Clothing is non-essential. I saw it all taped off with yellow caution tape with a piece of paper explaining that non-essential items can't be sold. Gift cards taped down too. So I can't buy a Google Play or Uber gift card with cash. I must use a Visa or Mastercard to fund these things.
The Ben & Jerry's ice cream and the Fudgee-O Double Stuf I bought last night is essential though even though this stuff makes you vulnerable to COVID (as well as Type II diabetes, heart disease, stroke, cancer, etc.) if you don't eat it in moderation. 4/20 Munchies are essential. The cheesecake is essential in Doug Ford's Ontario but I didn't get any.
Never once in the past 13 months have I seen a PSA from Dr. Theresa Tam, Dr. David Williams, Dr. Eileen de Villa, Dr. Lawrence Loh, Doug Ford, etc. that obesity increases your risk of COVID hospitalization or even death substantially. And that people should lower their caloric intake, exercise (they close the gyms and they tried to close the parks and playgrounds), get Vitamin D, sunshine, etc. to reduce their COVID risk. Instead people have been expected to avoid other people for the past 13 months to stop the spread of COVID-19.
You can't buy makeup at Walmart, but you can buy makeup at Rexall. You can't buy clothing at a clothing store, but you can buy it at independent grocery.
Etc.
That is odd. Even at No Frills I haven't seen anything taped down. Though I didn't check every aisle either. But at big box stores like Wal-Mart and Costco, they do tape down "non-essentials". Because a lot of people were bitching about there being lots of people at Wal-Mart and Costco so they got targeted. But lots of people at a supermarket or a pharmacy is okay because it's "essential".