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?

Ffs, when will these old people learn to do as they are told!

We’re in lockdown to spread demand on the NHS. I wish people would lose the idea that we’re doing it to benefit “the elderly”.

Too true. None of us are doing this to save people we have no clue about. We are doing it because it's been enforced and nothing more.

Mind you, if the Chief Architect of the lockdown can break the guidance to dip his wick, more than once, why should any of us bother.

The OP is the reason I feel I have to buy bread when I go shopping, just in case someone is judging.

The shopping basket Stasi is soooo early April. Move on and find something else to be outraged at. No one walking a dog twice a day round your bit?

This also has a shelf life. For a more long-term fulfilling hobby which you can keep doing after the pandemic, I'd suggest going through your neighbours bins after dark each week to see if they've put anything recyclable in with the rubbish. You can put photos on Facebook, report them to the council and phone 999.

@Alsohuman yes but isn't most of the demand on the NHS made up of the elderly who catch the virus? Genuinely, I'm not being snarky.

it's their choice

But it isn't, many of the 30,000 people who are dead would not be dead if people had moved around less and therefore transmitted the virus less. It's wrong to suggest that were each only responsible for ourselves. The whole point the lockdown is that our actions impact on others. We need to reduce our contact with others.

If my foregoing a trip to buy only half a cucumber I 'need' for a recipe means that someone doing their essential shop has less chance of catching coronavirus and passing on to someone else then it's reasonable for me to do that.

Where OP went wrong is in assuming there weren't extenuating circumstances, maybe they were, maybe we'd all agree it was reasonable for them to be there - maybe it was their first foot out the door in weeks, maybe someone in the household can only eat cheese, etc.

I have more of an issue with posters on MN who defend their right to go and buy one unnecessary item every day if they want because there's no rule to say they can't. Those people are confirming that they're just plain selfish.

Saving the world one big shop at a time.

The regulations do not limit or say the number of items you can buy - they say in England you can go out

"to obtain basic necessities, including food and medical supplies for those in the same household (including any pets or animals in the household) or for vulnerable persons and supplies for the essential upkeep, maintenance and functioning of the household, or the household of a vulnerable person, or to obtain money, including from any business listed in Part 3 of Schedule 2;" www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2020/350/regulation/6/made

I went out with about 50 items of business post this afternoon to the box by the post office by car and then went into Tesco Express - no queue and 2 customers in the whole shop. I bought 3 items I needed as I was just by there and it is allowed by law.

Saving the world one big shop at a time.

Most people are coming around to the notion that all this judging of people's actions and even shopping is completely unnecessary and makes you look a total twat. You'll get there soon OP.

Ohhhhhhh ffs. I hope you photographed them and stuck it on facebook. Honestly. What will you do for fun when lockdown is lifted? Police random schoolchildren and report them to the Head for not wearing full uniform?

*eyeroll

She might be making a massive fuck off cheese board for all you know OP 😂

Saving the world one big shop at a time.

Shopping ..... Every little doesn't help.

You don't get any points for being down to cupboard dust you know but I guess you want to demonise over 70s who want some cheese you can get what you want from the supermarket .

I've seen countless elderly walking past my house, totally up to them and none of my business

But you say that as if they're doing something wrong, being out for a walk. Going out for a walk every day is not only permissible it's desirable for physical and mental health.

@Smilethoyourheartisbreaking

I've been called that more than once, without the panic buyer bit

I popped out for a bottle of wine last night. Just fancied it. Stuck to the distancing rules. It worth the risk, the wine was lovely.

Sadly they’re not though, they are putting everyone else at an increased risk so I think people have a right to have a problem with them

I have more of a problem with people like you 🤷‍♂️

not sure why it's got anything to do with anyone else what others are buying and how much of it. mind your own business

Anyone of any age can go to the shop to buy as little as they like. I’m fine with that.

Not observing social distancing around others makes them total selfish cunts though.

Our local Co-op has distance markers and a one way system. Everytime I’ve been in everyone politely and considerately observed it.

Except last time when one selfish bastard walked the wrong way back round the whole store. Went right up to people all the while giving a hard stare directly in the eye, obviously enjoying making other people uncomfortable. Total power trip.

For a can of Coke from the chiller by the front door across from the checkouts. Twat.

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.

BINGO!

I need a cigarette. And I don't even smoke.

@Kordelia

No, they certainly aren't wrong in the slightest.

We've got one chap here who must have a dog fitter than Usain Bolt, he's up and down the road more times than the postman. I only see him as I'm at the table tapping away on my laptop.

I go to the shop all the time to top up. I also get an online shop. Couple of days ago I went just for multipacks of crisps.