All non-essential shops in Wales will be able to reopen from next Monday, First Minister Mark Drakeford is expected to confirm.
The move will bring Wales in line with England where non essential retailers were allowed to reopen on Monday providing they could ensure safe distancing for customers.
However, it is expected that people in Wales will be asked to continue to "stay local" within five miles for at least another two weeks.
Mr Drakeford is understood to be ready to announce this Friday that non-essential shops can reopen next week providing they can "take all reasonable measures to comply with the physical distancing duty in Welsh law".
Scores of shoppers descended on high streets on Monday after England announced its own stores could open to the public again.
Businesses in Wales will be expected to ensure two-metre social distancing is observed in their premises.
Earlier on Thursday Health Minister Vaughan Gething said he did not want to see large crowds gathering near shops.
"If non-essential retail opens here in Wales next week I don't want to see a repeat of crowds bunched together outside shops in complete breach of what social distancing guidance is supposed to deliver," he said.
"People need to take a step back and look at the seriousness of the position we're in and to recognise that the release from lockdown comes with responsibilities for all of us in the way that we choose to behave."
Welsh retailers were told to prepare for a possible reopening three weeks ago.
But Mr Drakeford had said at that point that easing travel restrictions was "not on my list of things to change" in the review which ends on Friday, June 18.
It means that the advice to stay local and within five miles is likely to stay in place for now.
