KiKi III wrote: » Apparently so. I’ll have one more go. Supermarket = essential (you’re going either way) Booze = non-essential Luckily, in the supermarket they sell booze. So on your essential trip to the supermarket it’s incredibly easy to pick up some alcohol too. Everyone you meet at the supermarket you’re meeting regardless of whether or not you get alcohol, because you have to go there to feed yourself one way or the other. No need for the second, non-essential trip, second encounter with a cashier, second card machine.
Poor_old_gill wrote: » I'll have one more. Ok so all butchers must go too as you can buy meat in your supermarket?
niallo27 wrote: » Can you buy drink today it being good friday, Im going for a few cans. This is a genuine question by the way.
MOH wrote: » It's amazing to me that people who claim to be only interested in following Government COVID-19 guidelines are actually using a global pandemic to push their own separate agendas. Have a think on that.
never_mind wrote: » *bangs head on table* So one big long cue is better than two small ones? Are we honestly that bored that we are debating this?
KiKi III wrote: » It’s amazing to me that people on this thread genuinely seem to equate food and medicine with alcohol in terms of necessity. Have a think on that.
KiKi III wrote: » This will be my last post to you because at this stage I actually think you’re just trolling. Just in case you’re not: There are no shops with hundreds of people in them. Supermarkets are operating very strict one in one out policies so that a limited number of people are inside at any given time and you encounter very few of them directly. You are just making up things about me and my shopping habits either to troll or because it’s easier than discussing things with me based on logic, which seems to be an issue for you.
KiKi III wrote: » Food shop = 1 queue Offy = 1 queue 1 + 1 = 2 Buy your food and drink together = 1 queue total
MOH wrote: » Can you please provide a reliable source of figures to prove the percentages of people who are queueing in the off licence who are also then going and queueing in the supermarket? Because basic common sense would suggest that people who were out to shop for both food and drink would indeed go to the supermarket and buy both there since, as you so astutely pointed out, it is not in fact rocket science. But the fact that people are still going to off licences would suggest either they're totally unaware of this - in which case perhaps we need to kind of government information campaign to make people aware that they can buy alcohol in supermarkets - or that they're actually just buying alcohol, in which case they're quite logically doing so in a premises designated specifically for that purpose, rather than wasting other people's time taking up valuable space in a supermarket. Have you also considered closing chemists? You can buy paracetemol and the like in a supermarket. Or maybe just keep them for prescriptions only. And all forms of takeaway food - you can buy food in a supermarket, and take it away. I bet if we put our thinking caps on we can come up with a whole range of businesses we can shut down. For the good of the country, of course.
pgj2015 wrote: » There is always 1 ar$ehole with a guitar isnt there.
FixdePitchmark wrote: » But - I keep telling you there are 100s in tesco - and zero in small local shop. And very few in local centra. You do not need to go to a big shop - (maybe once every 2 weeks) and in particular not as often as you are. You are the problem going shopping all the time to entertain yourelf.
ThewhiteJesus wrote: » Great craic here by the canal in rathmines, plenty boozing and even a dude playing guitar, happy days
KiKi III wrote: » The people who are queuing in the offy are also queuing in the supermarket. I’m sugggesting they put a few bottles of wine or beer into their trolley and queue once in one location instead of twice in two locations. It’s not rocket science.
glasso wrote: » take a picture?
KiKi III wrote: » Are you being deliberately obtuse? If you encounter 25 people in the shop and 5 in the offy, you’ve increased the total number of people interacted with by 25%. Two trips to two locations is a greater risk than one trip to one location. Especially when that one location is the essential one and the second is completely optional.
FixdePitchmark wrote: » It is time and number of people - you don't get this ?
Cork Boy 53 wrote: » Government press conference due at 4pm.
