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Original poster

Finally supermarkets are being stricter!

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Nicknamegoeshere · 22/01/2021 15:01

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

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WalrusWife · 23/01/2021 12:10

They’ll be a lot of namechanging just like after the posts in March / April. Nobody has been sobbing and shaking for a while or accusing others of granny murdering.

TroosAndShoes · 23/01/2021 12:12

@WalrusWife

What happens to people like OP when Covid is over? What is there to judge then?
Even in pre-Covid conditions it's apparently "ridiculous" for:
  • children to go shopping
  • the elderly to go shopping at weekends
  • couples to go shopping at any time

And then of course there's the:

  • "It was 10 items or fewer - and a woman had ELEVEN!"
  • People take too long to pay
  • People take long to pack
  • Someone helped me to pack when I didn't ask them to.

The reasons may change but the judginess and cries of "It's ridiculous!" go on.

WalrusWife · 23/01/2021 12:13

Does anybody remember the glorious thread where someone went to the supermarket to only buy Easter eggs and somebody else said they were murdering retail workers? Then they started to literally “sob and shake” and so did the other poster until there were both sobbing and shaking and accusing each other of murder. Then the thread got deleted. I wonder where those posters are now?

TroosAndShoes · 23/01/2021 12:15

The Easter egg threads were pure gold.

I wonder if scientists have gotten around to researching the effects of "sobbing and shaking" on virus transmission. :o

LolaSmiles · 23/01/2021 12:17

WalrusWife
Those posts were a good laugh to read.

I do think had the government got proper strategy and people followed the first lockdown better then we wouldn't still be in this situation. I struggle to sympathise with people moaning that they have to ignore all the rules because they're fed up of the lockdown, whilst their actions are contributing to us still being in lockdown.

WalrusWife · 23/01/2021 12:18

What happened to all the people sobbing and shaking over people getting non-essential items delivered to their homes? There was one post I remember where the OP was begging people to not order anything online as millions of people who worked in warehouses and driving jobs were dying.

TroosAndShoes · 23/01/2021 12:25

@WalrusWife

What happened to all the people sobbing and shaking over people getting non-essential items delivered to their homes? There was one post I remember where the OP was begging people to not order anything online as millions of people who worked in warehouses and driving jobs were dying.
Twitching curtains everywhere were getting ruined after absorbing all those tears.

Then the shaking started up again as they tried to weigh up whether purchases of new curtains would be considered non-essential.

Frouby · 23/01/2021 12:27

Meh, of all the covid rules shopping in pairs/groups in the most ridiculous. It doesn't protect anyone, it just means the supermarkets can fit more trolleys in so take more money in a shorter space of time. The only thing it impacts to customers is if it is busy, you might have to queue outside.

If the store can fit 75 people and there are 20 couples in that 75, that's actual trolleys reduced by 20. That's why supermarkets want you to shop alone.

If the store can fit 75 people safely, and there are 60 people in and 20 of them are in couples the store is still secure.

If I go with dh I am in and out quicker than if I go alone. Plus it makes life easier as we both cook so not relying on the other to get what we want. Dh pushes the trolley and gets the heavy stuff. I get to go up and down aisles and nip back for forgotten things without dragging the trolley around. Plus tbh, I spend all week with just the kids for company, I like shopping on a Saturday morning for naice bits for the weekend with DH. The kids stay home as they hate shopping.

Honestly, life is shit and dark and depressing enough as it is. If you worry about safety click and collect, shop when it's quiet, get a delivery. I follow all the actu laws and most of the guidance. I wear a mask, maintain 2m, wash my hands. But unless there are massive queues it makes no difference if its 1 per trolley or more.

Sparklingbrook · 23/01/2021 12:32

I think all the crying and shaking and possibly a bit of frothing on MN has contributed to transmission of this virus definitely. Grin

Whatever9999 · 23/01/2021 12:36

Who the hell would want to make a trip to the supermarket family day out. Maybe its just because of my autism, but no way would I want to be in a supermarket a second more than necessary. In fact I don't even want to be in there that long. If I had to shop in a supermarket I would need someone with me, but you wouldn't know that just by looking (unless you actually understood what stimming can look like). They're too big, there's too many people, too many products, keep changing which aisles things are in. I always forget what I actually went in for, or end up trying to escape.

Not that we have a big supermarket here, but if we did if I didn't have someone with me I'd end up having to go in 3 or 4 times, one after another as I become overwhelmed.

