Little shopping update. Been to cortonwood today

I actually don't know what you mean.
If someone has covid-19 and they touch a card machine which I also touch how do I wash my hands when they won't provide anything to sanitise them with?

I'd also argue that a lot of people didn't manage it as it was still spreading like wildfire during lockdown.

 

Not playing , you don’t like the idea, I get it.But we both know you would argue it to ludicrously tedious details, so nope not playing.

 

Ok then, it was a genuine question. I don't know when you're telling me to wash my hands when I'm at the checkouts so asked what you meant but you don't have to 'play' even though it wasn't a game.

 

I once bought antiperspirant instead of deodorant. I don't like to talk about it.

 

You didn't go into the best one. I went to Argos yesterday and it was being run like a military operation. A roped area to queue outside and a staff member on the door who calls people forward one by one to check the reason for visit and input their click and collect number on a tablet. I was told to stand just inside the entrance and wait for the customer at the collection point roped area to move forward to the counter. I then went through a one way system to stand where he had been and when he left I was called forward. There were three customers allowed in the store at a time: One at the entrance, one in the collection point roped area and one at the collection counter. All the monitors were switched off and covered up.

 

I wear disposable gloves at the cash point, which I take off and put in the bin immediately afterwards. I don't handle my wallet while wearing them and clean the card with a wipe afterwards.

 

Thanks for posting that, another reason to avoid Argos and use Amazon then!

 

LOL

 

From what I've seen driving past Screwfix is very similar. Must be a counter based store thing. I did feel sorry for the Screwfix guy a few weeks ago as it was absolutely boiling and he had sweat dripping off him

 

I've noticed the last couple of months lots of family groups where only one member is wearing a mask. The absolute futile nature of that says to me, that the measures with masks really are a PR decision. A lot of people will just feel safer with everyone in a mask.

 

Youve a something around a 1/4000 chance of catching Covid according to the BI gimps where I work. As minimum odds.

The overwhelming number of cases currently are in hospitals, carehomes and communities with dense multiple occupancy/generations under the same roof.

 

Is that an Allosaurus?

 

I was at a cafe last Sunday morning...if you know the one at Ollerton roundabout it has a big outside seating area...a guy pulled up in his car wearing a mask got out took it off and sat talking to his mates

 

Our local Morrisons has had excellent measures in place with in and out doors, sanitised trolleys and baskets also ample supplies of sanitiser at the entrance for months. I would assume it would be company policy, so it might be worth reporting the situation at Cortonwood to the head office.

 

The one in Barnsley also uses the nonsense approach of making you walk all the way around the clothes and household sections to get the tills. They have blocked off all the aisles at the bottom by the tills, so if you go down one you have to come back up it and as such walk back past people. Seems counterproductive to me.

 

Yep exactly the same at cortonwood

And all because they're too greedy and are the only industry (food shopping) to have been completely unregulated throughout all of this. They've had a monopoly on retail for months and have made an absolute fortune.

Morrisons at cortonwood for example has an aisle fairly central in the store which has 'seasonal' goods in it. Essentially it's got a few random gardening items and randomly some chocolate thrown on. If they sacrificed this one aisle and took stock off the shelves it would create a perfect queuing area where people could queue safely and then be called to whichever till is available. But no, greed and unregulation allow them to do whatever they want while cafes are going to the wall forced to remove tables.

 

Q

.but if all hands are sanitised going into the shop they will still be clean touching the card reader? If not, just wash your hands or sanitize afterwards.

 

No it doesn't work like that. Sure if you get your card or cash out of your pocket before entering and sanitise your hand and squirt some all over the card and cash then walk around the store with your arms in the air making sure they don't touch any part of your clothing then yes they're sanitised still

However if you're a normal person and you walk around the store, possibly get your phone out of your pocket to check your shopping list maybe, have your arms by your side where you accidentally touch your clothing which you put on using your hands earlier and then reach into your pocket to get out some way of paying for your goods then no they won't still be clean.

 

Theres lots of things that can happen from the time you enter the store to the time you get to the card reader. You are potentially picking up 100s of contaminated items on your shop, other people could be biting nails, picking their beak, scratching their arse etc which would mean there is an ability to have the virus on your hands by the time you are at the card reader.

There should be a hand sanitiser at every touch screen and that should be a government lead directive.