To not understand why groups of adults are shopping together?

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And blocking the fucking aisles as they walk around together...

...seriously, what is wrong with people?

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You can still leave the house as long as you're not self isolating due to symptoms.
Do get out of the house, but only send one of you to the supermarket.

Here everyone has to go in similar - one in one out - pub bouncers have been employed!

Even single parents aren’t allowed kids in store AT ALL

Volunteers and fetching max 3 days shopping for vulnerable and single parents.

It won’t last these crowds.

I thought that supermarkets and shops were obliged to control entry now and not let groups in?

I thought that supermarkets and shops were obliged to control entry now and not let groups in?

They are, this is MN mixed with a pandemic, so you have an added aspect to the virtue signalling and wanting a backslap with the hint of true danger.

@LolaSmiles i get out of the house. Just not meeting people etc. I was used to hustle and bustle of busy place so I kind of miss that.
It's funny because I am normally the one explaining people what stay at home means😂

I think the shock of it is that when you’ve been at home for so long, making big sacrifices for the good of everyone, you do get used to it and you presume everyone else is doing the same. DH went to Aldi today and he said it was awful. Group of 4 adults together, one picking up every single packet of strawberries, holding it right near their face and putting it back. He was waiting (at a distance) to pick up a packet of strawberries and they were absolutely perplexed as to what they were doing wrong.

He also said there was no limit to how many in the shop at a time, no protection for the checkout staff, no signs, basically everything was a usual but with some markers for the queue. Which apparently everyone ignored.

He came back fuming, they could be doing so much more.

DP and I don't have a car and now we are shopping for his elderly parents too. If we go together we can carry more.

Aww thanks so much @MaryHerbert and @adaline for telling me what I do and don't need, so incredibly helpful.
I'm sure you guys are getting by on gruel and goodwill but I need to feed my children and I will not be made to feel bad for doing it.

I'm sure you guys are getting by on gruel and goodwill but I need to feed my children and I will not be made to feel bad for doing it.

Well, around here you wouldn't be allowed two of you in the shop and there's no way your DH would be allowed to come in just to pay. They have a strict customer limit and only one adult is allowed in per trolley.

If people didn't keep trying to get around the rules then perhaps they wouldn't need to be so strict in the first place

I agree at least some of them will be doing it because they can't carry it alone. I go shopping alone (for two adults, a 9 year old, and a dog), and it is hard to carry it all. My arms still ache two hours after getting home.

And others may have combined their walk and shopping.

And others may be disabled with carer.

And others may need to discuss/decide what items to buy when what they wanted is not in stock. It can't always be done via phone, for various reasons.

Just save your ire for companies screwing people over in this situation, rather than individuals or families you know nothing about.

Our local morrisons are doing 1 person 1 trolley (unless you have young children) some of the older generation were not happy at this! Not sure if they don’t understand the importance of it or not.

Local Sainsbury's (one of only 2 shops in my town) was restricting the number of people allowed in their store. All single people in the queue besides me. I get to the entrance with my two DC's and am tutted at immediately by the member of staff. But I'm a single parent to 2 under 3, and am the only adult in my home, so it's unavoidable but I was still made to feel bad for it. Sometimes people need to have a little more understanding

@adaline he queued up with his trolley like everyone else but came straight to me and took the extra items.
We've had a discussion about the safest way to do this, the options for our family seem to be shopping more often,
visiting multiple shops or one trip to one shop the way we did it.
We chose the way we thought had the minimum exposure.

The restrictions are there because people over bought, not because I wanted to make a chilli for 6.

I totally agree. I had to shop today. In the queue to get into tesco: a couple in front of me; a woman behind me with two older teenage girls, a couple with a baby in a pram. Seriously why.

And not on a place where people could walk. They would have had to drive.

Supermarkets may be obliged to stop groups but I can assure you that this SW Lon branch of Asda were doing precisely dick all about it.

Are mumsnetters now policing what we are allowed to buy?

Can't believe you lot are critical of someone buying god damn tomatoes and kidney beans. Are we only allowed to eat bread, milk and eggs now?

Yes that was a new low Grey. Someone being told they didn't need those tinned tomatoes and kidney beans, they wanted them.

I suppose instead of 'wandering' around together (I would call it shopping for essentials) one of us could wait outside

I did see some couples doing that today - well done them!

70+ here. Fortunately I can drive, and I leave DH at home. However, if I couldn't use the car I have a shopping trolley that takes loads, and a back pack. I can't carry much in shopping bags. DH doesn't really want to come, and I prefer to shop on my own anyway. I went to Morrison's a few days ago and it was reasonable. No large groups, but several couples. I live in an area with several supermarkets and smaller shops like butchers and greengrocers. Very lucky.