THE Woolworths supermarket in Bathurst City Centre will operate under reduced opening hours as the company increases its focus on online trading during the coronavirus crisis.
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The supermarket, one of two Woolworths outlets in Bathurst, will become a "priority delivery hub" with the extra hours the store is not open to the public to be used to pack online orders.
Woolworths Supermarkets managing director Claire Peters said the company was focused on meeting the increased demand from its "Priority Assistance" customers, including the elderly, people with disability, those with compromised immunity and people in mandatory isolation.
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"At Woolworths we are focused on supporting the most vulnerable in the community during these challenging times," Ms Peters said.
"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."
The new opening hours, 9am-6pm daily, came into effect on Wednesday.
The Bathurst City Centre outlet is one of 100 Woolworths supermarkets being made priority delivery hubs. Due to the shorter opening hours, it will no longer offer Community Hour shopping.
