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Separate shopping hours is not a feasible option for elderly New Zealanders amid the coronavirus outbreak, an advocate says.
Instead, either providers or the Government should ration products to ensure the elderly were able to get the essential groceries they needed.
Grey Power national president Mac Welch, who retired from the supermarket industry, said restricted hours would be a "nightmare" to police.
Keeping people out of the supermarket of a certain age would be incredibly difficult and Welch said such measures would "cause a riot".
"Not only that, elderly people - particularly in the rural setting - only shop once or twice a month," he said.
Meanwhile, people might not have spoken with their elderly neighbour, but Welch urged them to ask if they needed anything on their way to the supermarket.