Are the clothing sections of supermarkets open?

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I haven't been to a supermarket for a month. I need a few essentials, and randomly one child has got holes in socks every day for about 2 weeks. Just debating whether to get the essentials from the local shop or travel to the supermarket and get socks while I'm there. I had read that sone non essential parts of shops were closing.

@migginsmrs I'd definitely be happy to give her shopping list the once over. In case she's planning on doing something wild like buying a new toothbrush when she could replace the bristles on the old one with bits of straw.

Oh course we shouldn’t be buying clothes for the sake of it but we don’t know how long we will be on lock down for. Children will grow in this time and it’s not like we had lots of notice to be prepared for it! Also remember a significant number of people are going to work , have just had babies, growing in pregnancy etc so some clothes buying is still essential. Some people have a breath taking lack of awareness of anybodies lives except their own!

Aside from the obvious risk involved in taking a bag of clothes from a stranger, I'm not sure the police would accept that driving to someone's house to buy stuff is an essential journey.

FFS, in what way is doing that more sensible than grabbing some socks while you're at the supermarket anyway?!

Well, I totted up the amount of time it would take to buy all the clothes supplies one needs for a newborn if you literally haven't bought anything, (as was the problem posed for the class) and then totted up how many people you might have to skate past awkwardly in a supermarket (provided they even sold all that) during that time.

I suppose the police might say that's non-essential, but I'll tell you this. It would involve fewer people getting close to each other than ordering online from a clothes retailer.

It's almost like the nation of people who didn't wash their hands before March don't really have much idea of how to assess risk or avoid spreading disease.

M&S (one of those ones which sells food and a limited selection of clothes) had created an aisle to the food section with essentials (god I hate that word now) for children on one side and women on the other. They obviously don't think men need anything new. It was mainly underwear, pyjamas, basic T-shirts and also acted as a barrier to stop anyone wandering around. Boots also sell socks but the staff were complaining in the paper yesterday about non-essentials and browsing so don't know how long that will last.

Buy what you f-ing well want if you've gone to the shop.

Hmm good in theory @ArtisanPopcorn but if people should only be buying food and medicine then she shouldn’t be buying toothpaste either, as it’s neither, so she won’t be needing to brush her teeth. So actually, maintaining dental hygiene is actually MURDER. Along with buying toilet roll, shampoo, cleaning supplies. Not food and medicine, and RISKING LIVES to buy them.

Criticism of ASOS, which is a shop I will never buy from once this is over. As someone who has actually worked in a warehouse, it's probably not just them, either.

ASOS are ‘playing Russian roulette with people’s lives’ as they refuse to enforce social distancing in packed warehouses amid the Coronavirus crisis

The fast fashion giant, which has decided to stay open despite Government advice,has up to4,000 people at its warehouse in Grimethorpe, Barnsley.

Workers report no social distancing measures, a complicated clocking in system which means large numbers of people gather in a small area, and hundreds of workers all breaking for lunch at the same time.

www.gmb.org.uk/news/asos-playing-russian-roulette-peoples-lives

I would pick up socks when u do a shop,u can buy any item a supermarket is selling.

Oh I was hoping sainsburys had some Tupperware when I go (for my essential shop) later..now I'm scared I'll get shouted at!

When I last went to Asda, I had to buy 16 month old DD vests and leggings in a size up, because she thought that the start of a lockdown was the perfect time to have a growth spurt. I had bought most of her "next size/season" stuff already from FB marketplace etc but thought I had plenty of time to get the last few bits.

I'm going to buy a new small frying pan on my next trip, because the handle has just come off my current one. We've replaced it but it doesn't feel secure. I'm not going to make a special trip, just going to go down the relevant aisle when I'm already there.

The one thing this virus has done is show up the true selfishness and stupidity of people.

You’re not wrong there. Have you been looking in the mirror again?

this really has drawn the lunatics out of the woodwork. OP don't bother with socks until all this has blown over. If you let him do his daily walk barefoot he'll soon develop a leathery layer of skin so he won't need socks or shoes. We should all be wandering around in loin cloths fashioned from worn out clothing and gnawing on twigs to clean our teeth by Autumn. Quite rightly so! Rules is rules.

It’s really interesting how some people would really truly prefer to believe that other people are DOING IT WRONG than that they have good reasons for doing what they are doing. Like the whole thing with reports of more people out and about - immediately assume they are NOT TAKING IT SERIOUSLY rather than that coincidentally more people need to do a food shop or go to the pharmacy than a couple of days before. It may be that people are taking the piss, but why jump to that conclusion first? I think that reaction is an expression of panic and fear - far easier to assume that everyone is stupid and deliberately behaving dangerously than consider that things are complicated and people are having to weigh up difficult decisions under extreme circumstances.

Here, the OP just asked whether any of the supermarkets were selling clothing. Immediate assumption that she is TAKING UNNECESSARY RISKS and PUTTING LIVES IN DANGER when there is no indication that she isn’t following the rules at all.

@IvinghoeBeacon thank you, I have also reiterated a couple of times that I need other shopping, and haven't been to a supermarket for at least a month. I haven't been to work for 3 weeks, children haven't been to school for 3 weeks, we've seen no one and been nowhere.

I went to Wilko earlier in the week and they were letting ten people in at a time. I had to get cat food and cleaning stuff but knowing people are waiting for you to come out so that they can go in really concentrates the mind to get in and get out.

If I was going to go to a supermarket that sold clothes knowing people were queuing I would just grab what I needed quickly along with the food.

If there's no queuing system/one in one out etc and the aisles were more or less deserted I might not be as speedy but still want to not spend as much time out and about anyway.

I did the weekly shop this morning and I purchased a three pack of trainer socks whilst in the queue waiting to pay - and I didn't even NEED socks - I just impulse purchased! I also got some rum!

I'm going to hell I'm sure

Oh I was hoping sainsburys had some Tupperware when I go (for my essential shop) later..now I'm scared I'll get shouted at!

I have a favourite metal spatula, I use it everyday. Unfortunately the handle has now fallen off. In the past I wouldn't have any qualms about faffng about in the kitchen aisle of my local supermarket. Picking up and inspecting them to find the best one. Taking note of the prices and best value for money. Probably within 2 meters or bumping into other people in the same aisle, maybe not bothered about someone next to me sneezing with hay fever. Not giving it a second thought.

But now I think of my Grandparents and how they used to "mend and make do" and I found some child proof rubbery glue in my own grandchildrens craft box. I'm not at the dreaded getting the super glue out phase yet and the glue probably won't hold the handle together for long anyway but tough sh*t, I will just have to use a fork. Because the least supermarket aisles I have to traipse around the better. Might sound overly cautious to some but

I think it might be a good idea though, and I'm back tracking on my previous comment, for supermarkets to have a small aisle near the food section for essential clothes and especially for children clothes

Someone told me that Marks and Spencer have closed off everything but the food halls. If that's any help to anyone

Great, think I’d rather pick up a new one from the empty utensils aisle. Would take 2 minutes.