Can I go into tier 3 to supermarket?

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I live in a tier 2 county, but only about a mile and a half from the border with a tier 3 county. I go into the tier 3 county once a week anyway for work.

According to the government tier guidelines, you may go into a tier 3 area 'when necessary, such as for work or education'.

The branch of Aldi I go to weekly (and went to throughout the first lockdown) is just into the tier 3 area. Would I definitely be breaking the rules by continuing to shop there? Food shopping is, after all, necessary. But I could go to a further away supermarket in the other direction if I had to.

It's fine.

Its not like you're just going for a wander, you are doing your usual shopping.

Good, thank you! I'm not generally one to fret, nitpick or question the details of the rules or try and find loopholes etc. I just genuinely couldn't decide if I was being unreasonable on this one!

IF it’s frowned upon, couldn’t you go after work?

Yes. I live on the border between tier 2 and 3 (on the 3 side, even though my local area has lower cases than the 2 side and we use the same hospital). I will be crossing for essential reasons (work, school, food shopping, the doctors) and non-essential (the gym, other shopping, going for a walk in the fresh air).

That would be a bit tricky actually, Bubblemonkey, as work time plus full week's supermarket shop and journey time would be too long to leave ddog. I'm part time and only work for a couple of hours that day.

It seem people think it's reasonable though. Chances of me being stopped or questioned about it are vanishingly small anyway, but I don't like breaking the rules, so I'm glad I'm probably not really!

As long as I can go to a restaurant in your tier 2 😂just kidding tho I’d love to

I fear that definitely wouldn't qualify as 'if necessary'!