Just witnessed the future in Asda car park!

[Buttybach]

Just witnessed an elderly lady telling a man in a face mask that "he should be staying at home if he has it"

He then told her that he didn't have it and it was a precaution.

He sounded like he was Italian so she shouted "I bet you have been to Italy"

He then flew into a tirade shouting that she should be self isolating as she was over 70 - and to quote him "you're all going to F**ing die if you don't!

As I walked away they were still screaming at each other from their cars!

Is this the future! We will all be turning on each other!

Are most people decent, caring people? I mentioned this story on another post but my mum was in a supermarket where the shelves were bare, and just as she was bending down to pick up one of the two remaining packets of spaghetti, another woman swooped and picked up both packets. This other woman then went off marching down the aisle. She then turned back round, went back to my mum and handed her one of the packets of spagheti without saying a word. Her instinct must have been to take what she could, but when she thought about it, she decided to share.

It's making me think life will be like a horror film with people hiding out trying not to draw attention to the fact they have food/medicine etc. And people getting mobbed in car parks for their loo roll 🙁

Or crosses on front doors showing which houses are infected & therefore quarantined (there's a pox on this house style)

I'm hoping it will be more like the video(s) circulating of people playing music in Italy

I work in food retail (medium sized supermarket) and am happy to say we have had no aggression or large volumes of people bulk buying.
The customer base is generally older and respectful anyway, we have discussed news and local topics. The people that have picked up three packets of toilet roll have been called out on it, and have not retaliated.
It has been very busy and my shoulders and arms have ached like crazy at the end of my shift, but at least the time has flashed past

I am thinking (just musing, not pushing for one thing or another) about the elderly and vulnerable and giving them shopping time and I am not sure it will work particularly well. One they would have to break isolation. What if they need a relative or friend to drive them there but the timing is not convenient.
Not everyone in that group are cute and cuddly, what happens if they are buying a full on shop of £300+ for their family and clear the shelves of TR, beans, tea etc. Does the supermarket stop them and risk all the bad publicity?

Maybe signing up the elderly to online shopping and prioritising them that way is the way forward. Even with that there are issues, the initial set up would have to be done possibly by relatives or carers. If they can't use the internet and phone orders over that would need staff to take the calls, an increased numbers of pickers and a heavier workload for drivers.
This will of course mean less slots available for the able bodied. It would allow the over 70s to stay in isolation though.

I (tried to do) did our normal weekly shop today on my own without the kids but the supermarket looked like a plague of locusts had swept through it the only thing there in abundance was daftness and fruit and veg.
It was rammed with people, lots of whom where wittering about the need to stock up for isolation but bringing the whole extended family including elderly granny out on the shopping trip . Many many people who shouldn't have been there (coughing galore) and an elderly lady on oxygen, coughing and struggling (clearly in a high risk category)who I almost offered to take home but then I realised she was with family.
The checkout guy who I know quite well said it had been worse yesterday.
Common sense seems to have left most people.
Luckily I was quite happy to take advantage of the fruit and veg and adjusted my meal planning to suit. Did feel for the elderly guy who had obviously been sent by his wife to do the shopping and was stuck as they had nothing on the list and asked me what was going on. I helped him find some substitutes I hope they were ok.

It's pretty normal here. Couldn't get any paracetamol but apart from that everything I wanted was in.

Sainsbury’s was bizarre this morning. Out of all sorts of things and low stock on most others. I watched one woman but six boxes of chocolate Special K. Am assuming she just randomly grabbed what she could because of all the things to panic buy... However, my little local Co-Op just down the road has plenty everything, including toilet roll.

I had some comments at what was in my trolley. It was what I normally buy in a week for two people, we usually eat a lot of beans, lentils, tinned tomatoes, rice and so on, I wasn't stockpiling.

Oh god!

I haven’t been for a week but it was completely fine last week.

Our local Sainsbury’s is low on certain goods, but everyone seems very civilised and polite, no shoving or shouting. Staff being treated with respect as usual.
Same at the Co-Op and Waitrose apparently.

