The decision to ban click-and-collect for businesses will impact on a number of Tipperary retailers.
All online shopping must now be delivery only – however products that have already been ordered can still be collected.
John Butler is President of Thurles Chamber of Commerce and proprietor of Bookworm in the town.
He says click-and-collect was very important to his bookshop during previous lockdowns.
“It was one of the things that helped us keep going I suppose definitely in the first lockdown.”
“I suppose in the current situation though it seems to be much more extreme. It was a surprise that they banned click and collect but at the same time I suppose you can see the reasoning behind it -they want to restrict peoples movement as much as possible.”
