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Supermarkets - the Megathread

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  • #632
    RobbingBandit
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,392 ✭✭✭✭RobbingBandit


    I'll reiterate be consistent when buying items in Dunnes particularly yogurt, cakes, processed meats as the items in my local Dunnes are not being disposed of once out of date I bought two four packs of yogurt last night just checked now one is ok it's dated 4th of April and the other 29th of march very frustrating.


  • #633
    Plumbthedepths
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    RobbingBandit wrote: »
    I'll reiterate be consistent when buying items in Dunnes particularly yogurt, cakes, processed meats as the items in my local Dunnes are not being disposed of once out of date I bought two four packs of yogurt last night just checked now one is ok it's dated 4th of April and the other 29th of march very frustrating.

    Food doesn't spoil the second midnight turns on the best before date. Water has a best before date..... Meat would be risky, dairy well it's easy know when not to eat or drink it.


  • #634
    Sheep Shagger
    Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators Posts: 7,047 Mod ✭✭✭✭Sheep Shagger


    Plumbthedepths wrote: »
    Food doesn't spoil the second midnight turns on the best before date. Water has a best before date..... Meat would be risky, dairy well it's easy know when not to eat or drink it.

    True but they should not be selling stuff so close to the use by date- not at full price anyway.


  • #635
    Nollog
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,708 ✭✭✭Nollog


    They wouldn't have to time right now to check dates on all the products, you could check yourself.


  • #636
    Esel
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    Not Your Ornery Onager


    I have eaten plenty of yogurts and petit filous that were more than a month out of date. Absolutely fine every time.

    Not your ornery onager



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  • #637
    greasepalm
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    Ahh crap as threw a number out as by the date well out.


  • #638
    Marymidlands
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 92 ✭✭Marymidlands


    Planning to go shopping tomorrow for my family and hope to pick up a few items for some of my elderly Neighbors. I haven’t been out since last Tuesday where I shopped in Aldi and got a number of items in SuperValu . Wasn’t impressed with Aldi service. SuperValu better in terms of sanitizer and staff but there was quite an amount of elderly who were chatting in isles. Not sure what procedures have been brought in, in my local shops since Friday night. There is also Tesco, Dunnes and Lidl in the town . What shop and time would you recommend ? Am anxious not to get virus!


  • #639
    odyssey06
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 35,623 ✭✭✭✭odyssey06


    I would avoid opening time and lunch time. Lot of people working from home.
    So in theory 11ish.

    And not sure if the priority shopping hours for elderly customers still apply... in theory none of them should be in shops anymore?

    "To follow knowledge like a sinking star..." (Tennyson's Ulysses)



  • #640
    gozunda
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,996 ✭✭✭✭gozunda


    This as a possible next step?

    Food boxes


    https://www.dailypost.co.uk/news/uk-world-news/whats-inside-35-morrisons-food-18011814


  • #641
    greasepalm
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,978 ✭✭✭greasepalm


    Shame on them charging a delivery charge as many are doing their bit with free delivery and worth checking.I rang my local shop to put in an order and they wanted my address but said i would be collecting it 1/2 hour so i would not be hanging around the shop.


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  • #642
    amadangomor
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,148 ✭✭✭amadangomor


    chicorytip wrote: »
    There are no masks available here but a company based in Kilmallock that manufactures them has just agreed a multi million contract to supply the Chinese while even some our own frontline healthcare workers are still going without. It's perverse.

    They didn't just agree. I was reading weeks ago that this contract was already in place and they have to fulfill it.

    Don't be twisting things to suit your moany agenda.


  • #643
    [Deleted User]
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    gozunda wrote: »
    This as a possible next step?

    Food boxes


    https://www.dailypost.co.uk/news/uk-world-news/whats-inside-35-morrisons-food-18011814

    Should be a state led thing and close the shops altogether.


