People with vision disabilities have claimed they were turned away from UK grocery stores ‘because they would be unable to stay two metres from other customers’ under social distancing rules, reports Daily Mail.
One man alleged he was stopped from entering an unnamed supermarket in Derby because he was ‘unable to guarantee’ he could remain a distance from the nearest person.
Persons with disabilities have claimed they are ‘not being allowed helpers in some supermarkets’ because the stores are ‘limiting entry to one person at a time.’
‘One individual was not allowed to go in because she couldn’t carry her basket in her wheelchair,’ Amo Raju from the Disability Direct charity said.
‘And there was customer with vision disability who was not allowed into his local store because they said he could not socially distance and wouldn’t allow anyone to help him.’
The claims come as parents alleged major supermarkets had prevented them from shopping with their children as part of a crackdown on social distancing rules.
Many grocers have limited the number of people allowed inside a supermarket at once, with others asking customers to remain at least two metres apart amid the UK’s coronavirus outbreak.
