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Supermarkets - the Megathread

Muahahaha

Just back from Aldi and Dunnes, neither was particularly busy but there was no fresh chicken to be found anywhere. The security guard in Dunnes was at the entrance wiping down customers trollies and basket handles with wet wipes and all the staff were wearing gloves.

Have heard Lidl are implementing priority shopping for OAPs from 9 to 11am which is good news.

Electrical shops in Dublin are reporting that you cant buy a chest freezer anywhere, they all sold out over the weekend.

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Plumbthedepths

Snow Garden wrote: »

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/coronavirus-outrage-bins-pictured-filled-21773469

Selfish pr*cks.

SuperRabbit

I didn't realize anyone was stupid enough to stock up on stuff with expiration dates. Humans are so strange.

Shelflife

freshpopcorn wrote: »

Was it s big Centra and what was on your shopping list?
I just say this because our of most of the centras and spars I know of they would only have about 60% of our weekly shop on a good day and several items would nearly be double the price.
Saying go to your local shop is great but not realistic for lots of people.

Maybe in some of the city centre/forecourt high convenience stores, but many of the rural shops like my own have a good selection and are reasonably priced.

Satts

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NsNWbfatRwg

Cash is King in southern Italy. Many workers struggling to prove they were working and having trouble trying to get emergency payments.
Groups organising to take food from shops.
If I were going to raid a shop I would be aiming a little higher than Lidl

Hopefully the emergency payments will stop this happening here.

BanditLuke

Snow Garden wrote: »

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/coronavirus-outrage-bins-pictured-filled-21773469

You'd weep for humanity when you see this.

RobbingBandit

Loads of stock is extremely short-dated in fridges in Dunnes and Marks & Spencer two days max date from what I've seen if you aren't paying attention to dates you will find your ending up throwing a lot away unfortunately these are use by dates not best before food poisoning from beef products is a nasty experience wouldn't mind a few weeks ago the dates were upwards of 10 days in date for rustlers burgers, now it's way less.

freshpopcorn

Shelflife wrote: »

Maybe in some of the city centre/forecourt high convenience stores, but many of the rural shops like my own have a good selection and are reasonably priced.

My experience is with small local town stores.
All very expensive in my experience.
They might stock the odd special offer but that’s about it.
However I suppose it depends on what’s on your shopping list.

GetWithIt

The food in that Mirror article looks too good.

I'll just put myself in the position of a self-isolating journalist with a deadline, or perhaps a freelancer who only gets paid by the article. I need to get a story out but only have whatever is to hand and will need to McGyver something.

Right so, bananas, bread, chicken portions, bin. What can I possibly do with that ....

Nollog

Satts wrote: »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NsNWbfatRwg

Cash is King in southern Italy. Many workers struggling to prove they were working and having trouble trying to get emergency payments.
Groups organising to take food from shops.
If I were going to raid a shop I would be aiming a little higher than Lidl

Hopefully the emergency payments will stop this happening here.

If you were stealing from a shop, youd not get a better target.
The stock is sitting there by the pallet, no metal shelves on top and below the rustler burgers, jambons, toilet roll jamming them in there so you can't get them out without a big heave-ho.

The_Honeybadger

GetWithIt wrote: »

The food in that Mirror article looks too good.

I'll just put myself in the position of a self-isolating journalist with a deadline, or perhaps a freelancer who only gets paid by the article. I need to get a story out but only have whatever is to hand and will need to McGyver something.

Right so, bananas, bread, chicken portions, bin. What can I possibly do with that ....

That crossed my mind as well

SuperRabbit

Italy: Global pandemic, killing 10% of confirmed cases in your country: Raid Lidl for food
Ireland: Bit of snow: break Lidl's roof in with a JCB

zell12

Austria to make it compulsory to wear a face mask when shopping!

SuperRabbit

If there are enough masks it's a good idea. If I had a sewing machine I'd be making them. We know it's good for people who have it to wear masks to prevent it spreading, so if we are supposed to pretend we have it (since we all might) it's a good idea to wear them (but not if it means a shortage for people who definitely need them). The S. Korea government gave everyone one.

The numbers suggest a lot of people end up catching it at the supermarket

, because infections in Italy and China kept going well after they had closed everything except supermarkets, China ended up closing supermarkets and delivering food to people. I'd say that was because so so so many people in the community already had it by the time lockdown came.

It's also crazy that thousands of people still have to go to the post office to collect their dole or pandemic payment, despite having an Irish bank account it could easily go into. That needs to change.

If you do wear a mask I'd suggest doing something to make it less scary for kiddies, draw smiley face or something on it

Muahahaha

Satts wrote: »

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Cash is King in southern Italy. Many workers struggling to prove they were working and having trouble trying to get emergency payments.
Groups organising to take food from shops.
If I were going to raid a shop I would be aiming a little higher than Lidl

Hopefully the emergency payments will stop this happening here.

Read an article yesterday and things are really kicking off in Sicily, they reckon about 40% of the population there work cash in hand and have lost their jobs and cant get any government assistance as they're off the books. Politicians are saying the Mafia are looking to exploit the situation. They are going to distribute 400m worth of food vouchers to be but the problem is the poorest may not get them.

Leoluca Orlando, the mayor of Palermo, warned that if something was not done to help the poor, the Mafia could exploit the situation.

“Discomfort and malaise are growing and we are recording worrying reports of protest and anger that is being exploited by criminals who want to destabilise the system,” he told told Sky News.

“The more time passes, the more resources are exhausted. The few savings people have are running out,” he added. “This tells us socio-economic issues will erupt.”

