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Mega Imageis yet another retailer with an Online Supermarket section on its website. There is no delivery fee for orders with a value of over RON 250 but the retailer announced that, to limit the contact between shoppers and couriers during this period, cash payment is no longer available (thus customers can only pay by card). Shoppers can also order products from Mega Image on the eMAG platform (the Supermarket section).

Coraalso makes home deliveries to shoppers from Bucharest, Constanta, Cluj, and Ploiesti (and surrounding areas).

Electro-IT retailers Altex and MediaGalaxy are also selling water, coffee, soft drinks or beer on their websites.

For those who go out to buy supplies from supermarkets, hypermarkets or other grocery stores, the Romanian authorities have compiled a list of recommendations to prevent the infection with COVID-19:

Before going shopping:

• Make a shopping list to cut the time spent in the supermarket

• Avoid rush hours (morning/evening) and crowded public transportation

• Make sure you have: tissues, disinfectant gel (alternatively, gloves)

• Leave tissues and disinfectant gel outside your front door for when you return from shopping

• Make sure you follow the main safety rules: wash your hands frequently; disinfect often the surfaces with which you come into contact; cough and sneeze in your elbow or in a tissue; avoid touching your eyes, nose, and mouth without washing your hands first

During shopping:

• Touch the shopping cart only after wiping it down with disinfectant wipes or if you wear gloves

• Maintain a safe distance of 1-2 m from other people

• Avoid crowded aisles

• At the cash registers, keep at least 1 m between you and the other shoppers (you can put your shopping cart between you and the person in front)

• Avoid cash payment and pay with your card or smartphone instead; if you do pay cash, disinfect your hands as soon as possible after that

• Avoid getting your phone close to your face or ears

After shopping:

• Use the disinfectant (or sanitary alcohol) and tissues left outside your front door to disinfect your hands, door handle, phone, keys immediately after closing the door

• Don’t take your groceries to the kitchen or other places inside the house (you can leave them at the entrance)

• Use a towel and disinfectant (or sanitary alcohol) to disinfect the surfaces of the products you’ve purchased before taking them inside; do not spray substances on fruits or vegetables – just wash them very well

• With a towel soaked in disinfectant (or sanitary alcohol) clean the outside of the shopping bag(s), as well as the outside of the wallet used and/or bank cards

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