  • #644
    odyssey06
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 35,623 ✭✭✭✭odyssey06


    Tips for supermarket shopping... pickup items with non-dominant hand, wipes down goods or leave for 72 hours if non perishable.
    https://www.rte.ie/news/coronavirus/2020/0401/1127735-coronavirus-washing/

    "To follow knowledge like a sinking star..." (Tennyson's Ulysses)



  • #645
    SuperRabbit
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    ReginaldSmythV wrote: »
    Should be a state led thing and close the shops altogether.

    When Italy locked down there were about 4000 cases, so in reality there were at least 9000, probably more because they weren't able to test enough. That meant loads of people going to the shop had the virus and there was loads and loads of virus being put into the supermarkets, so it didn't slow as much as it should have. We locked down much sooner, thanks to Italy, so we still need to be extremely cautious in the supermarkets but they won't cause as much infections as they did for Italians.


  • #646
    loyatemu
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,614 ✭✭✭✭loyatemu


    odyssey06 wrote: »
    Tips for supermarket shopping... pickup items with non-dominant hand, wipes down goods or leave for 72 hours if non perishable.
    https://www.rte.ie/news/coronavirus/2020/0401/1127735-coronavirus-washing/

    the most effective thing would be to wear a mask while shopping, I think the chances of picking up the virus from touching grocery packaging is pretty small compared to the likelihood of getting it from one of your fellow shoppers or staff (or indeed giving it to them if you have it yourself and don't realise).


  • #647
    SozBbz
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    loyatemu wrote: »
    the most effective thing would be to wear a mask while shopping, I think the chances of picking up the virus from touching grocery packaging is pretty small compared to the likelihood of getting it from one of your fellow shoppers or staff (or indeed giving it to them if you have it yourself and don't realise).

    Just listened to various experts on Pat Kenny. The evidence for masks is inconclusive.

    1. The mask doesnt really protect you from the virus. If you already have it then it protects those around you.
    2. Missuse of masks leads to increasingly touching ones face, this defeating the prevention purpose.
    3. The CDC in the US are currently reviewing all the evidance on masks but at minimum they're saying that a mass public information campaign about how to use them properly, how to wash them in the case of fabric masks etc, would be needed before the advice around them could change.


  • #648
    loyatemu
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,614 ✭✭✭✭loyatemu


    SozBbz wrote: »
    Just listened to various experts on Pat Kenny. The evidence for masks is inconclusive.

    1. The mask doesnt really protect you from the virus. If you already have it then it protects those around you.

    how does that work? either the virus can get through the mask, or it can't.

    I'd also argue the evidence for people getting the virus from cereal packets is sketchy

    (there's a whole thread on masks for this discussion btw)


  • #649
    stockshares
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,760 ✭✭✭stockshares


    A guide to safe shopping by Global Health Ireland.

    https://globalhealth.ie/a-quick-guide-to-safe-shopping-during-the-coronavirus-covid-19-pandemic/


  • #650
    SozBbz
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    loyatemu wrote: »
    how does that work? either the virus can get through the mask, or it can't.

    I'd also argue the evidence for people getting the virus from cereal packets is sketchy

    (there's a whole thread on masks for this discussion btw)

    Obviously enough, the mask catches the virus at the point of the sneeze or cough, thus protecting people, surfaces etc within a certain radius of an infected person from becoming contaminated.

    If you're walking around, touching potentially contaminated surfaces (ie opening a freezer door in a supermarket) and then readjusting your mask because you're not used to having something on your face, or are maybe wearing it wrong so its uncomfortable. Thats how you get infected despite wearing a mask.

    IF everyone knew how to wear masks properly and IF we had enough masks to go around, then sure they'd be helpful, but those are two huge If's.

    Right now we don't have enough masks for our hospital workers and its obvious watching people walking around with masks on but their noses out that neither of the above are in place.


  • #651
    c68zapdsm5i1ru
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    I haven't been in a supermarket for a couple of weeks but the last time I was there my local Supervalu were still displaying their baked goods unwrapped and on a table.

