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? 🤦‍♀️

It was one store with one incompetent manager

So was that manager also their Twitter reply person? Strange combination of roles.

It was one store with one incompetent manager

Its one incompetent manager too many.

Seemingly backed up by incompetent social media moderating staff.

There are clearly these kinds of people about.

How many women and young girls would have been left humiliated and supply free because someone cant be bothered to read.

I mean the twitter person had like one job. Probably able to do it from home sat in jammies with all the coffee they can drink..is it too much to expect them to I dunno, read..

@testing987654321

It was one store with one incompetent manager

So was that manager also their Twitter reply person? Strange combination of roles.

Oops, missed the (now deleted) Twitter reply. Ok, two incompetent Tesco employees.

It’s not clear whether Katie, the original Twitter complainant, was trying to shop in the store where an aisle had been cordoned off by police due to a break in, or if she was told by an employee of a different store that she could not buy sanitary protection. I suppose it’s immaterial as either they didn’t explain properly about the cordon/break in, or she was refused sale by staff in a different store.

This may have been one instance, however, I personally saw in Tesco Cardiff the Book section and the Paper and Printer ink section cordened off with black and yellow tape. I think the bigger issue is the level of control that the WAG are imposing on people, with very little logic behind it.

One can shop for an hour and buy booze, chips and crisps. Yet, i can not pop in an purchase a new duvet, some paper and a condolonce card?

Seems a bit of a non-story tbh. Surely it would have made more sense to have found a sales person in store to find out why the period products and toothpaste etc. were cordoned off rather than contact Twitter - who would have no idea about the individual circumstances of that particular store.

If she was shopping at the St Mellons store as seems the case, she only had to walk a couple of steps to the Lloyds Pharmacy which is directly opposite.

@mejon

Seems a bit of a non-story tbh. Surely it would have made more sense to have found a sales person in store to find out why the period products and toothpaste etc. were cordoned off rather than contact Twitter - who would have no idea about the individual circumstances of that particular store.

If she was shopping at the St Mellons store as seems the case, she only had to walk a couple of steps to the Lloyds Pharmacy which is directly opposite.

The tweet says that Katie was “told” she couldn’t buy sanitary products. That suggests she did speak to someone. I suspect that she was not shopping in the St Mellons store that was cordoned off and someone else in a different store (incorrectly) stopped her from buying the items.

I cannot see the point at all in restricting other items? If the shop is open anyway, why restrict certain things, and who decides which is essential anyway? I mean,m really tesco should only be selling loo roll, bread, milk and such if its only essentials? Or even milk, who needs that when everyone has a tap with water in? Its silly really

@ancientgran

The big fault in the Welsh Governments plan seems to have been expecting people to use commonsense. Obviously Tesco need a bit of support with this.

The big fault really is that shopping for anything is extremely low risk as long as proper social distancing, hygiene and mask wearing is followed. No need to close any shops, or dictate to people what is essential and what isn't.

I am not saying I support this, but it is the same rule when we had the lockdown.

Because supermarkets could stay open but smaller local shops couldn't it was said, and is now being said, supermarkets should not sell products that meant smaller shops would lose out. ie they should stick to being there for essential food items.

ie not fair on say a small clothes shop to not be able to sell clothes, and then because local national supermarket has a range of clothes they can.

There was a big thing for garden centres who couldn't open, but supermarkets could have trays of plants out.

But in this instance no one, unless they are a very uneducated male, could ever have thought that sanitary products were not an essential item. But I suspect there are quite a few who do exist.

stumbledin I imagine that would have simply shifted trade onto the internet and meant people were out of the habit of buying those things in local (national or independent) shops when they reopened.

Aesopfable - that has been used as an arguement, but in fact many small locals shops dont.

It's just another aspect of the fact that most shopping for the home is now done is one of the major national chains. Small shops were already losing the battle, and this may be the end for quite a few.

I think for me its more everyone making a bit more of an effort to be fair. You should of get the impression nowadays that in fact shopping is our national identity and any limitation on that is somehow any infringement on our civil liberties.

Not that any of that thought accounts for whoever thought period products weren't essential.

But quite often the people on the front line of big organisations are often those in the lowest paid jobs and dont necessarily have the training and experience.

Although they are now saying the aisle was closed because there had been a breakin and they were waiting for police to come.

Miscommunication all round.

Of all the things tesco sells, cookware, clothes, electrical items, it seems strange the aisle anyone breaking into would be the one with toothpaste and tampons..

Those are items that get shop lifted but not broken into to obtain...

@Whatwouldscullydo it's the aisle with cosmetics and health and beauty electrics such as hair dryers not just sanitary products.

The interesting part is Drakeford now deeming sanitary products as essential yet still allowing VAT on them. If they are that essential scrap the VAT.

@Queenoftheashes

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

Ffs, I’d take a look at the English response to Covid before criticising the Welsh one (nearly 90% of contacts are successfully traced in Wales, for example), and maybe you could stop being so patronising?

And I should also point out that it was the Conservative Sennedd members who questioned how smaller retailers were being discriminated against by the new shopping rules. Labour responded by stopping supermarkets selling non essential items and Tesco clearly got it wrong. This one example does not mean Wales couldn’t cope with independence.

(Btw I’m English and live in Wales and am feeling much safer for it at the moment!)

Those are items that get shop lifted but not broken into to obtain...

£20k worth of beauty products were stolen from that aisle.

But her tweet specificly says she was told they were non essential..

I'm.sure if they had explained the aisle was under police inspection or whatever shed never have taken to twitter...

Its all so bizarre

Tesco have apologised for their staff member' mistake. Everyone makes them and the staff were probably stressed with having to have the police there etc

The interesting part is Drakeford now deeming sanitary products as essential yet still allowing VAT on them.

VAT is reserved to Westminster.
Drakeford can do nothing about it.

beacuse the price inteh pharmacy is likely to be higher, with less choice. At least that is the case in every pharmacy I have been in.