Maybe signing up the elderly to online shopping and prioritising them that way is the way forward
It’s impossible to get a slot at present. My local Sainsbury has no slots until April. I’m not sure how a supermarket could verify that you’re elderly? In any case all that would happen is that people would use Grandma to order for the entire family.

Our local Tesco on Friday was like Christmas at 10.15 am. Apparently the day before was worse.
Paracetamol, hand soap, pasta, pasta sauce, tinned veg and long life milk all gone.
Last night there was an appeal put out from a local football club asking for donations for pensioners, who because of people hoarding couldn’t get all of their weekly shop.
This got me wondering who would donate? People who haven’t hoarded, willing to share a few things from their cupboards or hoarders?
I think I know the answer.

Thermometer - cannot find one in stock for under £40 .
How do I know what my temperature is ? I get hot flushes (menopause not CV) so the "Oh my forehead feels warm" isn't accurate .

PETROL will be next .

Just back from our big Tesco. No loo roll, no oat milk, no bread apart from a sad little cluster of loaves of Hovis wholemeal (which apparently nobody likes) and virtually no baked beans, but other than that it was reasonably stocked and perfectly quiet and civilised. There were new signs up stating that abuse of staff would not be tolerated though :(

My local Sainsbury has no slots until April

I looked at the online delivery slots - nothing showing for the next three weeks .

How will the Bagless Delivery fare ? Usually it's in crates and we load everything into laundry baskets .

Are they going to go back to bags for a Deliver&Drop system? They'll need to , mainly to protect the drivers .

Our local Aldi looked as if it had been ram raided - I was restocking wine and coke (both in abundance) and tea (none - drink more wine I think)

Wonkylegs I was wondering that as well. Why bring the family. Several of the extras were explaining to their normal trolley pusher that panic buying was happening and it was other people while elbowing their way to the last remaining loaf of white sliced.…. we will have to start making more St Sherlock medals if this goes on much longer.

I haven't seen any of this where I live, apart from the odd person running and some long queues at the checkout. I think now people have stocked up a bit they will feel safer and calm down.

I find that supermarkets are full of scary types at the best of times! I'll be sticking to online or local shopping.

Well, this the result of forty-odd years of Thatcherism. We’ve been told to consume, and to look after Number One. Now the chickens are coming home to roost.

Rubbish. Not everyone who lived through Thatcherism is a selfish eejit.

It’s the same here in the USA, it’s like someone left the gate to the entitled twat enclosure open and they all escaped into the community.

One lady in my local supermarket yesterday politely pointed out to someone that there were people in the long long line before him. He definitely saw everyone standing there waiting across the aisle from the checkout, I saw him make a face when he saw how far back it went. We’d been told to line up along there so as not to block the aisle and an employee was moving up and down the line of checkouts and calling people across as they became free.

I was 2 people behind the lady who spoke up after he nipped straight into the checkout lane in front of her just as she was pushing her cart across.
“I didn’t see the line, you need to calm down.”
He was the one who red in the face and frothing, she was perfectly calm.
“And you need to get out of the way so I can unload my cart. Back of the line’s that way.”
“Yeah? Shut your smartass mouth. Fuck you.”
The employee then walked up and told him he could either go the back of the line or leave. He turned around and walked off in the direction of the back of the line. Asshole.

Heard a cashier on the radio despairing at how some people are behaving. People buying full trolleys of pasta or £400 of meat. A toilet manufacturer said there is plenty, he makes it in the UK if people stop buying shit loads. They are going to have to ration all of our shopping because of these idiots.

I was in the supermarket this morning and there were two people fighting over a bag of crisps. They were rolling about in the aisle snatching and screaming at each other. They were right next to me it was awful.

And then their Dad came over and told them to pack it in.

It was relatively lovely in a markses food hall that I usually hate, this afternoon. They were fairly well stocked, though, apart from pasta and hand wash.

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I wonder how much of this stuff is going to go to waste in the end. People hoarding pasta and tinned tomatoes who wouldnt normally eat it. When things go back to normal are they going to sling it. I hope they use food banks. I feel for those reliant on them now more than ever. I've put some bits in this week.