Familys shopping together

[Amira19]

Went to my local Morrisons yesterday and it was crazy, family's of 5 plus shopping together despite the schools closing to prevent spread , groups of people blocking aisles gossiping to each other trying to get past whilst keeping distance. I thought the whole point was to reduce the number of people going into the shops. I heard the staff getting frustrated with the situation. ( single parents of course should shop with dc but this was groups of families, seems like its going to be never ending)

Let's not forget how many families are breaking the rules and meeting up with one another then going shopping. Ds's friend called for him to go out and I said he couldn't yet people have seen groups of teenagers out together

Families are completely taking the piss. No regard for key workers who may have underlying conditions. I believe it is political and Boris needs to go back to the two meter rule, regardless of masks, as this new varient is out of control. There is much willfull negligence going on, aka thick, selfish, shoppers.

Hmm couples can do just as much mooching about in their little bubble as I have witnessed today infact. It is everyone.

Oh and touching as well particularly a man that seemed intent in touching every bag of potatoes as he rifled through them all my toddler didn't touch anything from the confines of the trolley.

People should care about both but schools have a higher rate of spreading supposedly as people don't spend 6 hours in a supermarket in a small room right next to others.

I agree they should. But IMO education is important and as I've stated (many many many times!) on here, my DD's school were very strict about the rules and cases were very low so on balance going into school was worth the risk.

Having more than one adult doing the shopping (with the usual exceptions etc etc) increases the risk for what benefit? The kids getting a day out? Really?

One adult to shop alone or with children if no childcare should be the rule.

Waspnest nobody is saying more than one adult should do the shop at least I'm not. I haven't read the full thread though as dont have the time.

Couples are equally bad for this i agree. I seen older couples out together however as I have aging parents they went shopping together before lockdown and share the workload packing and carrying the bags and collect prescriptions at the same time.

I work in a supermarket, people often treat it as a day out,wandering round together.

@Strawberrypancakes

What’s the actual rules on this though? A friend of mine doesn’t drive but hadn’t left the house for days so went with her DH and had to take the kids. That seems fine to me.

Her DH should have waited in the car with the dc. Does anyone remember the infographic? Showing how each reduction in contact leads to learning of transmission?

@StickTheKettleOnAlice

One adult to shop alone or with children if no childcare should be the rule.

Totally agree

I always see couples shopping which is slightly annoying as there’s no need. There’s signs up at M&S and Sainsbury’s asking only 1 person per household to shop, but many do ignore it.

If you don’t have a car and need 2 people to carry the groceries home, why do both of you need to enter the store? Surely one could wait outside to lessen the amount of people inside and potentially mixing

Obviously it’s nice to get out of the house and have a chat etc but a supermarket in lockdown isn’t the time or place. It’s selfish

I was in the supermarket a couple of weeks ago and there was what I assume to be a son helping his very elderly mother with the shopping and some man in there with his family shouted out ‘I thought the elderly were meant to stay at HOME’ 😂

Fairly sure it's a day out for some families tbh, why can't one parent stay home whist the other shops? Beyond me

muddledmidget

I was in home bargains yesterday and the young guy at the till told this middle aged guy to move away from the black cross, he said it politely. Next min he was swearing, shouting. The poor guy at the till was only doing his job. So he snd his wife snd 3 kids were escorted out. Bloody idiot of a man

One adult to shop alone or with children if no childcare should be the rule.

Yes I agree, but a few people on the thread have tried to justify not going alone.

This is exactly what I experienced yesterday, I went in very quickly because I couldn't get an online slot, to pick up some basics, fruit, veg, milk etc and was shocked at the amount of families (two adults present), couples, people catching up with friends they had bumped into.
I was only in there for about 10 minutes, I'd be very annoyed if I had to do an 8 hour shift.
Sign at the entrance clearly stated shop alone if possible. I really don't believe all those people needed to be in groups. I can't see how we will get things under control when this seems to be what people find reasonable.

I find it quite sad that people justify family shopping trips because they have an inept man child of a husband and/or don't drive themselves.

Also find it sad that a supermarket trip might be the best activity they could think of to do as a family.

It doesn't say an awful lot for people's capabilities both in a practical sense and a cognitive sense.

@hobbyiscodefordogging

I find it quite sad that people justify family shopping trips because they have an inept man child of a husband and/or don't drive themselves.

Also find it sad that a supermarket trip might be the best activity they could think of to do as a family.

It doesn't say an awful lot for people's capabilities both in a practical sense and a cognitive sense.

Agree with the husband stuff but the rest is unpleasant.

I went to our local shop the other day and there was a woman outside with a scooter and inside there was another woman with a child of about 10 who was not wearing a mask. After a while the woman asked the child if he wouldn't rather wait outside with his mum but he refused. Why the hell did she bring him in? The shop is tiny and I feel sorry for the shopkeeper who must face this all the time.

I dont understand why people shop as a family outside of a pandemic never mind whilst in one

@IceDiscoSkater tbh not sure why I replied in the first instance but hey ho. Why should my toddler wait in the car? My toddler spends days indoors with this shitty weather right now and nothing available for him to interact with as everything is closed it's either indoors or the park where he can't interact with other kids anyway and weather has been absolute Baltic. My toddler gets happy seeing a few faces and it's important for his development. He points at dog food saying woof woof and points at other things holding his hair when he sees shampoo. Have we committed a crime here? Well no. I don't drive so I have to go with DH and I really don't care what people think because at the moment this works for us every 2 weeks. I think people should target the parasites that hang out in the range as a family buying photo frames and sofa cushions rather than me just doing my essential shopping with my toddler and husband buying food and nappies. I know some of you would come back and say "well your husband can wait in the car then" well do you know what, how about you mind your own businesses and get a life and take precautions. Wear a double mask, anti bac your hands every time you touch something and keep your distance because that's what I do.

@Funkypolar

Why not get the army to shoot anybody not shopping alone?

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I think that is about the best response to this sort of post.

I honestly don't notice at all who is shopping with whom and what sort of group they are in when I go to the supermarket. Nor could I give a shit about it.

I do shop alone, but that isn't down to anything about Covid. It's because I am an antisocial old fart who doesn't like having anyone with me when I shop.

As for the outdoor queuing systems, our local Tesco has theirs set up again for when it is busy, and now has traffic lights on the door too ifwhen you get to it. Apart from Christmas and New Year week though when it got a bit crazy, there is now usually nobody in the queue and you can walk straight in. Thankfully, as it has been far too cold to be standing outside for long.

They haven't reinstated the ridiculous one way system in the store. It didn't work anyway and caused more issues than it solved.

I don't drive. When DC were too small to be left DH drove us all to the supermarket, gave me the keys and took DC off to play in the park. I'd do the shopping, dump in the car and then go to find them/sit in Costa for a blessed 10 minutes of peace. I appreciate you can't do the latter now but it was far better for my headspace and the DCs exercise levels to split up then all go round the supermarket.

UpMySt you have very little regard for the employees who risk getting a virus which cause them harm because you don't want to be on you're own with a toddler.