If Old and Vulnerable are prioritised...

[NotVulnerableStillHungry]

...what the fuck is everyone else supposed to do?

Ocado - prioritising elderly and vulnerable
Waitrose - prioritising elderly and vulnerable
Sainsburys - prioritising elderly and vulnerable
Iceland - prioritising elderly and vulnerable
Morrisons - can't tell as 19014 in the queue trying to get in.

Prioritising the elderly and vulnerable is great, obviously, but it doesn't actually work if you don't have capacity to serve anyone else. Because then it's not prioritising! It's saying "We will not serve you if you are not elderly or vulnerable".

And surprise, surprise, people who aren't vulnerable still need to eat.

So I cannot get anything from any supermarket either delivered or to collect (and I've expanded my search area to 8 miles from my house, nothing). And my local co-op is stripped bare of literally everything except milk, chocolate biscuits and aunt Bessie's frozen yorkshire puds. What good is that, to anyone?

So you think it’s ok fir over worked and clearly under appreciated supermarket staff to have to do this. Seems an unnecessary task to me at this time.

Do I think it's okay for supermarket staff to... er... stack shelves?

Yes, yes I do.

It's bad form to be bitching about other posters on a parallel thread like this.

Our ASDA isn’t taking back substitutes. We can keep them and ask for a refund.

Really? Your rules? It still makes no sense to create extra unnecessary work. I assume nine of you are doing the work?

I don't know if M&S are prioritising these groups formally, but someone elderly was allowed to jump the queue in front of me in the middle of the afternoon today, which I felt was a bit much, but what can you do?

They are. When they open I think. However that’s too early for many. The elderly seem the worst at social distancing on my forays into the supermarket.

My parents are in the 'shielded' group and they can't get a slot either. I'm not sure who is getting the slots (fortunately we are able to deliver shopping to them but it's a 2 hour round trip, so not ideal).

I've given up on supermarkets but using online deliveries for veg and meat boxes instead. With those and the milkman I don't think I'll need to go to a shop for a few weeks, maybe longer really.