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Gingerkittykat · 01/04/2020 16:02

There has been a [[https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-news/scots-amazon-depot-hit-coronavirus-21792591?fbclid=IwAR03giRYScdXJOAh7HgFQuuLGIsdQ2zoh1fEQmVgu9fduZ28ywN8Hs9BClc confirmed case] of COVID 19 in the Amazon warehouse where my sister works. The guy works the nightshift, as does my sister.

Please think before you order.

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mumme111 · 02/04/2020 13:53

I've gone mental and bought lots off amazon lol got fuck all else to do 🤷🏼‍♀️

Tootletum · 02/04/2020 13:55

Sure OP I'll order nothing. That will leave all the employees at home and redundant within three months. Safe as houses, until they can't pay for their house and get evicted. So I'll order something.

Tootletum · 02/04/2020 13:56

@chocolatviennois has anything arrived? I'm desperate to order from Laura Ashley but was worried they might no longer honour orders. If it has I'm going wild!!

Flaxmeadow · 02/04/2020 13:59

I had an email this morning from Etsy, urging me to keep supporting them through online shopping

Do you mean you had an email from the managing director of Etsy?

goshdarnitjanet · 02/04/2020 14:01

Do you mean you had an email from the managing director of Etsy?

The email may have come from "Etsy" but Etsy is a marketplace for individual handmade sellers - if they were not trying to keep their businesses open they will have put their shops on holiday mode. "Etsy" is not forcing individual sellers to carry on working.

chocolatviennois · 02/04/2020 14:03

"My oh is a delivery driver, he’s out all day, has no access to soap and water, no PPE, no gloves, no sanitizer and is delivering dozens upon dozens of items."

Why doesn't your OH buy himself some plain normal gloves...I bought some from Millets for less than £10 before the shops shut. He could wear then when handling parcels. He could put some liquid soap in any old bottle and add water to it and rinse his hands with that. I thought delivery drivers were supposed to be leaving things on doorsteps and standing two metres back.

chocolatviennois · 02/04/2020 14:11

Tootletum - I received one package from Laura Ashley a week or so ago. Ordered a few more things over the phone yesterday. The lovely lady I spoke to at Laura Ashley said she had just gone through the worst fortnight of her life..I assume the worry of losing her job if the company is not bought. There are apparently a couple of companies interested in buying them. I was buying clothes. I think they are still selling some home furnishings eg ready made curtains but not anything that is made to measure at the moment.

Flaxmeadow · 02/04/2020 14:15

The email may have come from "Etsy" but Etsy is a marketplace for individual handmade sellers - if they were not trying to keep their businesses open they will have put their shops on holiday mode. "Etsy" is not forcing individual sellers to carry on working.

My boss shut her shops not long after the government advised that people over 70 should stay indoors. She might never open again, she risked her business and everything she owns and the reason she did this was
To protect her workforce
To protect her customers, many of whom are elderly.

She did the right thing, she put people before profit, and we, workforce and customers alike, understood and we respect her for it.

When all this is over, business will start up again. Bosses in all sectors will be recruiting and employees, and customers, will remember their former boss and how they behaved during this crisis and many, but not all, will be eager to work for them again, and to work hard at helping rebuild those businesses.

You reap what you sow

riotlady · 02/04/2020 14:46

@Flaxmeadow that’s great but how is it relevant to Etsy? They’re mostly made up of tiny businesses run by individuals working from their own homes. There’s no stores to close.

Baaaahhhhh · 02/04/2020 14:49

I've ordered loads of stuff. I am trying all the local suppliers first, to help keep them in business. Several of our local food, garden suppliers, farms, etc are desperate to keep their companies going. Why would you not want to do that?

Yes, I have also ordered some stuff off Amazon, but only if I can't get it locally.

Meckity1 · 02/04/2020 14:57

@ACautionaryTale and other yarn addicts

I'm all for keeping small businesses going, and you can get yarn direct from Marriners Yarns, though they also have a storefront on Amazon.

Not so keen on Deramores

littlecontis · 02/04/2020 15:10

I have also been ordering online from small local businesses to hopefully keep them going. Yes - "when all this is over, business will start up again." but, what are they going to do in the meantime without income? How are they going to afford food, mortgages, childcare?

Strugglingtodomybest · 02/04/2020 15:23

Do you mean you had an email from the managing director of Etsy?

Grin

I expect it was their social media manager who sent it.

Flaxmeadow · 02/04/2020 15:23

that’s great but how is it relevant to Etsy? They’re mostly made up of tiny businesses run by individuals working from their own homes. There’s no stores to close.

I was making a general point and its relevant to delivery. Because in general employees will remember those bosses who treated them right and reduced risk and those who didn't and customers will remember too.

If I found out that any employer was treating their workforce badly during this crisis, for example by putting delivery drivers or retail staff at unnecessary risk, then I wouldn't use that company again and if I saw a job going with them, I would not apply to work for them. As I said, my boss did the right thing. So I am eager to work for her again and recommend others to and recommend people shop there

Take hairdressers as an example of a small business. Some hairdressers might have shut early during the crisis and left a message on their shop door, or on social media, saying we are completely closed until the government advice says it is safe to serve our customers again. Another hairdresser down the road, might have a message on the door or social media saying the shop is closed but you can still call this number tel * (the obvious inference being that they are still in business and doing home visits). I wouldn't work for, or be a customer of the latter in the future. To me, they are putting their workforce, their customers and the wider community at risk. Presumably they are still ordering hair dye, hair extensions etc online and someone has pack it ,and someone has to deliver it too

I know I'm not the only one to notice, as social media tells me that people feel very strongly about these things and how business, large and small, are behaving at the moment. Like I said. They reap what they sow. That's business

wetpants · 02/04/2020 15:51

I have a handmade shop at Etsy. It’s just me, I have an office at home, lot of supplies in cupboards and I have carried on taking orders. I now print all the postage at home too and pop the packaged in the post box.

Etsy doesn’t force us to do this or that, many shop owners are staying open but quite many have chosen to go on a “holiday mode” until this blows over. Etsy still takes their cut but rest goes to us, the individual sellers.

I use Royal Mail for shipping and I post orders all over the world, US being the biggest customer base. I’m very thankful for still getting orders but also very stressed due to knee jerk reactions about “non essentials” and possibly becoming a target for online abuse.

ShootsFruitAndLeaves · 02/04/2020 16:33

@StarsThatTwinkle shitty rechargable batteries lose their charge. Low self-discharge (eneloop or similar) don't. Nor do lithium-ion (18650 typically)

CKoRn · 02/04/2020 16:45

There are people who've preordered video games a year in advance too, I mean - what's unnecessary is still being sold through Amazon but it's just not being fulfilled by them (in their warehouses with next or same day delivery). They're just like ebay right now, a middle man.

Roostersmum2 · 02/04/2020 16:49

I have ordered vitamin D, disposable gloves and a face mask each for myself and DH. I think those are pretty essential at the minute?

I'm spraying anything that arrives then disposing of the packaging immediately and washing my hands.

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