No children allowed in supermarket

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My sister went to Tesco with her toddler and was told no children allowed from next week. Understand this is wise for infection control but what if you're a single parent with tiny kids and can't do online shopping?

So now this social media campaign is taking up resources at Tesco call centre and social media channels putting already exhausted staff under yet more pressure.

No doubt staff in store are also going to be subject to more verbal abuse from morons on who can’t understand the term ‘if you can’

NHS are absolutely not letting visitors in hospitals so what do single parents do there? Anyone want to start a factually incorrect thread and social media campaign slagging them off and starting a boycott?!?

So now apparently single mums are going to verbally abuse staff, lovely analysis. I am a single parent and ive never verbally abused any staff of any kind and they are doing a wonderful job.

Stop slating single mums

Tesco isn't the problem people on here are

Oh for fucks sake, I asked! I assumed! I don’t know how they’ve coped but they’ve somehow managed, haven’t they? Christ alive. Are you people being such dicks in real life too or you just venting on here?

This morning saw a Dad with a primary aged boy going to the Tesco express. He left the boy on an iPad outside the store while he went in. Social services were not called and no one got kidnapped.

But if that poor man came on here and wrote that, I’m sure you lot would have jumped on him like the charming asses you are.

Fucking hell. Nobody would turn away a disabled person and carer. Single mum and child(ren) is no different. There is no solution to this as you can't have people not in your household looking after young kids.

There is a problem with behaviour at supermarkets but it's more often than not 2 parent families rather than single parent with kids. I've seen 2 parents, kid plus grandparents shopping together which is absurd.

Restrained children are not a problem. I've seen kids in buggies or confined to the trolley which is a perfectly acceptable solution imo. The next person who uses the trolley will have to clean it but they should be doing that these days anyway.

I know that this is just one store but they should not be discriminating against a group with no alternative at the moment. Disgusting behaviour by Tesco

Primary children can be anywhere between 4 and 11. A 4 year old on his own outside the shop is very different to an 11 year old who quite frankly could stay at home or in the car.

NHS are absolutely not letting visitors in hospitals

Our local hospital allows one adult or carer in paediatrics and one birth partner in maternity.

I'm interested as to why single parents should get priority. NHS workers and the vulnerable yes but why single parents?
If a single parent is ill, they need their food delivered as there's no other adult who can go instead. Sainsbury’s classify pregnant women as vulnerable.
Tbh there's lots of other groups who could do with priority online slots. My Ds works in retail so can't go during the 12 hours that they are open and I can imagine a lot of carers, police, fire service, delivery drivers etc being in the same predicament.

If you work at tescos could you raise it?

I'm concerned I can leave my 11 year old in the car but my 7 year old has sen

I wonder if they would stick to this rule if you showed up with a small child in a sling or carrier. Obviously not a solution for those with bigger kids but possibly worth investigating

There is nothing to raise!!! It is bullshit!

My children are expected to behave well in normal times. No touching, no picking things up, good manners.
I have seen children in supermarkets on wheelies etc, they have never been mine.

If I have to take them to a supermarket it's not for a jolly, I would rather have them safe at home. Because, I care about them and other people.
What's with the stereotyping?

@trumpton sorry, didn't read the whole thread I gave up after a few pages and went to the tesco email I'd seen last night.

stay well

Are single parents really saying that they don’t have a single friend/neighbour who could pick up some groceries when they’re getting their own?

Not a single parent, but a DH who works away for 90% of the year. Work is unsure if he will return at the moment, but if he does...

My family all live overseas.

I have some good friends, one has a large family, already struggling to buy stuff to feed her family with the limits. Why would she make her kids go without even more to buy stuff for mine? Another is also a single parent, same boat. The rest all live miles away.

I don’t like my neighbours, I don’t trust them, no way would I hand over money to them.

Ditto strangers from FB.

There is nothing to raise!!! It is bullshit!
Except for the shop its actually happening then?

I think the majority of people don't like to impose on people they don't know well. That needs to change, I think. Neighbours should help each other, and maybe it's something volunteers could help with in their own neighbourhoods?

I don't know, it isn't something my DH and I are used to doing, as we've always managed on our own. But these are very unusual times and we need to think outside the box.

This would have been easier historically, when neighbourhoods were more supportive of each other, I think.

this exactly. My family have moved away and one of my dc's is so badly behaved she's burnt bridges in the neighbourhood. We live in a grotty estate and no way am I flagging up my lone parent status to strangers. I don't want to ask another lone parent friend to put herself at risk for me.
I work PT too so the mythical MN support network is pretty hard to build.

I have family but they are the vunerable, one is shielded.

In my neighbouthood today there has been a stabbing and a police helicopter overhead for most of the morning, my son is playing in the back garden and the smell of weed in the air is overpowering. 😔

So do you think I'm going to be knocking on doors for help? I think not. We don't all live in "naice" areas.

I was housed here as a priority need homeless family after the marital home was reposessed after the loss of DH to a "institution" for his mental health and he's a danger to the public.

So I'm up shot creek without a paddle. I don't know anyone here 🤷🏻‍♀️

I haven't read all of this thread but I'm sure someone will have mentioned that they will have to leave young children alone in the house in order to go shopping?

My son-in-law is in that situation (my daughter died 20 months ago).
Their kids are aged 7 and 9. I am desperate to go and help them, but can't because of restrictions on 'unnecessary' travel (I live an hour away). At the same time, obviously, they should not go shopping together, because they might be carrying the virus.

Please don't take your frustrations out on single parents. Be supportive instead!

There basically need to be more deliveries from the supermarkets. There was talk of food parcels too. Is this a job volunteers could take on?

Clearly it's not realistic to expect people to ask neighbours. When are they likely to see them anyway?

sep the local drug dealers are out and about. Shall I ask them for help .
We get the smell of weed from the neighbours and dealers too.

A lot of people could do with priority slots but the supermarkets can't have slots for everyone. If a single parent is ill you get a friend /family member /fb group to go shopping and drop it off a short distance from the house.
You don't go out and infect everyone else. Yes pregnant women are vulnerable that's why they are on the list. Single parents aren't necessarily vulnerable so aren't on the list.
As has been said though children aren't going to be banned, not yet anyway.

I went to Asda this morning with DS. No issues whatsoever.

I went to ASDA and Iceland this morning (south east) no issues however I did notice I was the only person out with a child!