Claim: Social media posts are circulating showing supermarket shelves that have been covered over or taped off to prevent customers purchasing certain items. Reference is made to this happening in Belfast and Northern Ireland.
Fact-check: Are Northern Ireland retailers covering up non-essential items from sale? - FactCheckNI
Verdict: inaccurate. at the time of writing, wales is the only part of the uk that has restricted the sale of non-essential items in supermarkets. there is no indication that this model of restriction will be introduced in northern ireland.
Organisation: FactCheckNI
Author: Unknown
Date published: 2020-11-03T00:00:00