Again I look perfectly "normal", but I was wearing a lanyard in these situations well before mask exemption became a thing. How would you be able to tell just by looking at me that I need a carer?

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Nicknamegoeshere · 23/01/2021 12:47

My OH has just spent half an hour queueing at Tesco. The good news is they were saying no to couples and families and tbf those being sent away weren't questioning it.

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Original poster
Nicknamegoeshere · 23/01/2021 12:47

outside I mean.

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Sparklingbrook · 23/01/2021 12:57

@Nicknamegoeshere

My OH has just spent half an hour queueing at Tesco. The good news is they were saying no to couples and families and tbf those being sent away weren't questioning it.
Brave to go out to a supermarket on a Saturday morning. It's -1 here so half an hour of queuing would be really unpleasant. Sounds like your OH got a good view of all the marshalling action though.
TroosAndShoes · 23/01/2021 12:59

@Nicknamegoeshere

My OH has just spent half an hour queueing at Tesco. The good news is they were saying no to couples and families and tbf those being sent away weren't questioning it.
Hang on.

So you went shopping on Thursday (according to your OP) and now your OH has gone again today.

How is that really any different (in terms of risk) to a couple going shopping together? Confused

Original poster
Nicknamegoeshere · 23/01/2021 13:07

@TroosAndShoes I had to collect a prescription. It couldn't wait.

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islockdownoveryet · 23/01/2021 13:07

I do kind of agree , I mean some people need to go shopping with someone but not everyone does . I saw a family today in Asda they were walking in the same time as me and the woman walked in with one child and the dad hung back to get a trolley with the other child , then they met up inside . Obviously kids don’t wear masks either . coincidence or possibly just so that they wouldn’t be questioned when they went in together.
It’s no skin off my nose and I’m not particularly bothered and I get the kids are bored etc but when you think many aren’t shopping without family and well why can’t they wait in the car ?. A mutual friend posted on social media this week that she was refused entry with her dc . You could say that’s too much but she didn’t have to bring her but you wouldn’t be too happy that you went shopping to be told no then have to take child back and go another day when her husband was home . People should try and use common sense to not bring the whole family to the shops but obviously there are times you need to bring your dc and people need someone with them .

WalrusWife · 23/01/2021 13:08

Nicknamegoeshere - your prescription can wait surely? Don’t you know there’s a global pandemic? Wink

Original poster
Nicknamegoeshere · 23/01/2021 13:09

@WalrusWife No it couldn't actually. For my baby.

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Northernsoulgirl45 · 23/01/2021 13:11

Not in my local LIDL. In one short visit I saw two couples and one mum dad and kid walking in side by side.

WalrusWife · 23/01/2021 13:12

Nicknamegoeshere - babies can wait! Only Covid matters!

Does anybody remember the post where the OP needed baby formula and she was told it wasn’t essential and to stay home because there was a global pandemic?

Peak Mumsnet.

Sparklingbrook · 23/01/2021 13:15

It felt safer shopping in-store yesterday.

TBF that did sound like you were shopping not just picking up a prescription @Nicknamegoeshere.

Sparklingbrook · 23/01/2021 13:16

@WalrusWife

Nicknamegoeshere - babies can wait! Only Covid matters!

Does anybody remember the post where the OP needed baby formula and she was told it wasn’t essential and to stay home because there was a global pandemic?

Peak Mumsnet.

I am really hoping we are going to be over the Covid thread peak on MN soon. Surely this level cannot be maintained indefinitely?
TroosAndShoes · 23/01/2021 13:21

@Sparklingbrook

It felt safer shopping in-store yesterday.

TBF that did sound like you were shopping not just picking up a prescription @Nicknamegoeshere.

That's how I read it too.

Personally it wouldn't bother me if you'd bought half of Tesco but it seemed odd to be complaining about couples shopping and then say that you and your OH had both gone.

4Mongrels · 23/01/2021 13:22

Loads of couples in our local supermarket. The virus is spread via droplets. The more conversing that goes in the higher the risk for everyone, shop workers included who don’t have the choice not to be there.

Some people can’t shop alone, but many people choose not to.

Sparklingbrook · 23/01/2021 13:24

@TroosAndShoes I wouldn't go to a supermarket to collect a prescription unless I had shopping to do either. I'd use the local pharmacy to avoid it.

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