...........not in Portugal they don't.
The Portuguese beurocracy maze strikes again. This time forcing the recently opened Iceland store at the Guia Retail Park to keep its doors firmly closed.
This except has been taken from the Portugal Daily News;
Shoppers found the doors closed at the Iceland store in Guia this morning. Here follows a statement from a company spokesperson.
"I can confirm that yesterday the Iceland store in Guia was inspected by more than one authority.
No real fault could be detected with the store except for the labels which we have to by law place on to imported food stuffs. Until yesterday we believed we were complying with all regulations by translating English ingredients in to Portuguese and adding additional label with this information to each food item.
Yesterday we were told that this information was insufficient and we are required to translated all cooking and storage instructions also in to Portuguese and the same for household, health and beauty and pet items and this information has to also be added to each product.
We were not given a time frame to accomplish this within, instead we were instructed to close until we are able to achieve this.
All at Overseas (Iceland) are now working very hard to ensure we are back up and running as soon as possible with minimal disruption to our customers. We would like to say by the weekend but we simply can't put a time scale on it at the moment.
No real fault could be detected with the store except for the labels which we have to by law place on to imported food stuffs. Until yesterday we believed we were complying with all regulations by translating English ingredients in to Portuguese and adding additional label with this information to each food item.
Yesterday we were told that this information was insufficient and we are required to translated all cooking and storage instructions also in to Portuguese and the same for household, health and beauty and pet items and this information has to also be added to each product.
We were not given a time frame to accomplish this within, instead we were instructed to close until we are able to achieve this.
All at Overseas (Iceland) are now working very hard to ensure we are back up and running as soon as possible with minimal disruption to our customers. We would like to say by the weekend but we simply can't put a time scale on it at the moment.
We recommend our customers contact the store directly or check our web site before making a journey.
We apologise to all of our customers and are sorry for any inconvenience this may cause to them."
One wonders whatever will the authorities do next, another good Portuguese idea, don't you just love 'em.
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