They still don't get it. Supermarkets are still busier than pre corona, not by a huge amount but they are up and sales will continue to rise as the shelves fill up and availability gets back to normal. We should be seeing a slow down after 10 days of panic buying, a decline in sales, but no, family groups still going out and people in shopping daily. So what next?
Just been in iceland and stood the required distance behing a couple at the till. When i got to the till the lass said "he's horrible him" I asked why and she said he wasn't keeping the recommended distance away so she politely pointed this out. She then told me his response was "so what, it's only a common cold" Glad i didn't hear this as he would be sporting a common broken nose.
I wouldn't say busier, not in my experience at least, coop near me is only letting in limited numbers and the rest have to wait at 2m intervals outside...however some are not getting the social distancing idea yet...I called in Lidl, only one till open on the wall where the wine and spirits are kept. There were about eight of us in the queue at the regulation distance and a stupid woman came by excuse me...ing, and cutting into the spaces to select... leisurely...her bloody chardonnay.
Went to Morrisons at halfway in sheff today and it was like a Sunday. Old couples and people with kids just mosying around doing full shops without a care in the world. I went in for bread, milk and a bit of fruit n veg. Everyone was staying 2m away in the queues but down the aisles it was rammed. The lady before me spent £150! Mine was £7 Security guard had a ticket counting the people coming in and out so there must be a limit to the amount of people allowed in at one time.
After much fannying about earlier I managed to get a food delivery from Amazon Prime. They kept stating no slots available but I checked a few times over the course of an hour and got one for three hours later. Managed to get everything I wanted without substitutes too- flour and yeast for breadmaker, milk, handwash etc... i've not left the house since Saturday and don't intend to until this weekend when I collect my daughter. I'm going to try and avoid shopping in person and keep doing it this way for as long as possible. Should be good now for at least 2-3 weeks.
Without wanting to sound overly smart I saw this coming 3.5 weeks ago, and did plenty of shopping (the wife thought I was daft at the time), making sure I got stuff that would last and we could use to make other stuff - so thankfully ive no real need to go out to any supermarket for at least another 4 weeks, probably more. My anxiety came in useful for something, at last Maybe need bread and milk, but the corner shop is fine for those, so no worries there. I also did £400 for my old parents, but they've just sent me another list lol. They must be eating like horses! It will calm down. Maybe. I was never worried about a lack of food, I just didnt want to be anywhere where people were coughing Covid on to supermarket produce for me to then pick up. The longer you have to keep going to supermarkets, the more chance you have of getting it.
1200 transactions today, so prob 1500+ individuals, in a rural town in a county claiming no confirmed cases yet. Privileged lunatics with no care for society.
The limits are causing huge problems for people who are shopping for multiple households. I'm shopping for ourselves, the wife's elderly mother and my elderly parents. Being allowed one bottle of milk per shopper in this situation isn't much use. It means I'm still having to venture out most days, increasing my chances of catching the virus.
Not sure wheres only allowing one bottle of milk, the top 5 supermarkets are all on 3 or 4, so potentially with 6 pint bottles available, with up to 10 days life on fresh milk, u could buy 24pints of milk in one trip.
Is this a thread with lots of people going to supermarkets complaining that people are still going to supermarkets...
Tesco's are allowing 3 of each so sounds like an availability issue with that particular store who then took a local decision.
There's plenty more examples. One bottle of handwash, one packet of paracetamol, two tins of soup or beans. Those amounts aren't very helpful when you are shopping for three households and ideally want to limit your own exposure.
From what my wife tells me, part of the problem is that the supermarkets are out of stock on some items popular with the general public. As a result, punters are calling in on spec in the hope that the items they want, might be back on the shelves. We wanted tinned tomatoes, Coffee, tissues and semolina when she did the weekly shop and she went to three stores without success on consecutive days. She happened to call in to Sainsburys at 8am one morning and finally got what she was looking for. Telling me earlier, that she popped into Morrisons this morning to get some bits for our youngest son who is still having to work and the lady on the till, was going absolutely mental at some customers who were refusing to stand 2 metres apart to the point she rang for her supervisor.
SEMOLINA - I nearly threw up when I read that. Horrific memories of school dinners. I thought you must be bonkers....then I googled "uses of semolina" and got :- Semolina is a coarse pale-yellow flour ground from hard durum wheat and used to make traditional pasta. It can also be used to make pizza, bread and biscuit doughs as well as gnocchi. You learn something new every day!
Went to Asda yesterday and I was a bit surprised to see a couple with a kid of about 9 or 10, all going in together. You'd think common sense would have told them that only one of them needed to be in the shop? I've designated myself as our sole shopper so as to minimise the risk to my wife and (grown up) son.