Lets Close the Supermarkets....
Lets Close the Supermarkets....
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surveyor

Original Poster:

18,626 posts

208 months

Sunday 15th March 2020
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Seems a bit wild I know.

But think about it. Online or telephone orders only. Offer support to help those who are not online friendly.

Supermarket can control stockpiling. Ask for volunteers to help deliver the food. Obviously leave on door stop for resident to pick up - not go into someone's house.

Best of all... I won't have to got to the bloody supermarket.. (actually I'd be happy to volunteer to do some deliveries).

Cold

16,457 posts

114 months

Sunday 15th March 2020
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No thanks. Delivery companies are patchy at the best of times.

AdamD

501 posts

244 months

Sunday 15th March 2020
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No thanks, do you want civil unrest?

Robertj21a

18,009 posts

129 months

Sunday 15th March 2020
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surveyor said:
Seems a bit wild I know.

But think about it. Online or telephone orders only. Offer support to help those who are not online friendly.

Supermarket can control stockpiling. Ask for volunteers to help deliver the food. Obviously leave on door stop for resident to pick up - not go into someone's house.

Best of all... I won't have to got to the bloody supermarket.. (actually I'd be happy to volunteer to do some deliveries).
Just pushes customers to smaller shops and it's highly likely to panic people even more.

tribalsurfer

1,236 posts

143 months

Sunday 15th March 2020
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surveyor said:
Seems a bit wild I know.

But think about it. Online or telephone orders only. Offer support to help those who are not online friendly.

Supermarket can control stockpiling. Ask for volunteers to help deliver the food. Obviously leave on door stop for resident to pick up - not go into someone's house.

Best of all... I won't have to got to the bloody supermarket.. (actually I'd be happy to volunteer to do some deliveries).
Interesting, I did say to Mrs Tribal earlier we should get a cow. Endless supply of milk and then when things get vaguely back to normal an amazing amount of steak. She then pointed out that I have layed artifical grass. My idea was stupid but is only second to your on this thread.

anonymous-user

78 months

Sunday 15th March 2020
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tribalsurfer said:
Interesting, I did say to Mrs Tribal earlier we should get a cow. Endless supply of milk and then when things get vaguely back to normal an amazing amount of steak. She then pointed out that I have layed artifical grass. My idea was stupid but is only second to your on this thread.
It could also lick your arse clean, so a saving there, too.

hyphen

26,262 posts

114 months

Sunday 15th March 2020
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surveyor said:
Seems a bit wild I know.

But think about it. Online or telephone orders only. Offer support to help those who are not online friendly.

Supermarket can control stockpiling. Ask for volunteers to help deliver the food. Obviously leave on door stop for resident to pick up - not go into someone's house.

Best of all... I won't have to got to the bloody supermarket.. (actually I'd be happy to volunteer to do some deliveries).
Or they can just open supermarkets but ration items...

Wacky Racer

40,779 posts

271 months

Sunday 15th March 2020
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No thanks.

carlove

7,883 posts

191 months

Sunday 15th March 2020
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It's a really good idea, but I just don't think it'd work, people are too selfish to let it work, there would be civil unrest as somebody else said

I saw a video of a man having a tantrum in Tesco because the wouldn't let him buy the entire shelf of hand sanitizer.
A friend of mine overheard a lady screaming at a member of staff in Tesco because they'd run out of hand sanitizer and she was more important than anybody else.
My local Tesco (a small town) has now got signs up saying violent behaviour will not be tolerated, a sad state of affairs if people are being violent towards shop assistants. I saw a story of somebody being mugged for toilet paper.

These people will just break into stores or people's houses to get loo roll or hand sanitizer, I'm saying to myself as I type "that wouldn't really happen" but I think it would.

They should be rationing things more, the lady working in our Tesco said they get a delivery and the shelves are empty within half an hour, again this is a small town, the cities must be even worse. But you can't win because it'd just end in more abuse to people who are just doing their job.

I don't know what the answer is, I don't think there is one, supermarkets are trying I think but people are just too damn selfish.

Pesty

42,655 posts

280 months

Sunday 15th March 2020
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So you want one person to go around door to door potentially meeting people who are self isolating or infected then you want them to go around to everybody else’s house day until day out.

Great plan.

Agammemnon

1,628 posts

82 months

Sunday 15th March 2020
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When all the panic-buyers have full/overflowing cupboards things will return to normal.

surveyor

Original Poster:

18,626 posts

208 months

Sunday 15th March 2020
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Pesty said:
So you want one person to go around door to door potentially meeting people who are self isolating or infected then you want them to go around to everybody else’s house day until day out.

Great plan.
Nah. Leave the bags on the doorstep innit..

Wacky Racer

40,779 posts

271 months

Sunday 15th March 2020
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Agammemnon said:
When all the panic-buyers have full/overflowing cupboards things will return to normal.
This.

You can only squeeze so many toilet rolls into a house.

BugLebowski

1,035 posts

140 months

Sunday 15th March 2020
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Might as well go the full way and introduce rationing. That would really go down well.

jjones

4,480 posts

217 months

Sunday 15th March 2020
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People have seen what's happened in Italy. Free pornhub premium,no wonder there is a rush on loo roll.

gizlaroc

17,251 posts

248 months

Sunday 15th March 2020
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BugLebowski said:
Might as well go the full way and introduce rationing. That would really go down well.
I think they should.

They want us to shop for elderly relatives and neighbours, but the supermarkets have had to limit people to 4 of an item because of the fkwits.

If you could go in with a ration card you could then buy for others.

gizlaroc

17,251 posts

248 months

Sunday 15th March 2020
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surveyor said:
Nah. Leave the bags on the doorstep innit..
The issue is, the virus is carried on things, for up to 48 hours.


anonymous-user

78 months

Sunday 15th March 2020
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HTF would supermarkets conjure from thin air the fleet of vehicles - a good number of which would have to be refrigerated - and delivery drivers required to do this?

Crazy idea.

Also at odds with the Govt’s strategy of a slow controlled infection to produce herd immunity, and not isolation to snuff the virus out.

Pesty

42,655 posts

280 months

Sunday 15th March 2020
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surveyor said:
Nah. Leave the bags on the doorstep innit..
I live in doncaster

gizlaroc

17,251 posts

248 months

Sunday 15th March 2020
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Pesty said:
I live in doncaster
Blimey, and here we are worrying about the virus.

Thinking of you mate.