the Bridges stores during Lockdown 3
With essential shops the only retailers allowed to trade during the third lockdown, bosses at the Bridges shopping centre in Sunderland have set out which businesses will still be open to customers.
Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced on Monday night, January 4, that the country would enter another lockdown immediately as ministers try to get to grips with a surge in cases associated with the new variant of Covid-19.
The official Government guidance – published on its website – outlines which businesses are allowed to remain open and which must close.
Non-essential shops – including clothing and homeware stores, tailors, tobacco and vape shops, electronic goods and mobile phone shops must close but are allowed to operate click-and-collect (where goods are pre-ordered and collected off the premises) and delivery services.
Hospitality venues such as cafes, restaurants, pubs, bars and social clubs must also shut, with the exception of providing food and non-alcoholic drinks for takeaway (until 11pm), click-and-collect and drive-through.
Personal care facilities such as hair, beauty, tanning and nail salons, tattoo parlours and body and skin piercing services must also close. These services should not be provided in other people’s homes.
Businesses which can remain open include essential retail such as food shops, supermarkets, pharmacies, garden centres, building merchants and suppliers of building products and off-licences and medical and dental services.
Bosses at the Bridges shopping centre, who have brought in a range of safety measures, from hand sanitising stations to one-way systems for shoppers to follow, have confirmed which of its businesses will remain open.
Essential Retailers (currently open during lockdown):-
Bargain Buys
Boots
Caffe Nero (takeaway only)
DSS Medical
Eurochange
Greggs
Greggs Cafe (takeaway only)
Halifax
Holland and Barrett
HSBC
Iceland
Krispy Kreme (takeaway only)
News and Booze
Nudo – (Takeaway only & pre order available)
Ramsdens
Savers
Starbucks (takeaway only)
Superdrug
Tesco
Vision Express (by appointment only)
Retailers Currently Offering Click & Collect
Beaverbrooks
Cards for all Occasions
EE
H Samuel
JD Sport
Just Cuts
Lush
Max Spielmann
Menkind
New Look
Next
The Entertainer
The Fragrance Shop
The Perfume Shop
The Works
Vodafone
Warren James
Waterstones
The centre’s multi-storey car park is closed but the rooftop car park and toilets remain open.
More details on opening times can be found via https://www.thebridges-shopping.com/.