Coronavirus

[4D]

Why is anyone going to the supermarket? Any remotely digital savvy person can do their grocery shop online.

The big supermarkets have capacity for around 750k to 1m slots a week. Best guess is 5m slots a week for let's say 3 people on average, that covers 15m people for their weekly shop. What about the other 51m?

[Panda Paws]

Have you ever tried to see anything form someone else's point of view before?

It was a question, and some people made good points in response, rather than get pissy for no reason.

I see the world through my own experiences. I've not had unfulfilled orders or problems getting slots.

[Abrahammer]

My elderly father in lockdown 1 accepted that we would sort him out an online shop from up here, which we did and now he does it all himself and he is hardly IT savvy, the thing is all a question of compromise and sacrifice, I enjoy going to the pub yet have not set foot in one since February, we all have to make compromises for the common good, read social media and the whole argument seems to be 'why aren't those wankers following the rules' rapidly followed by the same people stating 'I am not keeping to the rules because they inconvenience me'.

The whole mental health thing is weird also as its not a question of either/or, yes mental health is a concern, but should we fuck up peoples physical health just because of it? It seems to have become a cause celeb for the anti-lock downers, who in many cases are of a right wing persuasion who have been voting for the mental health system to be decimated for years yet now are suddenly very concerned about it. Spoke to my neighbour who is a mental health nurse at the start of lockdown 1, they were/are worried sick about the effects, but also equally mindful of the wider effects on mental health if you go and see Great Aunt Mabel as she cannot be alone, give her covid which you didn't know you had and then she dies leading to metal heath issues throughout the family.

I will leave it to Kathy Burke as she is much more eloquent than me.. https://twitter.com/KathyBurke/status/1346411132823744512?s=20



 

Kathy is absolutely right.

I spent the 2nd lockdown living alone, fuck me. You honestly have to experience it to really understand and that was only what a month or so from memory? Thankfully me and the bird are back together now so I don’t have to go through that again

It’s all about finding the correct balance IMO with regard to single households, a tricker task than many realise and i don’t think there is a hard and fast answer.

[Abrahammer]

I've not had unfulfilled orders

You might this week by the sounds of it with fruit and veg! we know that’s the fault of something else though

[pauld]

It was a question, and some people made good points in response, rather than get pissy for no reason.

I see the world through my own experiences. I've not had unfulfilled orders or problems getting slots.

IIRC you live in or near London.  Maybe your local supermarkets are better staffed or possibly have a higher proportion of their customers doing in person shopping, leaving more delivery slots free? Certainly in the Swindon area it's been patchy at best to nigh on impossible at times getting delivery slots.

[Peter Venkman]

Its almost impossible to get any supermarket home deliveries down here in South Somerset, and when we do we have about 20+ replacements. You have to book a slot about 4 weeks in advance, its got worse since this latest lockdown.

[Panda Paws]

IIRC you live in or near London.  Maybe your local supermarkets are better staffed or possibly have a higher proportion of their customers doing in person shopping, leaving more delivery slots free? Certainly in the Swindon area it's been patchy at best to nigh on impossible at times getting delivery slots.

Yeah maybe - that's why I asked. Purely on my own experiences, I can't fathom why anyone would go to the supermarket at the best of times, let alone in the middle of pandemic.

[pauld]

Yeah maybe - that's why I asked. Purely on my own experiences, I can't fathom why anyone would go to the supermarket at the best of times, let alone in the middle of pandemic.

I'd certainly agree with that as a preference, got far better things to be doing with my time, but have spent more time in supermarkets over the past 10 months than at any time in the past decade. Needs must.

[horlock07]

Yeah maybe - that's why I asked. Purely on my own experiences, I can't fathom why anyone would go to the supermarket at the best of times, let alone in the middle of pandemic.

Indeed, we have been avoiding supermarkets for about 7 years now, god awful places. One advantage of that is that as Mrs Horlock07 pay for a yearly delivery pass from Asda she can and has applied for a guaranteed slot each week which has worked in both lockdowns.

FWIW whilst we are more sparsely populated up here, we are also obviously much more sparsely supermarketed (nearest one is over 20 mins drive away) whilst it was tricky its never been impossible to get a slot (sometimes have to look around to find one at either Tesco/Asda/Morrisons/sainsburys) but usually one somewhere (this was in lockdown 1 when for the first few weeks Asda fucked it up), plus for the elderly/at risk they get priority at least at sainsburys, I know for instance that my old mans priority hopping has at times come from a Swindon store and he lives near Witney.

Long and short is people need to get organised and think ahead (this is really not helped by this happening on top of the Brexit fuck up, albeit its a good way for the government to hide/blame that shit show), people need to start thinking of others and not just how things affect them alone its hardly fucking rocket science. 

[theakston2k]

What's this rumour about only being allowed out of the house once a week that the likes of Gary Neville have been posting about? That can't be under serious consideration surely?

[Batch]

I'd imagine they throw everything onto the table. most of which will be dismissed .

the cynic in me says they are leaking the contents of said table to try and scare the public into doing what they should be doing

[Arriba]

Not easy to get delivery slots at all. You have to book well in advance and then change your choices the night before according to my mum who's been doing it since March.
Personally I go shopping very early once a week. Only problem is some of the idiot worker's who invade your space doing people's home shopping for them  

[horlock07]

I'd imagine they throw everything onto the table. most of which will be dismissed .

the cynic in me says they are leaking the contents of said table to try and scare the public into doing what they should be doing

That's the way this government has been governing since day 1 (pre-covid) they comes up with an idea leak to the press through journalists courtesans like Peston and LK and see what the public say, then they make a policy decision, quite literally classic Dom.

Not easy to get delivery slots at all. You have to book well in advance and then change your choices the night before according to my mum who's been doing it since March.

T'was always like that even pre-covid, to claim a slot you have to have £'x' in your basket, my missus has always done that by putting 3-4 wine boxes in the basket and then revising nearer the date, leading to a couple of times when she has forgotten to revise and we have had a very boozy week!

[horlock07]

Well there you go, Supermarket sticks head above parapet....

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-55618408

[Batch]

great news. that's the closest supermarket