Quote Originally Posted by Heisenberg View Post
What if, say, 75% of the high street retailers have changed their business model to include online sales... Would you want them to suffer twice?

The whole point of not allowing the sale of non-essential items in shops is to reduce risk. They were never going to please everyone with this policy but stopping online sales too doesn't make any sense to me as the risk is minimal at most.
I don't want them to suffer at all and I don't want to restrict online sales. I'm just wondering why some people support imposing these restrictions on supermarkets to mitigate the situation for small shops, but don't want to impose them on other retailers.

I'd also like to know how much the risk is reduced by preventing supermarkets, which are already open, from selling their full range of goods.