WOOLWORTHS Capalaba will reduce its opening hours as the company looks to scale up its delivery service.
It is the latest Redlands store to become a delivery hub, after the supermarket giants announced last week that its Victoria Point and Cleveland stores would reduce their opening hours in a move designed to prioritise delivery to vulnerable shoppers' homes.
All stores will now open from 9am to 6pm each day, with staff to use additional hours to process online orders. Community hour will also cease.
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Woolworths hopes their new service will help the elderly, people with disability, those with compromised immunity and people in mandatory isolation.
Woolworths managing director Claire Peters said the company was focused on supporting vulnerable community members during the coronavirus crisis.
"To help support getting basic food and essentials to those that need it most, our teams have been doing everything they can to scale up online and home deliveries to the elderly, people with disabilities or those in mandatory self-isolation.
"Following an extraordinary level of demand for groceries in recent weeks, reducing trading hours in some of our stores to turn them into priority delivery hubs will help us assist more people who can't access a store to get products they need."
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