If we go into lock down and supermarkets are still open, how will the workers be protected?

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They might have masks and gloves but I've read that masks don't work
So how do the staff get protected?
Is it fair to ask staff, many who are students or part time mums or older people, to work with the public when virtually no one else is?

They won’t be. Which is why the rest of the public will have to make sensible decisions about who goes shopping and how often

In NE Italy you use self checkout or one person waits at the far end of the conveyor belt until the previous customer has left.
I’ve heard in Lombardy they have built Perspex screens around the checkout operator’s face level.

Lots of people will still have to work, OP, not just shop staff. Plumbers, cleaners, care staff, bin men, roadmenders, factory workers, postal staff, delivery drivers, health staff, police - virtually everyone apart from office staff will not have the luxury of working from home.

I know babdoc but I wasn't asking about them. I want to know how supermarkets will protect staff. The plastic screen is good but probably won't happen here. And if only one person at a time is allowed at the checkout this makes feck all difference to the person manning the till as they will have someone in front of them all the time.

Someone has to put the stuff on the shelves in the first place too, remember.

There will be limited persons in the building at any one time, enforced social distancing and the army will be deployed to ensure order is maintained.

I think all supermarkets that have the self scan facility should be promoting it as much as possible. No cashier contact at all, and no multiple handling of shopping.

I agree, sparkling. Can you imagine the theft?!

The staff won't be protected from the virus not as it stands they are most at risk imo

Exactly mrsjayy

Ds works in a small supermarket with no self scanners and he's worried about this virus. People regularly cough and sneeze at him when he serves them. He's amazed at the lack of hygiene going on.
So really, I was asking for him as I don't know what to tell him when he asks how he'll stay safe at work in a lock down.

Did anyone see this? Genuine sign in an Iceland shop.

Am just hoping the big supermarkets will have measures in place for this. Unfortunately as he's of the you tube generation, he knows already masks aren't stopping the virus effectively.

Clear plastic sheeting was used in China. The same could be done here.

Sb that's shocking!!!!

Yes ssd for them to need to put a sign up.

If I was your DS I would just try and keep my hands as clean as I can, stand as far away from the till as possible and remember to not touch his face.

One of my dc works in a shop they ran out of hand sanitiser they had to beg and borrow it till their order came parents were still insisting on "give. The lady your money" I really feel for retail workers

Just back from shopping at our local Tesco, I'm in Ireland, and they have lots of protocols in place. One person at a till at any one time.
Tape marking where you can stand, stand behind the tape and load groceries on to the belt, once loaded move straight to the end of the checkout and stand behind the tape again to pack your groceries. You're never in front of the checkout operator.
Payment by card preferred, all operators wearing gloves, lots of cleaning going on.

That's interesting thank you.

I am 30 weeks pregnant and work in a busy food shop 😩 I've been on annual leave but returning tomorrow so I'm dreading it! I've got 5 weeks left until I start annual leave/mat leave but I'm seriously considering trying to push for it to be earlier purely because I'm scared to go to work. There's not enough evidence to say pregnant women are or aren't more vulnerable but we are encouraged to get the flu jab when pregnant because of a weaker immune system. But then I also have a 4yo at school and my DH works in retail too so I'd probably be buggered anyway!!

I just had to venture out for nappies and there are still LOADS of people just going about their day to day - McDonald's, coffee, shopping, strolls etc. Is it likely there will be lockdown with so much of the population not seeming to be worried?

I work in retail on a uni campus and we have already gone cashless and closed all manned tills, only self service with two members of staff. In between helping customers, we are required to sanitise our hands.

If I was 30. Weeks pregnant and worked In a supermarket I probably would go off sick.