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Customers in supermarket queues buying 2 items

774 replies

justasking111 · 06/05/2020 14:13

After a week of emptying cupboards reluctantly went out this morning. Standing in Tesco queue, two over 70s ladies behind me. one had given the other a lift. What do you need the driver said, oh just some cheese and a newspaper. They were not switched on by social distancing either despite the clear marks on the pavement.

Now I do think if you are over 70 and determined to get out well on your head be it. But for two items, for christs sake.

AIBU I being unreasonable to think that if you go to a supermarket it is to seriously stock up not for 2 items?

OP posts:
BirdieFriendReturns · 06/05/2020 23:25

www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8281943/amp/So-elderly-meant-Matt-Hancock-sparks-confusion.html

“The Health Secretary last night rubbished reports that healthy over-70s were among the 'clinically vulnerable' who had been told to shield for 12 weeks.“

“ Responding to the 'false' report, the minister said: 'The clinically vulnerable, who are advised to stay in lockdown for 12 weeks, emphatically DO NOT include all over 70s.'

He added: 'We have strongly advised all over 70s to follow social distancing measures.

'However, there is no 'blanket ban', and the suggestion that the clinically vulnerable include people aged 70 or older regardless of medical conditions is wrong & deeply misleading.'

londonrach · 06/05/2020 23:29

Yabu...ive done my big shop...then my washing machine broke so i walked as part of my daily exercise to buy handwash in local supermarket as none in house and not getting it fixed until after lockdown. You dont know the reasons behind why people there

tillyteatowel · 06/05/2020 23:44

We do online shopping and sometimes they fuck our meal plan up by not bringing things. So we need to go to the shop for just those things.

campion · 06/05/2020 23:52

DH came back from his bike ride with 2 bottles of prosecco and some strawberries. Essential.

Northernsoulgirl45 · 07/05/2020 00:01

Wow. I went to the shop today just to buy pizza. My probably autistic child won't eat any other brand and has a limited diet anyway. Maybe she should starve so I should buy a whole heap of duplicate items to keep random people happy.
O and online shopping isn't easy. Dh on shielding list had to wait two weeks for a slot.

Viviennemary · 07/05/2020 00:05

Can't see they've done anything wrong. They could live in the same house.

OneandTwenty · 07/05/2020 00:06

You know the guidelines are lifted and the lockdown is over on Monday don't you? So all of this is a bit pointless. We can go back to normal as if nothing happens.

It's unlikely a second lockdown would happen now, even if the second wave is bad, or the restrictions wouldn't have been lifted so soon. No more queues and distancing in supermarket or others, problem solved.

ACertainSupermarket · 07/05/2020 00:22

@OneandTwenty You know the guidelines are lifted and the lockdown is over on Monday don't you?

No. Where are you getting this idea from?

OneandTwenty · 07/05/2020 00:24

No. Where are you getting this idea from?

the papers and Boris speech, didn't you listen?

LemonadeAndDaisyChains · 07/05/2020 00:31

OneandTwenty Thu 07-May-20 00:06:26
You know the guidelines are lifted and the lockdown is over on Monday don't you? So all of this is a bit pointless. We can go back to normal as if nothing happens.

Eh?
Talk about listening to something and only hearing what you want to hear Confused
It didn't say that at all.
It said there was to be a gradual easing of lockdown and lifting of restrictions.
GRADUAL.
What that entails, nobody knows.
Not even you.

the papers and Boris speech, didn't you listen?
Yes, I did.
I wish people would stop making shit up and passing off as actual fact like "it's lifted from Monday!"
Nobody has said that.

ACertainSupermarket · 07/05/2020 00:37

@OneandTwenty
Social distancing is most definitely not ending.
Some people still haven't even grasped that concept yet, leaning all over you in the supermarket Angry.
Schools are up in arms about how it's going to work.

pigsDOfly · 07/05/2020 00:45

Clearly some poster think that come Monday, we're all going to throw our hats in the air, cast off our shackles and start hugging strangers.

Nope. It doesn't work like that.

