Banning Easter eggs a step too far

[VivienScott]

I’ve just read that some officials are cracking down on shops selling Easter eggs as it’s non-essential. Isn’t this all going a bit far now? Easter eggs aren’t essential but a chocolate bar is? Feels like some people are letting a minuscule bit of power go straight to their heads.
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@Iwalkinmyclothing I handed it back, was that bad? I didn't want it - dh is too snobby about his dark chocolate to eat it and I don't eat chocolate . I suppose I could've baked with it. I'll try for another one next week. But omg - are my kids finally growing up

I didn't realise you could still decline substitutions, I could swear I read supermarkets were making people accept everything? Not sure if that's right though. I've accepted everything and am planning to drop some stuff off to food bank which I know won't be eaten.

Would be nice if I could decline some stuff though as it's costing me a fortune!

IS there actually a problem with this? DH bought four with the shopping this morning.

I bought my parents Easter eggs yesterday with my weekly shop - will have to drop them off as they're socially isolating & it will cheer them up!
Also picked up some pretty violas to plant at home to cheer me up.

They would cry if they don’t get the right chocolate??? Good heavens. How would anyone ever cope with rationing? You could have used it in baking and it’s better quality than the high sugar stuff your dc want. Perhaps a bit of education in chocolate ugh be a topic of learning? Try the Maya civilisation?

More reality that’s what kids need at the moment isn’t it!😂

Reality? What’s that got to do with anything? Just do a topic on chocolate so they understand chocolate is something wonderful. Why do they cry if they don’t get the brand they want? My DC would have accepted an alternative. Your DC sound pampered. I don’t know why you didn’t gift if you someone? My DMs neighbour gave her a chocolate Easter bunny yesterday. DM is 96 and was over the moon. She didn’t say it was the “wrong” chocolate. Would not dream of it!

Calm down Jesus it’s only a semi humorous post about chocolate. Did you read my follow on post - or we’re you too busy frothing - it was no big deal. 🤷‍♀️

They didn’t get the bloody eggs I handed them back - we didn’t wish to keep them, they were not what I ordered and I am not going around the neighbourhood offering chocolate - did you not get the stay at home message?

I don't think swapping a mini eggs 3gg for a dark chocolate egg is really sensible. Dark chocolate is an acquired taste and one not favoured by kids. Swapping for a celebrations egg, a Cadbury or rolo or maltester or any other 'normal' egg would have been much more sensible

I really don’t give a F about your chocolate dilemmas. But...... Neighbours are shopping for the elderly and being neighbourly by giving little presents. People are not taking delivery slots (when they possibly don’t need them) and making work by sending perfectly good produce back because DC are too pampered to appreciate it. Supermarket workers are flat out and you send back chocolate!? What a spoilt entitled family you are. What of that didn’t you get?

If your DM and DC are so lovely, Bubbles, why are you so needlessly unpleasant?

Also an alternative is for eg swapping a mini eggs egg for a normal Cadbury one, or a green and blacks for a lindt for eg. Not swapping a milk chocolate 'kids' type egg for a very 'adult' type egg. Don't blame you for sending it back. When supermarkets do substitutions you'd think they'd be sensible

bubbles for goodness sake give it a rest. You're one of those people who just relish the chance to get on their high horse and tell others how to do quarantine 'properly' aren't you? Perhaps she should've sent the egg to you, through the post (and putting more work for the poor postman)

Let's also remember that while supermarket worksrs are busy etc etc, they are doing a job they chose to do.

It’s not needlessly unpleasant to point out that at the moment people shouldn’t be making extra work for supermarket staff. It’s that simple. The chocolate can be passed on as a present. That’s a kind thing to do. Stressed supermarket workers don’t want to deal with these returns right now. I guess they didn’t get the chocolate they wanted or a suitable substitute because there wasn’t a suitable substitute. You can tick the no substitute box. What do you not understand about not making unnecessary work at this time? God help us all!

Quarantine isn’t practiced by many. The elderly are not quarantined. Please understand that we need to be reasonable in our habits and yes, I’m social distancing and going shopping as little as possible and no, I don’t have food delivered because I don’t need to. I’m trying my best as is everyone I know.

Putting food back in the system is time consuming and leads to more handling. At the moment we should not do it. Are you saying the NHS workers should be bothered with trivial issues because that’s the job they chose to do! We need people in supermarkets to get food in the shelves. Not deal with returns which didn’t need to be returned.

I'm not paying for something I don't want and won't eat! My last Ocado delivery substituted 'normal' Actimel for 0% fat. I don't eat anything with sweeteners so I handed it back rather than waste it as it's really not the sort of thing I'd be offering to the neighbours!

A while back Ocado substituted my 6 boxes of £1.70 Twinings peppermint tea for 6 boxes of £9.99 Harvey Nicks tea. Even if that had been in the current situation I would have handed that back!

I thought Ocado donated the food that got handed back to food charities - didn't they have a member of Staff come on here to say it never went back into the warehouse.

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I think if this crisis has shown one thing, it's the power-hungry and authoritarian police that we have. Many are revelling in the chance to boss people about and over-reach their powers.

It's certainly shown their constant cries about lack of resources to be nonsense.

Agree..on my shopping trip yesterday we passed 12 police cars!