[Kizzy]

Originally Posted by Toy Soldier

Yes it was a mistake, as I said with mistakes being inevitable when everyone is passing the buck and refusing to give clear, simple guidance and leaving the decision down to people who are not qualified to make such decisions, and based on absolutely nothing other than gut feeling. There is no science at all behind this.

And qualifications of course are absolutely relevant here. A supermarket management team, you may expect, will have vast experience in staff management, stock ordering, budgeting, security concerns, cleanliness and hygiene, store layouts... all sorts of things that are relevant to their job.

They have no relevant knowledge or experience whatsoever in making executive decisions about which products should or shouldn't be considered essential purchases. You might as well ask the next person you pass in the street. The scope for subjectivity is so massive that it just becomes ridiculous, and that is evident from the number of "mistakes" that have been made already.

Again; there needs to be clear, simple, cohesive guidance on which aisles should be closed coming from the people calling for closures (in this case, the Welsh government) OR shops should simply continue to sell their whole range whilst encouraging customers not to "window shop".

Science..., which science tells you what items to sell during a lock down?

Again your reference to qualifications makes no sense in the context of the topic covid essential items. You appear to have contradicted your earlier '3 GCSE' comments by now admitting that managers are indeed intelligent to be able to run stores effectively.

Yes there have been one or two errors but we are in unchartered territory here, I think there's a review today so maybe later they'll be greater transparency on what is and isn't available?