Pope Francis raised the alarm over the socioeconomic fallout of the coronavirus pandemic during a mass live-streamed on Saturday. “We begin to see people who are hungry, because they cannot work, they did not have a permanent job, and for many circumstances,” he said.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/29/italy-sets-aside-400m-for-food-vouchers-as-social-unrest-mounts

sheepsh4gger

Muahahaha wrote: »

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/29/italy-sets-aside-400m-for-food-vouchers-as-social-unrest-mounts

They should have done this here also.

McDermotX

Popped into a mini-market, pseudo-Super Valu if you will.....no queue, spacing around the till area, perspex up for the workers etc

But......couple kids on their own (early teens max), not with each other, one of them coughing and sputtering, grabbing their whatnots (couldn't be arsed with baskets or course).
No parents to be found for these junior scrotes just let wander about.....no doubt adult scrote versions to begin with I'd imagine.
Navigate through that, only to be met by the 'story bud'-beggar outside looking for the next contribution for his fix.

Security guard on the door doing feck all of course, but sure why would he in any case ? Haven't spotted a Guard anywhere in the handful of times I've been out the last week or so.

Think I'll be frequenting the larger store for when essentials are needed.

Snow Garden

McDermotX wrote: »

Security guard on the door doing feck all of course, but sure why would he in any case ? Haven't spotted a Guard anywhere in the handful of times I've been out the last week or so.

I think all the Gardai were escorting the safety gear brought in from China yesterday.

RiseAbove4

Recommended online pharmacies that will deliver antihistamines?

I believe Boots have a ridiculous online waiting time and wait in delivery

Thanks

odyssey06

RiseAbove4 wrote: »

Recommended online pharmacies that will deliver antihistamines?
I believe Boots have a ridiculous online waiting time and wait in delivery

4 day delivery backlog here:
https://www.inishpharmacy.com/

SuperRabbit

Went to my local shop today.

They weren't practising social distancing.
They weren't limiting the number of people in the shop and it was absolutely packed when I left, no space to distance. (it was empty when i went in, that's why I thought it would be ok

)
They didn't have a card reader and were asking everyone to pay in cash.
And the staff (presumably the owners) were elderly.

BanditLuke

SuperRabbit wrote: »

Went to my local shop today.

They weren't practising social distancing.
They weren't limiting the number of people in the shop and it was absolutely packed when I left, no space to distance. (it was empty when i went in, that's why I thought it would be ok )
They didn't have a card reader and were asking everyone to pay in cash.
And the staff (presumably the owners) were elderly.

If possible vote with your wallet and shop somewhere else.

[Deleted User]

BanditLuke wrote: »

If possible vote with your wallet and shop somewhere else.

It was empty when they went in.

SuperRabbit

Yeah I won't go back, don't worry. I'm just sad and worried.. worried for the people working in the shop and any customers connected with vulnerable people

whiskeyman

Went to a large store earlier.
Seemed well managed, but worst offenders are staff... mostly young probably taken on board recently.

Walking right past and chatting away.

SuperRabbit

RiseAbove4 wrote: »

Recommended online pharmacies that will deliver antihistamines?

I believe Boots have a ridiculous online waiting time and wait in delivery

Thanks

Spooner's CareFirst pharmacy have a facebook ad saying they deliver if you are in that area... Check out your local pharmacies on facebook and see what they're saying

jackofalltrades

SuperRabbit wrote: »

The numbers suggest a lot of people end up catching it at the supermarket , because infections in Italy and China kept going well after they had closed everything except supermarkets, China ended up closing supermarkets and delivering food to people. I'd say that was because so so so many people in the community already had it by the time lockdown came.

It's also crazy that thousands of people still have to go to the post office to collect their dole or pandemic payment, despite having an Irish bank account it could easily go into. That needs to change.

You're right, it is crazy that with all the restrictions that we have, we still have people queuing up to go into shops and Post offices every day.

There needs to be a big push to incentivise online shopping.
Bring in big subsidies for companies who provide it.
At the very least you should be able to go to your local supermarket and have your shopping put in the boot of your car with no contact.

The_Honeybadger

jackofalltrades wrote: »

You're right, it is crazy that with all the restrictions that we have, we still have people queuing up to go into shops and Post offices every day.

There needs to be a big push to incentivise online shopping.
Bring in big subsidies for companies who provide it.
At the very least you should be able to go to your local supermarket and have your shopping put in the boot of your car with no contact.

The online shopping infrastructure that the supermarkets have was not designed for that kind of volume. Leaving aside home delivery it would be logistically impossible to pick everyone’s shopping and put it in the boot for them, that’s a niche service model that you can provide for a small number of customers at best.

All they can do is rigorously implement the recommended hygiene measures across the board and provide home delivery for elderly and vulnerable by collaborating with local community groups. If people would stop losing their minds every time Leo is on telly it would be a big help also.

Living Off The Splash

zell12 wrote: »

Austria to make it compulsory to wear a face mask when shopping!

This is only right. Same in China. The problem in Ireland is that there are no face masks available. Maybe the Government should have filled two planes full of protective gear and distributed 4 masks per month per household.

The_Honeybadger

Living Off The Splash wrote: »

This is only right. Same in China. The problem in Ireland is that there are no face masks available. Maybe the Government should have filled two planes full of protective gear and distributed 4 masks per month per household.

Even having a member of staff at the door to wipe down trolleys and ensure everyone entering the shop sanitised their hands would make a big difference. The supermarkets are cleaning up right now and could easily afford to do this. There was no controls at all in place the last time I visited my local Aldi.

Atlantic Dawn

Supermarkets should ban mobile phone use by customers instore. Trying to safely get around the shop leaving 2 metre gaps while some asshole/assholette chats oblivious on their phone is a mess.