To think the Armed Forces should be manning supermarkets already?

[Worried01]

I think the chaos and lack of goods in the supermarkets is a bigger worry for most people than the actual virus at the moment.

Why haven’t the forced been deployed to keep the calm.

They could only let an amount of people in at any one time so the staff could better manage the maximum items people take and restock, keep the peace and deter the greedy panic stockers from keeping on returning to get more. Give prefer to the elderly and infirm.

Surely this is necessary before all the supermarkets reserves are all piled into peoples sitting rooms?

This panic buying is unlikely to abate now the schools are closing and we are being told it’ll be 12 weeks before the government know more about the spread of the disease.

Don’t be ridiculous

Something has to be done soonish. I’ve just come out of hospital after having life-saving surgery. We can’t get food, the shops are empty. At 7am the supermarket was bare. There are no supplies. I am going to have to try to hobble out somewhere else. There has to be rationing or stringent security.

Morrison’s 6am this morning - not much social distancing in the line but very calm over all - no hand sanitiser (am desperate for some as I home visit and work can’t source any) but got two bags of pasta as we have half a bag left and 18 big rolls (missing from my home delivery) and some tampons - home by 6:30 - people just need to change how they shop a bit

I do think hand sanitiser could be sold behind the fag counter to limit stockpiling but the rest is just a bit of hardship

You won't be able to buy hand santisers at a supermarket anymore. They were taken off sale on Thursday for the use of the workers @ghostyslovesheets

The army will be too busy removing corpses from overworked crematorium, like what happened in Bergamot, to bother with securing the stores

Indeed. Those nasty, scary soldiers will, as always, be wheeled out to do the shit, scary, grunt work, that civilians can't or won't do. They'll be considered good enough for that I expect

This is a role for the stores own security guards.

Not the military

Where do you live where the army is needed?!

Shops pretty normal here in East London...busier than normal yes but no one having a meltdown. I couldn't find any lemons yesterday even in the corner shop but that is about it.

Honestly, the British military have better things to do than help you do your shopping. They will be assisting with emergency planning by local authorities for example, helping adding logisitical expertise to committees of council officers. Military medical staff will also be busy with planning, particularly for helping with medical transport.

Shop security are there and the police are still functioning.

Don't wish for army on the streets - it's never a good thing in the long term even if you might be enthusiastic at the start.

Yours
Someone from a country where the army has been on the streets several times

Sorry, security in supermarkets is a role for the stores own security guards.

The post about additional mortuary capacity wasn't there when I started typing. That is the sort of logistic role that could be done by the military.