Garda confusion over 'essential items' frustrating for retailers

Gardaí are now being forced to check the shelves in retailers, sometimes twice a day, for non-essential items, a Garda source told the 'Irish Examiner'. Picture: Leah Farrell / RollingNews.ie

The head of a retail group says confusion among gardaí about what constitutes an essential item is causing widespread frustration. 

Vincent Jennings, CEO of the Convenience Stores and Newsagents Association, representing 1,500 retailers, said that he has written to the Taoiseach three times about the current regulations which he says "make no sense".