Customers in supermarket queues buying 2 items

[justasking111]

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?

I bought just a single pack of courgettes in waitrose this week.
I had just done a entire week's shop in Tesco across the road but they had no courgettes and two of this weeks meals needed them

Popped into Iceland today and bought 2 packs of on offer Magnum ice creams and 2 Milka bars. Tonight I am getting a delivery from Tesco. I shall buy what I fucking well want

I went just to buy 4 cans of strongbow & a giant bag of popcorn yesterday. If anyone had questioned me I'd have shoved the cans where the sun don't shine. I'd collected my pets ashes from the vet earlier that day & those items were essential to me last night. You never know what other people have going on in their lives so don't judge!

I "pop to the shops" every day. Sometimes I buy one item, and it's not necessary.

So There.

All over 70s have not been told to shield.

There are two levels of high risk. "Clinically vulnerable" and "clinically extremely vulnerable".

over 70s are in the "clinically vulnerable" group which hasn't been asked to shield, but minimise contact. "Clinically extremely vulnerable" have been asked to shield.

I'd be grateful to them if I were you, OP. If they hadn't been buying their selfish and uneccessary fripperies you'd have to find a whole other thing to feel outraged and superior about. They've saved you a job.

I went out for a single box of baby wipes earlier. I got an ice lolly when I was in there too.

Stick that in yer pipe and smoke it.

People who shop little and often will be in contact with more people than those who go out infrequently.
Ergo those who shop frequently are a greater risk to others.

Rubbish. It took me five minutes at most to buy my bread and milk yesterday. I didn't come within three or four metres of anyone and I used the self checkout. I could do that every day and be in less contact than when I do my big shop in one go, which takes ages.

This whole thread is pure ageism again.

I have to accept that posters on here know over-seventies who aren't following the guidelines, just as I have to accept that there are grandparents who don't help with childcare and are quite appalling human beings..

My experience is the opposite, and equally valid, I assume. I'm a very fit seventy year old with no underlying health conditions, not on any medication, not overweight and still walk for miles every day (in quiet residential areas observing distancing) but haven't been to a shop since lockdown started. My friends are all similar, though a couple have been to a shop once or twice when they had to.

They also all looked after grandchildren till Covid hit, and several travelled to a different city nearly two hours away at least once a week and stayed overnight to help with childcare, again under normal circumstances.

Pity their daughters-in-law don't post.

I went on a Sunday morning and was surprised at how many people were piping in just to get a coffee from the Costa machine. And yes, the worst ones who don’t give a hoot about keeping the distance are always the old ones.

Honestly, I have not seen my partner for 5 weeks to protect people like the random idiots who repeatedly stand by me everytime I go to the supermarket.

The sort of attitude on here is exactly why the death rate in the uk is the highest in Europe. Maybe if you had a police force that enforced lockdown rather than danced about and made suggestions, people would realise just how serious the whole thing is.

Yet we are told that if we go out to buy bread as we have zero food in we are killing our grains?

😂

Not piping, popping in for a coffee.

here an OP is concerned about an elderly person putting themselves at risk to buy a newspaper being called ageist shite.

That’s not how the OP’s posts read to me at all, and I sure as hell don’t believe the desperate drip feed about them breathing down her neck.

OP, if you don’t want to be thought of as an ageist arsehole and colossal dementor, don’t post the sort of thing an ageist arsehole and colossal dementor might post.

Just been told by a friend that there are loads of ice cream vans around her neighbourhood today, and queue's of people buying them. Takeaways .

Let's not forget that not so long ago the OP would have been getting morally superior towards anyone with a full trolley "hoarding and panic-buying"

Where will all the nosey judgmentalism be redirected when this is over and done with?

fronttoback where does it say that?

i'm only interested if there is a video of people fighting or getting arrested

Like the black Friday bun fights? I'm so confused and conflicted and deprived of normality I am finding it harder and harder to give a shit about anything either way.

Everyone is offended about everything. I think we already in the verbal punch up arena.

Certain people who might want to shield in my town can if they want to. Volunteers are helping... those who dont can crack on with zero expectations of empathy
Maybe that's the PC answer?

This whole situation is driving me batshit crazy now

A lot of older people don't eat loads......so that cheese may have been important.💁🏻‍♀️

My uncles weekly shop consists of bread, cheese and ham for toasties, a couple of tins of beans, lettuce, tomato, cucumber, 7, ready made porridge pots. A bag of bananas and a bag of apples. That's him done for the week. !

So if he ran out of ham or cheese midweek I can see him going out for that one item.

They'll be back to attacking parents whose children behave like children in public. Perhaps a toddler will cry on a bus or something and they can get all ranty about the noise imposition.

@Pinkflipflop85 who you gonna call?
'THE' COVIDBUSTERS!! ♟️

Since all this started I don't think I've been able to get everything on a shopping list even once, so while I do try to do without until next time, it gets wearing to come out of a shop with half the ingredients for a meal yet again so yes people do pop into shops to pick up one or two items.

Maybe the lady buying the cheese and the newspaper had already been in one shop and not been able to get what she needed.

Also, the number of cases and deaths are slowing so even if people aren't following lockdown as perfectly as some people think it should be, it is working.

OP, you need to remember that the aim of lockdown is to slow the rate of infection, not eliminate it, which is impossible. People still need to work, use public transport, etc and their exposure is probably far greater than that of the people who go to the supermarket a couple of times a week.

When they were talking about the app on the news this morning, they said that the risk of transmission from walking past someone in a supermarket aisle was pretty much zero - this was given as an answer when someone asked if all the people who had been in a shop at the same time as someone who reported symptoms would be told to self isolate, which they won't - this will only happen if someone has been in prolonged close contact with someone likely to have the infection. Otherwise they almost certainly don't have it.

I'm with you op definitely. I work in a shop and the amount of customers who just pop in for paper because it gives them a reason to come out is astonishing. Anybody who wants information is not going to get it from a newspaper. Risk your own life if you want but please think about shop staff and their families.

I think it’s crackers. Unless you’re getting a trolley full, just go to the nearest little shop. Queueing at Sainsbury last week, there was a big line. I watched one guy go in, back out 2 minutes later with a sandwich and a drink. Bonkers. There were several people without a basket or trolley. I couldn’t be bothered unless I was doing a full shop.

Covidbusters 😂😂😂😂