To find going to a supermarket an absolute ordeal

[Jellybean27]

God. Despite the social distancing, the few in few out, additional cleaning etc etc.
I found myself having a cry in the car afterwards. (Obviously whilst rubbing copious amounts of hand gel into my hands and avoiding touching my face until I get could get home and scrub fuck out of them for way more than 20 seconds)

My first time out of the house in days and it was seriously overwhelming.

Really need to sort myself out 🙄

I tried Tesco last night at 8.30 and there were around 40 people ahead of me in the queue outside but after standing for 10 minutes and only moving down three of the marked sections I gave up. I tried three other smaller shops for basics, or any alternatives, with no luck before coming home and crying.

My husband has been out this morning with a list of seven items (mainly fruit and veg), he visited five shops (three Co-ops, a McColls and a Sainsburys Local) and even then only got four items on the list.

I don't even enjoy my daily walk with DS in his pushchair - crossing the road to politely avoid the one or two people I meet, people staring from cars, curtains closed. It feels threatening and weird.

Quite the opposite here. I've been for a walk every day, and am trying to avoid people, obviously, but on the streets around home when people are near, everyone is smiling and nodding or saying thankyou as I move to give them a wide berth. Really nice atmosphere, with far more eye contact, smiles, waves, shouted conversations across the road with people. Also, of course lots of people doing gardening and happy to wave or shout a conversation across.. I was thinking of it as being one of many of the very nice things coming out of these dark days.

Huge thanks to the truck drivers and to the shop staff who are keeping the nation going at the moment. Horrendous you are having to put up with so many awful, rude and aggressive people

I work in a supermarket pharmacy, and really feel not enough is being done to protect staff. We're in close contact with too many other members of staff as we try and get through the ever increasing pile of prescriptions that people want dispensing. I'm sorry if we haven't got everything you wanted, or it's not ready even though you ordered it a week ago. We're doing our best and working 60 hours a week. Yelling at me will do nothing to improve your situation. Thank you to the very few customers who have acknowledged we are risking our health every time we go into work, but for the rest who have sworn at me or my team, had to be reminded at least 5 times to stand behind the arbitrary line on the floor that is all the protection we have or expected me to prioritise their prescription for viagra over everything else, sorry, I am going to call the duty manager and have you removed from the shop and couldn't care less about where you do your shopping in the future.

Im a supposedly an 'essential worker' so todays my first opportunity this week to go shopping. Me and DH went to Tescos, they would only allow 1 person from each family in, no issue with that, DH waited in car. It was quiet, no surprise it was 6.30am!, but they had no meat apart from pork, only full fat milk, usual no pasta, rice, noodles, hardly any frozen, no bread. I spent £16.00. That resulted in trips to Morrisons and Asda who had very long queues so abandoned those. Went to Iceland warehouse store, one in one out policy so had short wait, but no bread, no milk, very little frozen, got last 2 pizzas, spent £4.00. Ive given up, dont want to spend my 1 day off going from supermarket to supermarket standing in queues, I long for the days of normal food shopping 😞

I usually use the local small stores but had to go to Asda today. It was horribly stressful. I just wanted to get out as quickly as possible. Wont be going again

I went to our small Sainsburys today and it was great but I won't be going back to the greengrocers until the pandemic is over.

Maintaining social distancing was too tricky and I got into an argument when I suggested to another customer that picking up a loose vegetable with her bare hand wasn't really a good idea. She had no intention of buying it; she just wanted to show it to the woman she was with.

We didn't shout, swear, get aggressive or even raise our voices but clearly despised each other. I thought she was a stupid, selfish idiot and she thought I was a paranoid, interfering, condescending busybody.

@muddledmidget Hope you didn’t have to dispense the viagra prescription! Hopefully delays that guy spreading his “disease” any further!

@Jellybean27
Between you you went in 9 shops in 2 days?? That's a lot of potential exposure, to your family or to others. Could you be more flexible with your list, I'm pretty sure there were SOME edible things in the first shop you went in?

I went to Lidl today, only a short queue to get in and social distancing being observed inside, I found it quite calm, even got a bag of pasta, a bag of rice, and a loaf

Eh? @ACertainSupermarket

Suddenly everything seems sinister and contagious like a bad dream 😳
I don't like it either but how long before we all wearing 'sneeze screens'?

I can’t believe people are going round numerous supermarkets on the same day. You’re massively increasing your risk of picking up the virus (or spreading it if you’ve got it)! Use common sense!

I’ve been doing a bigTesco in the late evening and it is very weird and surreal but very chilled. Small queue. Better stocked although no pasta still.

Did M&S instead yesterday and it really was a pleasure. No queue, hardly any people and lots of discounted food.

I went today and I was excited to get out and away from the house it was so quiet and depressing once I was inside I just wanted to shop and get home. We’re on day 14 and it feels never ending.

@07Jellybean27 sorry, copied the wrong username!!

@MadisonAvenue
Between you you went in 9 shops in 2 days?? That's a lot of potential exposure, to your family or to others. Could you be more flexible with your list, I'm pretty sure there were SOME edible things in the first shop you went in?

Perhaps it should be more of a 'pot luck' approach, if there is no bread have pitta, or rolls, crackers or breadsticks.

I eat anything and can drink tea black, so perhaps more flexible with this.