Tesco told by the Welsh government they can't sell sanitary pads?!

[MummBraTheEverLeaking]

I have no words, what in the actual hell? Booze yes, sanitary pads no? 🤦‍♀️

What about the "people who bleed" products too?!

Well when you make woman such a dirty word no wonder mysoginists and their handmaiden will take full advantage of the contempt

Where incontinence products deemed non-essential too? They are normally next to sanitary products.

Surely - with the number of IT experts sitting on their arses at home - an outfit the size of Tescos could have conducted an operation to simply ensure non-approved items can't be scanned into a basket ? Rather than this rather Keystone Cops approach which makes it look like they are run by a bunch of people that are still mystified by velcro ?

The deepest lesson from Covid appears to be how staggeringly incompetent the people we've been told for years are "worth every penny" of their telephone number salaries. But only if you're dialling the speaking clock, it seems.

I'm beginning to wonder if it is either a misogynistic shop manager (never been to a Tesco managed by a woman myself), or someone having a go at the Welsh government. I am not sure which is worse- even though the Tories are nasty enough to be happy to see children go hungry, I cannot see them spreading a false story for this.

If I needed something that was an essential purchase and the aisle has a barrier, then I'd shove the bloody barrier out of the way.

Clearly a ban on stationery is utterly ludicrous, too. Not just for home workers but for all those home schooling next week!

Mark Drakeford has also said that books are not essential products. Apparently the idea behind all this nonsense is that smaller independent stores that are still open will get the business. The reasoning is that if non essential products are banned in supermarkets, the shopper will then visit an independent store to buy the goods.
Those complete idiots in the Welsh Government are a bunch of incompetent fools.
This will lead to a rise in online sales. Mark Dickford is less than useless and as a pp said, I hope all this is remembered when the Welsh election takes place next year. Knowing Dickford, he'll postpone the election, because Covid.

@Whatwouldscullydo - You have never had to deal with the WAG, confusion at every turn!

They truly are a mess, just look at the state of the NHS in Wales since deveolution. Not wanting to derail the OP point.

The WAG sent a list of items that THEY deemed to be non essential to the super markets, the super markets then proceeded to block off access to these items, through fear of significant fines.

Of these non essential items, many people would class them as essential (baby clothes, duvets, baby bottle sterlising machines, cards, books etc

When a government, can dictate what people can and cannot buy, I think it should be challenged at the highest level. Sadly, Borris sat back and watched it unfold, smugly smiling.

Is it bc they're taxed as a luxury? So maybe they gov has said all 'luxury tax items' should be unsaleable? The fact they are luxury taxed is another matter

If I needed something that was an essential purchase and the aisle has a barrier, then I'd shove the bloody barrier out of the way

If you were a 12 Yr old girl though who went to go grab some while her mum looked after a toddler outside or was in a different aisle they may not have had the confidence to do that.

@OrtamLeevz

If I needed something that was an essential purchase and the aisle has a barrier, then I'd shove the bloody barrier out of the way.

So would I.

Which is why preventing things being scanned seems a safer measure. Especially if Tesco were caught selling an "unapproved" item could lead to a big fine.

Raza-you’re fired.

I’d have loved to have been a fly on the wall in that conversation between Raza and Gary.

Welsh government and/or Tesco need to have a word with themselves. Blocking off aisles just herds more people together in the other aisles, quite apart from anything else. Stupid.

makes it look like they are run by a bunch of people that are still mystified by velcro

There are a lot of very stupid people employed in Tesco - especially in all levels of management.

Also is Jeff Bezos advising the Welsh government by any chance? If you can't get certain items in shops then more profits for Amazon, unless they are banning deliveries as well.

This story is bullshit. One person clearly got confused in a local Tesco branch. Both Tesco and the Welsh gvmt have said they got it wrong. I don't know why people keep reacting as if misinformation were true.

does anybody remember that link about controlling periods (mentioned by pp?) perhaps this idiot (manager) thinks the same way
Point to Welsh Government - NOT EVERYBODY HAS ACCESS TO INTERNET OR BANK CARDS THEY CAN SAFELY USE
apologies about capitals but emphasis in this situation are needed

I think this was a very misguided idea from the Welsh Government.

The restrictions are ridiculous we don't have any real independent shops around here the supermarkets priced them out years ago they fucking closed

you can see why it’s not the Welsh constantly bellowing for independence; it doesn’t sound like they could organise a proverbial piss up in a brewery

The simpler thing all along would to have had small shops only being open, given that all the large retailers have small shops. No trips to retail parks, so more local journeys and you come into contact with fewer people.

The pre 1993 shop Sunday laws were about what you could sell not who could sell, and had the illogical thing that you could buy Playboy but not the Bible or the Koran.

It reminds me of the start of lockdown in the UK when shops that were allowed to open were getting confused about what they could and couldn't sell.

Ridiculous shutting shops and closing aisles off now when businesses have spent thousands on Covid measures to get customers back in. Really bad policy.

Oh do fuck off...welcome to a dimwit at a local Tesco who's misinterpreted the rules more like. The WG have said that non essential goods cannot be sold...it would be clear to anyone without an agenda that sanitary products, toiletries etc would come under the essential list...but if you wanted to cause trouble you could just wilfully misinterpret things and then blame WG.

@shieldedsally

This story is bullshit. One person clearly got confused in a local Tesco branch. Both Tesco and the Welsh gvmt have said they got it wrong. I don't know why people keep reacting as if misinformation were true.

This particular story may not be true, however there is an arbitrary list of items banned by the Welsh Government. That is what's ridiculous and bullshit. See my post about books being considered non essential