Customers in supermarket queues buying 2 items

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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?

A 6 week old baby has just DIED from Covid. Some of you need to give your bloody head a wobble.*
A six week old baby died WITH covid , they did not say FROM ! So give YOUR head a wobble and start reading the full news story , not clickbait headlines

I can only hope that all the 'stay at home' brigade continue to stay at home when everyone else gets their lives back.

When the economy goes to shit it'll be the 'cheese deniers' complaining about that too...ironically....

We need to get back to work by end of the month or else the consequences will be catastrophic.They probably will be anyway

I dont drive either. I've managed to get 2 asda deliverys and have another coming next week . Also fortnightly fruit and veg box delivery from a farm shop and meet from the local butcher s that my son works in on a Saturday

Luckily I did some brexit prepping, I haven't bought loo roll since last year

Meat ffs

@EveryLifeHasASoundtrack

I have plenty of loo roll but no Asda deliveries, not even click or collect. So off to the shops more than once a week for fresh food

Aridane

I presume that was for someone else.

@LoveIslandVirgin i never said you werent entitled to your opinion i just said your tone is shitty stating my facts were not correct when for my shop it is, nothing to do with your opinion or your entitlement to voice it, everyone has there right to voice it wether i agree with it or not, for the sake of shop workers they should keep lockdown on but i also think people whose businesses arent turning over any profit should be if they can do so safely, if borris takes away lockdown he will take away our safety as literally most of the people who walk through our shop doors are not taking any notice in the one way systems or 2m distance and that puts me and my family at risk i dont get paid near enough to risk my life with everyone outside instead of half of us locked down and neither does anyone else

I am lucky that I live near a couple of small shops that are happy to deliver to locals. Let's rephrase that: I am DAMN FUCKING LUCKY that I live near a couple of small shops that are happy to deliver to locals. If I didn't, I would have to choose between booking a delivery slot from a supermarket- possibly 3 or 4 weeks in advance - or physically braving the supermarkets and their queues. And since I cannot drive (due to a relatively mild but definite disability) and am nervous about public transport at the moment, even if it were available which it often isn''t, I would not be able to do a 'big shop' and carry it all home. I would probably not go to a shop to just buy 2 items, but I wouldn't be able to restrict myself to only once a week either. I do get pissed off if people ignore social distancing rules (though on one occasion, the non-social-distancer who had aroused my fear and fury turned out on a second glance to be MY OWN SHADOW, which I suppose shows how the pandemic threat has scared me!), but I would never judge them on what and how much they choose to buy.

@EveryLifeHasASoundtrack - it was for @EveryFlightBeginsWithAFall!!

Sparkles333 Sorry what bit do you think I ‘ve missed exactly?
I’m buying neighbours shopping because they can’t, so guess what, other people’s shopping has become my business.
The government asked we stay at home going out “ when essential” so presumably, that’s their business too.

I’m not going to say anything to people that think it’s ok to go into a tiny corner shop to buy a litre of coke and an ice cream. I’m not phoning the police or tutting or anything But you’d be stupid to think it was limiting the spread of CV which is the whole point of the exercise.

And for information I’d be fine to get it myself and hopefully get some immunity actually. It just annoys me when people argue bollocks..

Sometimes people need to go out for their own sanity even if it is to the supermarket to buy two items.
My 99 year grandmother has done this every single day of her life except when my mother was born and now in lockdown and it has kept her completely alert, physically very active and independent. Since lockdown has stopped her the decline has been immense. Just geing able to do something as simple as popping to the shop and buying milk and a tin of peaches or whatever has unimaginable consequences on overall heath and both physical and mental wellbeing, ESPECIALLY in the elderly.

I’m not going to say anything to people that think it’s ok to go into a tiny corner shop to buy a litre of coke and an ice cream

So now you’re judging diet!

Perhaps on the measly pension the government gives them they can't afford anything other than a newspaper and cheese and have already done a big shop and can't afford another one. Perhaps they are lonely and needed to get out . Perhaps , they are not breaking any rules whatsoever and you should live and let live and stop worrying about others .Who made you judge, jury and executioner anyway?

We will probably all get covid 19 anyway eventually and the lockdown was to help the NHS cope with the outbreak and would limit the spread , not completely wipe it out altogether.

Ok, so what’s an essential food item

Well bread, milk and now cheese don't make the cut according to a significant minority on here.

Maybe the government should start delivering ration packs of gruel and vitamin supplements to every house, close all the supermarkets and have done with it?

So now you’re judging diet! Ha! No it was just what I saw people going into the local shop for.
The point is there isn’t an essential food. Of course the coke and ice cream could have been for low blood sugar. Maybe the of yogurt and crisps were an emergency lunch for someone out working.
However it’s stupid to pretend that it’s absolutely fine during lockdown to just pop in and out of shops for any reason, like before though. I‘ve certainly have gone to more than shop to find ingredients missing at my first shop. However I fully accept that’s not what I’m supposed to do and I’m not going to try and defend it on a thread.

I fully accept that’s not what I’m supposed to do

There’s nothing that says it’s not what you’re supposed to do though. That’s people making it up. There’s nothing at all in the guidance which says that if you can’t get all your shopping in one shop you have to make do and not go to another.

I think people just don’t think about it as much as the posters do on social media . They hear you are allowed out for out for exercise and food and that’s what they do. Keep 2meters apart? They are lost in their own thoughts and they forget. I don’t think it’s done to massively piss off the good people of MN. Some on you really need to find something else to do with your thoughts your anger will not change anything - except maybe your own health.

I know what you’re saying but lockdown is to prevent the spread - it’s not about shopping.The legislation is/was to ‘ stay home’ unless essential.

Were my additional ingredients essential? Nope because I could have bought the ready meal version or even just cooked something else for tea.

So whilst I wasn’t worried about being arrested I know that I’m not completely complying with lockdown. Staying at home guarantees you aren’t the one spreading it.

That’s up to you of course but I’m not one for engaging in competitive misery and “doing without” like so many on here seem to think they’re getting some kind of medal for. I do most of my shopping in Aldi but they don’t have everything I need or want so I get the rest in Morrisons. I can’t afford to do my whole shop in Morrisons and god knows this bloody shit is miserable enough without “going without” as well. I won’t do a tour of supermarkets if I can’t get what I want there, but I hardly think going to 2 shops once a week is a heinous offence or breaking the rules. I used to go about twice a day, popping in for random crap on a whim.

Why shouldn't they buy only what they want, or need, and perhaps being on a pension they were unable to keep doing or coping with big shops
OP that was a Stupid comment!!

Yes, this certainly bring out the worst in people. If I am for work at the post office which I often am there is a Tesco express with usually only 2 or 3 people in it and no queues and I have in the last 2 weeks popped in there if I have run out of something and that is actually pretty good for the country - it is earning money, paying taxes and spending money which is paying the wages of nurses and ensuring the NHS survives.