Are you still avoiding supermarkets?

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Not so long ago, anybody admitting going to a supermarket was screeched at for being a murderer. Is this still the case?

I remember being told I wasn’t allowed to go to the shop to buy pads, tampons and ibuprofen as I was murdering old ladies. Of course I still went and probably go to the supermarket twice a week.

I avoid them at all costs, pandemic or no pandemic.

I've never avoided them.

We haven’t gone since March and don’t have any reason to. I don’t think there was ever a large number people who begrudged anyone shopping for essentials. So that seems like an unnecessary attempt to conflate two different groups of people.

There were a lot of hysterical posters at the beginning though, both for people popping to the shops and for those using online deliveries.

I was laid into for using click and collect slots, even though I pointed out that there wasn’t a shortage in my area.

One poster told be that the people who needed them probably didn’t know how to use online shopping that’s why there were free slots, and that I should knock on doors to find out who needed the help so they could take those slots - he/she was in quite the rage with me over it.

Were you? Were you really? Actually accused of murdering old ladies? Right-oh.
Were you on mn at all during the last 6 months? The hysterical and frankly bullying nature of many posts were saying just that. Anyone who didnt stay at home 24/7 apart from standing at thier front door once a week clapping like a maniac was called a murderer and worse. Hundreds of threads telling other people to "Stay the fuck at home or forfeit your icu bed" "hope you feel good when your granny dies" shit went on for months. Funnily enough these same people were quite happy for supernarket staff to continue to work so they could get thier home deliveries to save them the trouble of going into a cesspit of germs.🤔 And no I don't mean shielding or vulberable, these were your average posters who freely admitted that it was ok for someone else to risk the virus to do thier shopping for them.

The behaviour of so called civilised adults was truly eye opening. We live in a world of fascists in uk apparently.

I don't go more often than needed as I really can't be arsed queueing or dealing with people moaning if you dare to walk the wrong way down an empty aisle.

Yes I was. And there have been far more posts about people apparently accusing others of murder than there ever were posts actually saying that. Your post is a prime example of hysteria from the other side. The worst of the 'anti dementors' are every bit as tedious as the worst of the dementors. Both extremes need to chill the fuck out.

I've never avoided supermarkets. I have a family to feed.

I never used to go to supermarkets but I couldn't get delivery slots or click and collect so I had to start. First thing in the morning there is rarely a queue and if there is it's only a couple of minutes wait.

I've been four times a week all through lockdown, but I do work there. In our store approximately 20%-25% of sales are online and the rest are made by people coming in person so most people are still shopping that way.

I’m technically shielding but no I’ve just got back from grocery shopping

Ok you must have missed all the really nasty ones then lucky you.

The fact remains that there were loads on every thread even vaguely connected to CV and some that had nothing to do with it. I saw a poster who had long standing mh problems and was suicidal being told to get over themselves as they didn't have CV and needed hospitalization and their problems were not important. People being told that it didn't matter if they couldn't pay thier mortgage or feed thier kids on no pay as they had been made redundant. That they should suck up the fact they could be homeless because they didn't have CV so it was a blessing.

And now with the whole masks and reduction of sd rules stuff they are crawling back out the woodwork again. Thankfully people are not accepting this level of bullying now and are using actual facts and figures and common sense to shut them up.

Pointing our that these posts happened isn't hysteria nor is using actual real statistics not the jumbled mess the gov trots out thanks to a useless model. Questioning the hysteria which has been proved wrong time and time again isn't hysterical either it's called critical thinking. Sadly lacking in all the scaremongering in the media and on here.

Yes because I have small children with me all the time and people go nuts about them being in public spaces

I've been going 3-4 times a week every week, I do shopping for other people and our local Food Bank. I am personally not at all worried (I work in retail - not food) and just get on with my life and leave the online slots for the vulnerable and anxious - not that I've ever done an online food shop in my life ].

Shielding so yes, avoiding. Last went in the second week of March and not planning on going for a while yet

The only 'bullying' or eyebrow raising I have seen is here on Mumsnet which seems like a different universe to the one I live in.

Were you? Were you really? Actually accused of murdering old ladies? Right-oh

I'm not sure anyone mentioned murdering old ladies but there were plenty of people on here saying that you shouldn't go food shopping more than once a week at most, and only for "essential" items (Easter Eggs were an OUTRAGEOUS thing to buy), definitely no daily newspapers, especially if you were over 70, and cheese was an acceptable alternative to milk.

I've been going twice a week the whole time. Sometimes even for non essentials Me too. Sometimes 3 times. I walked into town and if there was no queue I'd go in, and if there was I walked home again.

One of the best was were someone was berated for buying cucumbers.

I have been going weekly throughout.

There was one where someone wanted to buy socks or something for her child who had outgrown clothing, so she asked on here whether the larger supermarkets’ clothing sections were open, as she could travel to one and do her food shop there and pick up clothes at the same time. If they didn’t have open clothing sections, she would do her food shop in the small supermarket closer to home which didn’t sell clothes as there was no point her going further. OMG the OUTRAGE at her even considering making a longer journey for any reason. As though she was completely immoral for even thinking of it. It was ridiculous.

I'm not sure anyone mentioned murdering old ladies
Murdering you granny, your neighbours granny or your child's best friends mum or granny was trotted out on a regular basis for a long time on here.

I remember the socks outrage. Shopping for socks could deprive a key worker of the chance to shop for food. And it's warm so children don't need socks (it was fucking April, so ice and snow still quite possible, ffs)

Oh, and babies didn't need baby clothes, just wrap them in a blanket

I've never avoided going to the supermarket- we have to eat after all!

I have been going once a week as normal, combined with a trip to my butcher.

I haven't really been to big supermarkets like Asda purely because of the queues. I have been using aldi and lidl which don't seem to queue as much.

I had to hide the Coronavirus topic for a while as the levels of outrage had got so ridiculous. It is all much calmer now.

I'm shielding but I don't think I'll ever go back to traipsing around the shop for food now, it just seems like such an unnecessary waste of energy that's better spent elsewhere