Finally supermarkets are being stricter!

[Nicknamegoeshere]

Re the Shop Alone rule.
It felt safer shopping in-store yesterday.
They should have toughened up earlier but st least they are now!

@OrangeBananaFish you can always put straight in trolley and pack in car? I have pretty much always done weekly shop for 4 of us on my own ? Also depends on area, where I live asda easy to get a click and collect so that is option, whilst waiting today I see couples coming out with one bag between them? And the shop was busy.

@Nicknamegoeshere

Re the Shop Alone rule. It felt safer shopping in-store yesterday. They should have toughened up earlier but st least they are now!

Safer? Safer from what? Do you feel this way during every respiratory virus session?

@donewithitalltodayandxmas Are the cashiers at the till OK with being told to stop scanning? I always feel a bit rude. Usually I'm still unpacking the trolley while the scanned pile gets bigger and bigger.

BTW I have been going 3 times a week during proper lockdowns. I can't do a full shop myself, but I hate going (DH is the shopper, but can't drive) so just working it out to go once a week alone.

@Nicknamegoeshere

Nope, I just happen to care about other people and recognise that reducing the spread of what can potentially be a deadly virus is more important that choosing the nicest grapes with the aid of my entire family.

Nothing in your op would suggest you 'care about people' it strongly indicates the exact opposite.

@OrangeBananaFish tbf in normal times they don't care ( unless lidl as they throw it at you , but your supposed to just put in trolley there)
My dh hates shopping and so do I really but most of the pandemic I have managed to get online del or mostly click and collect , so limited supermarket trips.
I think its just about being sensible , today couples walked out passed me with one bag , that doesn't seem necessary.
And also how busy shop is 2 people going in and only a few in shop better than 2 going in when shop is full.

@OrangeBananaFish I took my ds today to help as asda click and collect don't give bags just a trolley full of stuff, but ds stayed in car (17) and just helped me pack in bags at car and then take in house.
I also took him as he has not been out house since xmas and although only a trip in car , thought better than nothing .

In Tesco Express yesterday. Saw a middle aged woman, with presumably her daughters, one in her 20s , the other about 16. None of them wore a mask and were quite happy to wander around the store quite loudly, oblivious to everyone else shopping responsibly.
Despite the fact none of them wore face masks, I don’t know why all three of them had to enter the shop, two of them could have waited in the car...

@donewithitalltodayandxmas I forced my 15YO DS and 13YO DD1 to go to the postbox the other day as they had not been outside all year. Back in April/May they were outside often in the garden, but it wasn't snowy and rainy back then.

I'm never sure what I want (even though I have a list) until I get in the store so not sure I want to do click and collect, but will give just putting things in the trolley as per Lidl and Aldi (neither of which I like for a full shop, dont mind for a few bits) and see if that is better. Thank you

Belguim and Slovenia have higher deathsper capita than UK.

I shopped with my 2 ds's today, aged 8 and 4. As I was packing I heard the man behind me saying something about "putting you in an impossible situation and SELFISH" said looking right at me?! He was talking to the checkout operator. I didn't say anything but I think he meant because I had the kids with me. Like I'd take them with me for fun! Thank goodness I have a tesco slot for next week.

The people worried about needing help to unload and pack definitely get on board with the scan as you shop (if available at your supermarket of choice)
Just pack straight in to your bags and also means you don't have to get close to a checkout operator. Bonus is you can keep an eye on cost as you go round.

@Littlefluffyclouds13 What part would that be?

@Daisyhoney If I catch Covid and either/or become very unwell/potentially die or cause someone else to become very unwell/potentoally die because a couple or family just "fancy" shopping together then I do believe it's very much my business.

@Redbrickwall Which is likely to be most harmful? A common cold, influenza, or Covid?

[quote Nicknamegoeshere]@Littlefluffyclouds13 What part would that be?[/quote]
Because you view the world in a tedious/uncaring way.
Do you not see that there are a whole host of reasons that people might not live up to your 'standards' or 'rules'?

Your post would suggest, that you'd be the type of person I see, eye rolling and tutting when I'm at the supermarket with my dd.
Did you read my first response? We all live very different lives, be kinder op, you may like it.

@Littlefluffyclouds13 Hence the word UNLESS.

Nah, I’m with the OP.

I really don’t care what reasons people have to need to shop for food in groups or pairs.

It’s a pandemic - how many people died today? If your DH can’t buy the cheese you like because you’re not there - well tough shit.

Maybe, just maybe if we stop finding excuses to do the things we did pre Covid, we might just actually get to the point where we can send our kids to school instead of living in this fucking seemingly never ending nightmare.

Absolutely no shits were given in Morrison's today. No-one on the door checking numbers or masks and loads of families shopping together. At the tills I was within 2 metres of about 10 other people with no space to move into, it was completely rammed. It's been a long time since I was that close to a bunch of strangers.

@OrangeBananaFish you have to do what works for you and if you and dh goes once a week as opposed to you going several times hard to work out which is technically safer. I use click and collect as supermarkets near me are just so busy and I am same with lidl and aldi , don't seem to be able to get a full shop.
2 going in and whizzing round a shop especially of pick a quieter tile I don't see an issue or whilst doing whole food shop as you could do quicker.
It was more the couples that had one bag I found needless today as the shop was busy.

@Nicknamegoeshere you're making absolutely no sense? You stated it wasn't acceptable 'unless someone is a carer or with a child'
My dd (and many others) are neither and unfortunately have to deal with the likes of you tutting and eye rolling.
Do you get it yet?

It was busy at the beach
Busy at Tesco
Busy at aldi
Busy on the roads
Nothing like the first lockdown
Some people might have a problem with that
I don’t.
We are still restricted

I just think people have lick down fatigue now

There were half a dozen people at the door of my local Tesco last Sunday, asking people to shop alone. No yelling, just very polite exchanges, the people I saw getting asked seemed happy to comply. Shop was very quiet, specially for a Sunday.

@nettytree

As a cashier my heart sinks when a single person comes to my till with an overflowing trolley. It takes ages for them to unload it and then repack it the other end. It is so much quicker if there was 2 people. One at each end.

What difference does it make to you how much time each customer takes?

@victoriaspongecake

Here’s the thing op. YOU don’t know why people need to shop in couples. Unless of course you are psychic. I shop alone as I can. Not everyone can. So keep your beak out and stop being so judgemental over things you know absolutely nothing about.

this , its getting to be so bloody pathetic that people are that paranoid they are freaking out over a couple shopping together in the supermarket ,