Some posters have definitely got hold of the wrong end of the stick.

squeekums · 07/05/2020 00:49

poor woman just wanted cheese, now she got a whole thread about her of people melting down

oh and cheese is a damn essential lol

rainbowcat11 · 07/05/2020 00:54

I was doing the weekly shop yesterday and the woman in front of me was only buying tissues and cereal. I heard her say 'little and often!' To the check out staff. I would have thought most people have got out of that habit by now, I dread going to the shops these days.

purplechairandcat · 07/05/2020 01:10

I get a veg box delivered + can get extra food with it, and am utilising a fairly unknown and local online supermarket for anything else. I am still going to the shops every two weeks to buy bananas- yes, just bananas, literally the only thing I can't get from any of the online shops. Could have been a similar situation.

LemonadeAndDaisyChains · 07/05/2020 01:14

oh and cheese is a damn essential lol

YES!!

lol

Willow2017 · 07/05/2020 01:37

If you're going to go out for a handful of items that are not exactly obscure its better for everyone if you head to a smaller shop, which is less likely to have a queue to get in. The problem with people going out for one of two items isn't that it breaks the guidelines but rather than it slows the queues to get into the shop down for everyone else meaning that the weekly shop ends up taking even longer
Where do you suggest i find this smaller shop? I have a small supermarket 3 minutes drive away or several supermarkets 7 miles away.

And queues round here are actually very small and dont take long at all.

And why is someone getting thier weekly shop which could take ages more deserving of shopping in a supermarket than anyone else? If i only want 3 items i can be in and out in 5 minutes. If you are doing a weekly shop its probably 3 times that. I aint the one holding up the queue!

Tavannach · 07/05/2020 01:37

Clinically vulnerable and clinically extremely vulnerable are two different groups. Even for the extremely vulnerable it's advice not instruction -
Shielding is for your personal protection. It’s your choice to decide whether to follow the measures we advise.
UK Gov guidance on shielding and protecting extremely vulnerable people from covid 19.

Willow2017 · 07/05/2020 01:45

enjoy your sad lives and I will continue to keep my family a safe as I can from ppl like that
How are you managing that exactly Hamm87?

Some people still haven't even grasped that concept yet, leaning all over you in the supermarket

Thats been the case since this began for most supermarket staff by the vast majority of custoners who think we are somehow exempt from SD. Its nothing new!

Willow2017 · 07/05/2020 01:59

Omg government research read the news one person who has covid may not know they have it goes to the supermarket for 1 item pass ppl touchs other things pays for items touching more things walking next 2 ppl so that one person who is a selfish twat has now risked everyone else that is there it only takes 1 more to catch it then spread it more honestly ppl just dont understand basic virusescountless times.

Have you any idea how many times items on a shelf are touched before you pick them up?
Staff putting them out. Pulling stock forward, tidying shelves, taking away cardboard, checking dates and customers checking them out. I and my colleagues have spent entire shifts lately just doing shelves over and over to keep them faced up and tidy. Think about it.

DeeCeeCherry · 07/05/2020 02:29

Why were you there then, if you shop online? Had you run out of a couple of items? Like the 2 women possibly had, too...

I hereby judge you 🙂

TwelveMonkeys · 07/05/2020 02:56

There are so many of these threads these days. Always the same thing.

"I just went to the park/supermarket/postbox/my back garden and a family/old people/young people were eating/walking/shopping/talking in a way I feel like they shouldn't be! I mean, I don't care what they do, but AIBU to be shocked to my very core that they're doing it???"

LifeIsAPotato · 07/05/2020 04:10

I went out a couple of days ago to top up my weekly shop, I bought Bread, milk and paracetamol. Hope no one was judging me!

HowCowBrownNow · 07/05/2020 08:24

Everyone is missing the point that the 2 people should not have been in the car together as they're not from the sane household.

People judging OP don't realise that a lot of over 70s have always ignored advice and are still going to shops every single day just for the newspaper as it's their daily routine.

When did the government say 'only go shopping for essentials but it's OK to nip out for a newspaper and lottery'

I work in a small supermarket so I have seen regular customers carrying on as normal.

If it's OK to go out for a newspaper I'll make a special journey to get long life Hazelnut milk. I've gone without since lockdown. My local supermarkets don't stock it.

Serenbunny · 07/05/2020 08:41

Might be on a very tight budget and can literally only afford those items that day. Maybe the risks to their mental health of staying in alone far outweigh the risks of catching the virus. Who knows what the reasons why. Wind your neck in & focus on your own behaviour.

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