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.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-52090441

I doubt many people will be popping to the shop purely for Easter eggs, it will be a part of a big food shop. They are essential for the children expecting them on Easter Sunday.

This is why we need to revert to normal and get these powers off the books asap.its frightening how fast police will make their own interpretation and you then basically become subject to a single police officer's interpretation. Like that a selfie (ie. In your own) is now somehow a crime when walking the dog. Nowhere is that stated!!

The government haven’t gone full on 1984 yet, we haven’t been given a list of ‘essential’ items.

I honestly couldn't care less about Easter or Easter Eggs but I do think it's important to keep some nice things for the kids to look forward too - It's miserable enough being stuck at home all the time for them. The police are over-stepping someone needs to slap them back into place.

I’m quite concerned about a backlash due to some ridiculously over zealous interpretations of the new rules that don’t seem to have any basis in law.

All food and drink items are allowed. No such thing as essentials. If the purpose of your trip is to buy any food or drink item, even one frivolous item, it's lawful

shampoo not an essential item. apparently if we all desist from washing our hair for long enough it reverts to self-cleaning mode. Lol.

and don't forget, it only takes one g.p signature now to send you to the looney bin (that's my bugbear at the mo...)

What a load of crap, there's loads of Easter eggs in the shops round here.
It's common sense, isn't it (or at least you'd think) if you were going to the shops JUST for an easter egg that could be deemed non essential, but if you got them in with your shopping of bread/necessities etc then it's fine.

I'd rather have the delivery truck filled with toilet roll than half toilet roll/ half Easter eggs at the moment, so if the delivery team are short staffed, this might make sense. Easter eggs take up a lot of room.

If you read it properly there are no restrictions some heavy handed idiot thinks they know better but if you want to buy a Easter egg you can .
Newsagents are allowed to be open they sell cigarettes/ newspapers/ chocolates etc all can argue are not essential.

I tried to buy 4 in my weekly shop, as the dc grandparents wanted 2 for my dc and so did I. Was allowed 3. Thought it was a bit daft as shelves were full. Not going to argue with staff who are already putting themselves at risk so we can shop.

Tesco is knee deep in Easter eggs this morning and no one argued with me buying more than 2 chocolate items.

I think 3 is the limit for most things at the moment.

Kids are having a shite time at the moment. Let them have their Easter Eggs. I even bought a small one for myself before lockdown. I shall enjoy it Easter Sunday.

The law states that we can go out to buy food, and doesn't limit the food we can buy. Chocolate is food.

Frankly, I'm astonished that, with so much on their plates, the police and local authorities can find time to make a fuss about Easter Eggs. Someone needs to have a very, very strong word with them about priorities.

In the supermarket where I work, someone tried to claim that a dozen bottles of Coke was 'essential shopping' yesterday.

People have absolutely no common sense. Besides, haven't most people got their Easter Eggs in already? Bloody things have been in our warehouse since Boxing Day.

Going out to buy an isolated item; poor planning and increasing risks by additional trips.
Buying Easter Eggs while buying other essential produce; minimal additional risk, no problem.

Admittedly I was unusually prepared and bought ours (and DS's birthday presents) a couple of weeks ago as the odds didn't look great for buying them closer to Easter and I didn't want to risk trashing a 7th birthday/ Easter in one fell swoop.

The Derbyshire police drone footage looked overzealous, but with the scenes of crowded honeypots in the county a few days earlier, they wanted to hammer home a blunt message of don't travel to exercise. The regs of the cars in the carpark were cars registered to places like Sheffield, not nearby villages like Barlow, and someone had removed the obstructions trying to close off the car park. Also a fall off the edges from a careless tourist is likely to involve Mountain Rescue and a lot of unnecessary resourcing from agencies like police and paramedics whereas a sprain in a local park is much simpler for health services to deal with.

@Zaphodsotherhead, if your employers don't think that people should be buying coke, why do they have it on display?

If any supermarket tried to make me justify everything in my trolley, they'd very quickly lose my custom.

And what about households where it's the Easter Bunny who brings the eggs? What are the parents supposed to tell the kids? "sorry, the Easter bunny has Coronavirus"?

JudyCoolbar those cokes were the ONLY shopping that the customer was doing.

There was quite an argument. My manager sent them packing eventually.

NOBODY needs to go to the shop just for coke.

Besides, haven't most people got their Easter Eggs in already?

I haven't
I'm never very organised at the best of times and always leave it to the last minute

Need two of them as well, hope I don't get stopped by the Chocolate Police lol

Is the objection that the customer was buying so much coke there would be none left for anyone else? Fair enough. If it's because you personally don't consider fizzy drinks to be "essential" then too bad, none of your business. This crisis should not be used as an opportunity to police other people's diets with an aim to removing as much joy from their lives as possible.

As usual, it's easier to blame the police and pretend you are better than anyone so rules don't apply to you.

(generic "you", I am not addressing the OP, just reading some of the comments).

As said many times, easter eggs on top of your necessary shop: that's fine. Adding on the easer eggs already in stock, obviously.

Making special trips to buy one, that's what the problem is.
Since when is an Easter egg (or shampoo) essential? You add it to your monthly or bi-monthly shop. You don't make a special outing for one.

I love it when people are trying to pretend they don't understand obvious rules and police reactions.

"People have absolutely no common sense. Besides, haven't most people got their Easter Eggs in already? Bloody things have been in our warehouse since Boxing Day"

I haven't. I buy Easter eggs when the schools break up for Easter holidays so a week or so before. I think that'll be another thing to order online so I don't get told off by a judgy shop assistant.