The Ministry of Commerce and Industry (MoCI) announced that the number of online appointments for shopping in associations, markets and catering branches exceeded 93,000 yesterday, Tuesday, reported Al Rai daily.
This marked the seventeenth day since the beginning of the full curfew imposed by the government in the context of facing the coronavirus.
Citizens and expats utilize an online system for reserving shopping appointments in cooperative societies and food outlets during the total curfew prior to going grocery shopping. Each person has one appointment per week to be made through the website www.moci.shop.
The website allows for changing dates, shopping times, and highlights the number shoppers for each market separately. With the site, shoppers can access to slaughterhouses, fish markets, cooperative societies, catering branches and central markets.
Customers have to enter their Civil id number, cell phone number and email address. They also have to choose their booking destination, and available markets.
Once the customer has fixed the time and place, security authorities will check the supplied bar code to verify credibility of the information for entry and exit. The shopping reservation system is part of Kuwait’s harsher measures to curb the spread of coronavirus in the country by limiting gatherings. This reservation system will reduce crowding, mixing among customers and limit wait times in the coops.