Same as here so

...it’s still nice for people to actually be able to feel the quality of things like children’s clothes when they’re at the supermarket...rather than a more unknown of that on eBay and the likes...

how nice

Don't waste your time is my advice Ammi.
Your thread and title is perfectly appropriate and sensible.
As is even more your opening post.

Don't let nitpicking get to you.
Sometimes it's best to to just step back.

You don't need or likely want my advice but I'll give it anyway.

Just pushing more and more retail traffic to Amazon and other online retail tbh. Not that I can say much, I'm a prime member and use Amazon all the time :shrug:


Also...

"essential only"

... "off-licences"


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Tbf most offlicences have a smail food and fresh veg section, they are also where you can top up your oyster and buy the lottery and cigs at least around here anyway

Off Licenses are bloody essential ffs!! Don't take every form of entertainment from us!

Cherie pops out for her "lottery ticket"

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:laugh:

TS wants us all teetotal by the end of the pandemic

My friend who works in Asda just put in the group chat fireworks aren't being sold.

I've very happy as lots of poor animals are petrified of them

:oh:

That's good to hear

I’d say off licences are essential since they do sell a fair amount of essential items. During the first lockdown it was one of the very few places you could actually by toilet/ kitchen roll where I lived since all the bigger supermarket chains were always completely wiped out. I don’t see why they should be closed?

I actually don't want them sectioning off any areas of shops to decide for people what is and isn't "essential" :hee:

However I just find it a really bleak painting of our society when new underpants are considered non-essential, but a bottle of MD20/20 is a staple requirement.

That’s actually great to hear. My dogs are fine with fireworks but it must be awful for animals that are left outside all the time (horses and stray foxes for example).

A supermarket in Wales, with non-essentials being covered up with Dexter plastic wrap.

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...that looks as though it could he bedding/warm blankets being covered up in the winter ...crazy...

I get it. They only want people going in the supermarket if shopping for food, it's not hard. They don't want anyone popping in for homeware, as said they can order those things online if that desperate.

Speaking as someone who worked in a shop that was considered essential when everything was locked down, this is an excellent idea and I support it fully. We were considered essential because we sold certain essential items but during the lockdown we were constantly selling out on decorating and gardening items as well as other pointless fluff. People were coming out to the shops for no good reason.

Non-essential areas should be roped off in times of lockdown.

Yeah who needs duvets, we can huddle together for warmth! Or skin a mammoth if it comes down to it.

Utterly ridiculous. I get it for some items but some of their definition of non-essential is ****ing stupid. Clothes, bedding and many non-food home items are clearly essentials if what you have gets unexpectedly broken or damaged.

Amazon will be delighted

...yeah, these are exactly my thoughts...it’s how essential and non essential are defined...a warmer duvet or blanket for an elderly person or for anyone who hasn’t got efficient heating etc...could be an essential purchase...

When you own a 1 year old labrador who might eat literally anything and literally any time, a lot of things become immediate essentials, and you can't always wait a few days for an Internet order. E.g. There are MULTIPLE occasions that I've had to pile a kid into the car in their socks to swing past a supermarket for a new pair of trainers, while the dog sulks and digests the previous pair.

She hadn't torn up a duvet yet but... It's certainly within the realms of possibility.

Kids with just one pair of shoes, what is this the 1970s :omgno:

Surely you have school shoes, trainers, good shoes and wellys :suspect:

School shoes are for school :nono:, we were waiting for her new boots from Next :hee: and she, for some reason, about 2 months ago decided that she despises wellies.

She does have a spare pair of trainers now though :joker:.

Actually I say she does. She DID. Because another ****ing shoe got chewed on Wednesday! They got dirty so they were sat in the kitchen (where the dog lives when we go out) and we stupidly went for a Starbucks drive through and she had got one of them :fist:.

She had also gotten into the recycling bin.

I need to make her some sort of padded cell.

Wait till the ghost of Christmas future arrives at soldiers house on Christmas eve.

Christmas 2020 is CANCELLED so I'll dodge that bullet.

...I have known many, many children with only one pair of shoes and not even Wellington boots to fit them, schools have provided those when needed...there are many families who have very low incomes...

Is Anne summers open?

wait a few more years she will have a room full of the things :laugh:

yes I am sure there are but TS has a good job and so does his wife? if he were on bennies I wouldn't have made the remark

Ah right so it's OK to scoff at poor people with other better off people?...got it.

You know that was not the intention so bore off and bait someone else

Sounded just like that to me, I didn't get an apology when you misinterpreted me so don't hold your breath.

Trust me an apology is the last thing I was expecting :joker:

I no longer work in retail but a few friends do and they said the same, it was meant to be essential shopping and the customers were in buying crap. Time to enforce this to stop the selfish people who refuse to comply.

Who is defining what is an essential item? Also, where is the science behind this? Not behind this move at all I'm afraid.

"Essential items" are totally subjective, especially if you're working from home/self-employed.

For example - I do freelance portrait commissions and have a few family and pet portrait deadlines coming up in the next few weeks in time for Christmas, so for me, essential items are pencils, paper, frames etc.

These items are deemed completely non-essential by the government and are (literally) being cordoned off in the shops. I understand that it's a way to stop browsing temptation and for people to just "get in and get out" as quickly as possible and I could order supplies online etc etc, but come on...