    I've always avoided buying cakes displayed like this because of the probability that customers have been coughing and sneezing over them, handling them etc.

    But I was really surprised to see that they hadn't changed this practise once the coronavirus had begun to spread.

    Just wondering, and sincerely hoping, that this has stopped now and will hopefully not be resumed once life returns to whatever normality the future holds.


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  • #652
    jackofalltrades
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    odyssey06 wrote: »
    And not sure if the priority shopping hours for elderly customers still apply... in theory none of them should be in shops anymore?
    They still apply unfortunately.
    While the idea behind them was a good idea, I think they could be lulling the elderly into a false sense of security.
    The kind of person that these priority shopping hours apply to, are the last kind of people that should really be in shops.
    gozunda wrote: »
    This as a possible next step?

    Food boxes


    https://www.dailypost.co.uk/news/uk-world-news/whats-inside-35-morrisons-food-18011814
    A good idea for the not too fussy.
    A load of fruit&veg shops and butchers now do a similar type of offering.
    You get to support local businesses while reducing your risk of exposure.


  • #653
    c68zapdsm5i1ru
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    /\/ollog wrote: »
    They wouldn't have to time right now to check dates on all the products, you could check yourself.

    Surely the fewer shoppers handling goods on shelves at the moment the better.


  • #654
    odyssey06
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 35,623 ✭✭✭✭odyssey06


    LIDL used to do that but they are now all wrapped up ... I always thought it was risky to begin with. You can hardly rinse off a croissant or whatever like you can with unwrapped fruit \ veg.

    "To follow knowledge like a sinking star..." (Tennyson's Ulysses)



  • #655
    Vetch
    Closed Accounts Posts: 422 ✭✭Vetch


    I think that I read somewhere that shops are supposed to wrap baked goods now. Hopefully, it will continue. During summer in particular, baked goods attract flying insects at the best of times.


  • #656
    SmartinMartin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,936 ✭✭✭SmartinMartin


    While we're on the subject, I know Lidl bake their bread etc on site, but does anyone know do they use fresh ingredients or is it from frozen dough? To settle an argument. I'm saying fresh.


  • #657
    suicide_circus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,802 ✭✭✭✭suicide_circus


    SmartinMartin wrote: »
    While we're on the subject, I know Lidl bake their bread etc on site, but does anyone know do they use fresh ingredients or is it from frozen dough? To settle an argument. I'm saying fresh.
    do you think there is someone in the back of Lidl kneading dough? of course its frozen!


  • #658
    greasepalm
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,978 ✭✭✭greasepalm


    Oh sorry i thought i needed that but it was the bigger size i will buy now,stocking reaching up to grab or move something,surface in which it sits on ,carrier bags boxes getting reused as the list can grow and the soul of your foot

    .

    I think now i will use a collapsible crate that is bigger to move and easier to clean.+wearing of full face mask and respirator and gloves .:eek::D


  • #659
    biko
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 81,219 ✭✭✭✭biko


    Dunnes wrap too, I was there a couple days ago.


  • #660
    SuperRabbit
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 698 ✭✭✭SuperRabbit


    They'll be fine, just microwave it when you get home and try not to touch it before hand (wash your hands if you touch it) Two minutes in the microwave, so don't get anything that would be destroyed by 2 minutes in the microwave https://regenexx.com/blog/coronavirus-episode-12-does-a-microwave-kill-coronavirus/


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  • #661
    hmmm
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,203 ✭✭✭✭hmmm


    gozunda wrote: »
    This as a possible next step?

    Food boxes
    Even without delivery, it'd be great if you could pick up something like this at the start of the shop. A box of staples effectively, so you only have to run in and pick up some individual items.

    Now I know this goes against everything supermarkets try to do in normal times, they'll have the milk in one corner, bread hidden down the back etc, but these are not normal times. The supermarket who did this would get my business.


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