Supermarkets need to get real!

[Justa47]

When will supermarkets stop being a day out and only allow single parents in with kids and not families and couples?

Why doesn’t one parent wait in the car?

Round here they do. Usually with engine running and headlights on so everyone else can be dazzled and have their lungs fucked up by particulates. Selfish people tend to be selfish wherever they are.

Yep - loads of kids in trolleys...

I thought they did, Costa has a sign, not a supermarket though.

Problem is it’s the staff that end up getting the abuse when they ask people. Everyone has their reason why they “need” to shop in a group or whatever!

I'm a single parent, do my shopping when kids are at their dads it's easier, however I always go with my mum, I drive, she doesn't, and I'm heavily pregnant with spd, I struggle to shop alone so she comes with and helps.
Today, we were questioned at the door of the supermarket as to why we both needed to go in, we explained and they were fine with it. I think that's the way to do it really. This was Waitrose, they are only allowing 50 in now. I didn't see any families in there, one lady who was clearly helping another man, a couple of single adults with a child... didn't see any couples with kids though

@Sirzy

Problem is it’s the staff that end up getting the abuse when they ask people. Everyone has their reason why they “need” to shop in a group or whatever!

QFT

Surely this should have always been the way?

www.bbc.com/news/business-55618408

Hasn't this been discussed to death? There was another thread on this yesterday for those collectively outraged.

It's not the parent taking their child with them that's the problem. It's the perfectly capable adult couples that feel the need to shop in pairs. Young children can't be left at home. Your 50 year old wife/husband can.

The supermarket staff don't get paid enough to put up with being spat and coughed at or hit because they DARE to ask part of a couple or one adult in a family to wait outside with the children. The general public can be entitled fuckheads.

God help grown, able bodied adults who can't shop alone. Pathetic. How anyone can find that attractive I'll never know.

Ffs why do people not do an online shop if they have so many problems with shopping alone as an adult.

@UghNotThisAgain36 agree

This has been one of my bugbears since the pandemic started. Supermarket PR departments have been making the right noises about people shopping alone, but at store level there is not and never has been any attempt made to actually police or enforce this.

When parent on their own has no alternative but to shop with young children, it’s far from ideal, but needs must. The problem is the dozens of retired couples shuffling around M&S every time I visit and the boards of covidiots treating a trip to Sainsbury’s as a family day out.

@thetinselbadge

Hasn't this been discussed to death? There was another thread on this yesterday for those collectively outraged.

dunno, was working yesterday, so its being done again!

And they all have security guards too. How hard would it be for them to ask?
And people not wearing masks too!

They're also letting in couples. I see it all the time - I did myself until very recently I admit. I also think they shouldn't let you in without using hand sanitiser on entry, preferably every time you go down a new aisle. Often the hand sanitiser is buried around the side somewhere, doesn't have enough left, certainly isn't encouraged by anybody...

Completely agree with the OP. I’m far from one of the restriction-fanboys but I’ve no idea why people are taking their entire family to Tesco. It’s mind boggling.

Meh I don’t really care tbh - I just go to the shops at 9pm and they are always empty so I have the place to myself. Sometimes go with my husband - also heavily pregnant so I struggle on my own and we don’t have a car - we need both of us to go sometimes to carry 2 bags home each or we’d never get the stuff back / he’d have to the shops again in the week to carry everything we need which is worse surely

Our sainsburys was stopping people yesterday. I remarked that it seemed quiet in store & a member of staff told me.

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/coronavirus/4131570-Familys-shopping-together?pg=1

It's the shoppers that need to get real.

This is NOT down to the staff at shop level to police. They cannot refuse entry, they cannot restrain people from coming in. What do you expect them to do? Ask and then be told to fuck off, spat at, assaulted, worse?

This is down to the entitled fuckers that live in this country, plenty of them on here. Entitled and someone else's issue. This is not down to the minimum wage workers who legally, can do nothing and risk all sorts by speaking up to people.

Maybe if we actually had enough police, they could do their job. You know, law enforcement.

@UghNotThisAgain36

The supermarket staff don't get paid enough to put up with being spat and coughed at or hit because they DARE to ask part of a couple or one adult in a family to wait outside with the children. The general public can be entitled fuckheads.

God help grown, able bodied adults who can't shop alone. Pathetic. How anyone can find that attractive I'll never know.

I'm on just over £9 an hour. I'm already getting abuse from customers, some of them are utter arseholes. Asking me now to enforce the guidelines is wrong, that's not my job.

Who needs a police force when threads like this exist!

@SendHelp30

Ffs why do people not do an online shop if they have so many problems with shopping alone as an adult.

Can not often get a slot around here and when I have managed it there have been lots of things not available so have had to go to the shop anyway!

A friend of mine doesn't drive her husband does. She won't leave the child in car with husband as he has no patience when child messes about. (whole other story)
But won't wait in car whilst he shops as he's ' greedy and buys too much for himself'
So they HAVE to shop as a Family apparently!
They go most days as the child is bored indoors.