Yes. If a store’s point of sale system can prevent selling beer in Texas before 12pm on Sunday, it can be programmed to disallow the sale of goods outside of “t

Yes. If a store’s point of sale system can prevent selling beer in Texas before 12pm on Sunday, it can be programmed to disallow the sale of goods outside of “this is essential” categories. That would have been the fair way to do it, putting all market participants on the same footing. Courts in Germany and France even ruled exactly that. If some businesses can be open while others are not, the former must only sell the essentials because to do otherwise unjustly enriches those who are deemed “essential with extras.”