Are you still avoiding supermarkets?

[FluffyKittensinabasket]

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 wouldn’t worry about what one anxious person said to you @FluffyKittensinabasket - yes of course people have been going to supermarkets and there’s no reason why you shouldn’t, especially for essential items as you describe (it would be crazy not to!) while doing your best to sanitise, socially distanced, and be understanding of other people’s health and anxieties.

I have been taking our 9 year old with me since his brother went back to school and dad back to work.

We've gone when we wanted to. DH likes to do most the shopping so I don't have many reasons to go. Probably nip in tomorrow for some frozen chips.

I limit them, purely because it is so much hassle. Previously I would pop to the supermarket on the way home from work, but now it would mean a separate journey. So online delivery, local shops for top ups and then a late evening supermarket shop as needed.

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/coronavirus/3869469-Are-the-clothing-sections-of-supermarkets-open This thread was peak Mumsnet for me!

How much has changed in three months! There are still social distancing rules. What’s really changed since April to make it okay to buy clothes now in a supermarket? Coronavirus hasn’t gone away as we keep being reminded on Mumsnet every day.

I go occasionally but not for a full shop. I have a chronic illness so queueing outside the shop and then pushing a heavy trolley around is really exhausting for me. So I'm not avoiding out of fear of the virus. I have a monthly tesco delivery and a box from the local butcher and greengrocer.

I quite often used to run into the supermarket for a few extra bits but that’s not possible now because of the extensive queues. I do one weekly shop, online if possible, if I can’t get a slot then I go to the little Tesco Metro late at night because there’s no queue there. I haven’t been to a big supermarket and don’t intend to. The queues are unacceptable.

Queueing in winter will be horrible.

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/coronavirus/3867807-Rules-on-shopping-frequency-there-are-none?pg=8

“ Would the untimely death of one of the key workers you live with change that? Or the person serving you every day in the shop?”

“Yeah, keep doing what you want to do. And when local people and people you know start to die just know this, it could be you and your selfish attitude that infected them.“

“ I'm wondering just how essential that bar of chocolate will seem when they're on a ventilator fighting for their lives?”

I’m genuinely curious where all the people posting about about the dangers of shopping have gone. Especially now clothes stores etc have opened. And pubs.

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/3872049-to-wonder-if-cucumbers-are-an-essential-purchase

I do click and collect from a large local supermarket once a week and visit our corner shop for anything we run out of occasionally, never more than once a week.

Yes, still avoiding. I'm doing collections instead.

No exactly avoiding but I go into supermarkets very rarely. I prefer to use click and collect and smaller local shops instead for the moment

I didn’t go pre C19 due to anxiety, I’ve been really lucky that there are still some delivery slots being released in my area once the priority slots are taken. Dreading going back to work due to some colleagues quite openly saying it’s all made up not social distancing and refusing to wear the correct PPE for their role.

I haven't been since mid-March, but always had deliveries before that anyway for the weekly shop, so any trips were always just for tiny top ups or just mooching around homewares/clothes, so I'm not missing that.

I've never had a supermarket delivery
I nip to the shop at least once a week
there are no queues if you time it right
its lovely and peaceful in there

I want some stuff from Ikea but CBA with the insane queue
all other stuff have just stopped buying

I never stopped or avoided going!

I have to eat! So does ds! And so did my parents who both having chemo relied on me and my sister to shop for them.

I remember the cucumbers thread, it was bonkers. I can't remember if that thread or another in which someone said food wasn't an essential.

It was also around that time I had to go to Tesco to buy eggs, it was DS's Birthday and I wanted to bake him a cake - it was shit enough having a lockdown Birthday there was no way he wasn't having a birthday cake! As I walked out I did wonder if anyone was judging me for only buying eggs (the eggs hadn't come in my delivery a couple of days earlier)

We were never completely avoiding them, but yes I would say avoiding less. At the start of lockdown we were having one online delivery a week then DH would go to our local supermarket to get anything we couldn't get in the online delivery once a week too. We wouldn't go more than that, whereas now we're back to going a few more times a week for one or two items that we've run out of/forgotten to get.

Go as needed. Have even managed to get a delivery for tomorrow!

At the beginning I was going to the Co-op and using lots of our stuff up from the freezer and pantry. I was soon getting online shopping after about a month. A large shop to last 10 days so we didn’t need to go out. I then found Lidl late evening shopping was best as it was quiet, so I shop there now on a Thursday evening.

Anyone who's feeling anxious about going food shopping, I recommend going late in the evening if it's feasible. I stopped going to the big Tesco for months because it was so stressful at the start of lockdown, but now I go after about 9pm (it closes at midnight) and there's usually only about three other people there - it's actually quite relaxing!

Not been to supermarket since start of lockdown. I managed to retain an Ocado slot although fortnightly at first so for that period just added into my Mums Tesco online slot that she got due to shielding and then collected it from her driveway. Then was offered a weekly slot at Ocado so no real need apart from a couple of quick M&S food visits for extras. It's not the fear that puts me off just the whole queueing thing our closest Tesco that I drive past nearly always has a queue outside.

I'm getting an online delivery once a week and then popping into the local shop midweek for milk and bread. I go to the chemist weekly as my meds are dispensed that way and since the baker shop next door has opened, I nip in there.

I'm going to keep shopping like this, my main shop is more expensive but I'm more organised and not doing loads of top-ups and spending a fortune on impulse buys.

We're getting click and collects or deliveries weekly - there's always a slot available, we book in advance. And milk and bread from Milk and More. I'm still wary of anywhere indoors with aircon, though I think supermarkets are less of a risk than smaller shops.