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!

OK. Let's all do what we like

@Littlefluffyclouds13 TESCO stared that. I am not Tesco.

*stated

M&S certainly aren’t. My local food hall was full of retired couples shopping together this afternoon, as always, same as every other weekday. Everyone was wearing masks but the staff were making no attempt whatsoever to persuade/ enforce ‘shop alone’.

M&S just don’t give a fuck.

@WTAFIhavelosttheferret

You are in the wrong place

I believe that you can apply for a job via Guardian Jobs for either

1. The Covid Police
2. Trainee Divine Being Status. This is an apprenticeship that recognises your total superiority to all other humans. You get to be a deity of your choosing on graduation.

Best post I've seen on Mumsnet for ages

OK. I was wrong. You lot all carry on doing what you like. I shall mind my own and not worry about other people.

I keep away from supermarkets now because, with my family’s vulnerabilities in mind, it doesn’t feel safe to me.
Deliveries and click and collect shops are far more accessible than they were during the first lockdown (though I appreciate that not everyone can afford a delivery fee on too).
I never had an issue with one person taking their children in or elderly couples or people needing a carer shopping together.

Went to my local Tesco Extra earlier. Security were on the door but I saw a few couples inside doing their shopping together. I just assume there was a reason for there being two of them. Got on with my own shopping and didn't stress about it.

@Estreladebelem

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.

Good.

It sounds like at least one retailer in this country is actually taking the pandemic seriously. It’s infuriating that so many of their customers are so stupid, so selfish and so entitled that they refuse to accept that grocery shopping in the current situation shouldn’t be a family fucking day out.

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
My thoughts entirely.
The dozens of threads on here where some men are apparently incapable of doing the shopping is frankly ridiculous. It's not a difficult task. Then there was the thread where posters were falling over themselves to argue that people wandering around the shops several times a week in search of the right type of gingerbread might be essential because Christmas is the only good thing and not having the gingerbread might be damaging to their mental health.

I'm all for exemptions for those who need it and agree you can't judge a stranger from a distance, but reading mumsnet only highlights how quick some people are to find any excuse why they don't have to apply a spot of common sense or want to engage in mental gymnastics to argue they are exempt from the rules/guidance (depending on context).

@Nicknamegoeshere

OK. I was wrong. You lot all carry on doing what you like. I shall mind my own and not worry about other people.

Good.

@PoppiesinOctober Hopefully nobody you love gets ill though.

[quote Nicknamegoeshere]@PoppiesinOctober Hopefully nobody you love gets ill though.[/quote]
Don't try and emotionally manipulate me, lol. Won't work.

I agree that people should follow the rules in supermarkets. But these people rolling their eyes at tutting at others is ridiculous! Who do they think they are? The supermarket police?!
Plus, as I’ve always said, if people are that worried about catching covid in supermarkets and shops, why do they put themselves a thing risk and go in there in the first place? If they were that bothered, surely they wouldn’t.

I've never understood couples shopping together unless there were additional needs involved. Such a waste of time. We meal plan at home and then one of us will shop. We change who it is. I think we've shopped together twice in the last 10 years or so. At the moment it's fucking ridiculous if it's not essential. They've stepped it up in our local supermarket as sadly staff have now died of covid.

Obviously a mother or parent taking young children into a supermarket is completely understandable. What are they supposed to do, leave them unsupervised ? Schools are closed and we can’t mix households unless there’s a good reason. If DP is at work, I’ll take my kids with me to Tesco.Everyone’s circumstances are different.
There seems to be lots of fuckwits in supermarkets at the moment, sticking their noses in!

My husband took our 11yo ds yesterday while
I was at work and ds was made to stand outside in the rain as he wasn’t allowed in, but when dh came out lots of couples and parents with teens allowed in.

@FuckOffBorisYouTwat

I've never understood couples shopping together unless there were additional needs involved. Such a waste of time. We meal plan at home and then one of us will shop. We change who it is. I think we've shopped together twice in the last 10 years or so. At the moment it's fucking ridiculous if it's not essential. They've stepped it up in our local supermarket as sadly staff have now died of covid.

That's your circumstances though. Mum and Dad have shopped together for years (main shop at least) Why? They don't drive (never have done) and two can carry more than one.

In some /many circumstances it probably isn't necessary for more than one to shop, but on the whole it is better to give people the benefit of doubt.

It is people not thinking that has led to my Mum now being really anxious about going shopping.

@Thedarksideofthemoon30

My husband took our 11yo ds yesterday while I was at work and ds was made to stand outside in the rain as he wasn’t allowed in, but when dh came out lots of couples and parents with teens allowed in.

That is absolutely dreadful. That store should be ashamed.

Oooh goody. Another judgemental thread where posters can pile on with how much better a person they are than everyone else

What happens to people like OP when Covid is over? What is there to judge then?

@WalrusWife I've changed my stance. Do what you like. Even it affects me or my family I'll just mind my own.

@WalrusWife

What happens to people like OP when Covid is over? What is there to judge then?

Are you new to MN? Pre-Covid we had normal type judging.

What happens to people like OP when Covid is over? What is there to judge then?

No idea, but it seems on here that wanting people to apply common sense is enough to be called judgey.

Common sense says that if you need to shop with others then do, but if you don't need to then don't have a family outing or day date to the supermarket because your husband apparently is incapable of selecting the right brand of beans and you fancy the company.

The government have handled this whole pandemic awfully, but it's also highlighted what we probably already knew: there's a sub group of people who think that rules and guidelines and laws apply to everyone else other than them. When the majority of people are behaving reasonably and want life back to normal, it's irritating knowing there's other's doing what they like and prolonging the situation for everyone else.

Supermarket judging suggestions post covid-

Contents of someone's trolley.
Behaviour at the checkout (faffing about)
Budget supermarkets and packing arrangements
Eating food before paying for it
Taking offence to something the cashier said