Puerto Vallarta tightens rules on supermarkets during COVID-19 pandemic

Faced with merchants' demand that they be allowed to sell non-essential items, as large supermarkets offer, the Puerto Vallarta City Council today ordered supermarket managers to only offer essential items within their establishments.

The information was reported by Francisco Vallejo, Secretary-General of the Puerto Vallarta City Council, after a little more than fifty merchants, from the El Pitillal delegation and from the City Center, demonstrated this morning to ask that they be allowed to open their businesses, some of them with non-essential merchandise.

One of their main complaints was that they would . . .