Following Ease Of Lockdown

[tiggerblue10]

How will you feel when lockdown is eventually eased?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-52495201

Personally, I'm within the %ages that will feel uncomfortable going out, sending my child to school and using public transport.

[emmie]

this is what i put

morning Boaty, will see what the weather does today as to whether i go out. My brother is going to call this morning so must be in for that.

[emmie]

and don't in future lecture me, i don't much care for it.

[diddlydo]

Sorry - "call" implied visit . I presume you meant phone.

[emmie]

yes

[10ClarionSt]

I'll be delighted that they've seen sense at last. There was never any need for it. Get up and get on with and stop whimpering.

[fiction-factory]

Yes some might say we had too many old or diabetic people, bus drivers and doctors/ nurses and loads of spare capacity in hospitals and mortuaries

[New Judge]

//The new slots were being released at midnight and were all gone by morning.//

Been there, done that (but they were out of T-Shirts). I've actually watched the new day added to the calendar at midnight only for it to show "No Slots Available."

[tiggerblue10]

Exactly same thing happened to me last night NJ. I waited from 23.50 to try and catch a Tesco slot at 23.55 and they all went. It puts you into a queue which refreshes every 30 seconds so I waited and waited. But then it went back to the calendar page and all the slots had gone.

I did hear that Tesco were 'ramping up' their delivery capacity from 500k to 1m. Not sure when that will be effective from though as they need to recruit drivers.

[ladybirder]

Have any of you tried Waitrose? They've taken on lots more drivers from John Lewis.

[fiction-factory]

Click and collect seems a good option to me. Maybe more slots are available than when I gave up trying during the toilet roll shortage.
Those Morrisons or M&S food hampers don't look too bad for those who can't/don't want to go to a store- I know a few people who got those quite easily so can't be too difficult

[tiggerblue10]

I've got Ocado but they won't allow anyone who don't allow anyone who isn't on their priority list to place orders.

[New Judge]

//Click and collect seems a good option to me.//

Exactly the same as deliveries - no slots (or at least there were not last time at looked which was about a week ago).

//Have any of you tried Waitrose?//

Yup. Sure fire way to be allocated a slot is to apply for a Waitrose credit card. You'll get a slot then - but only the once.

[rowanwitch]

Iceland seems the easiest for slots and I can book Morrison's about a week ahead, the advantages of living on the fringe of an area where shopping at Aldi is for the better off, farmfoods is for treats and their laptops smartphones and tablets are currently sitting in cash converters so they can't order online

I know I am lucky, by my friends standards I am hard up but I don't have to worry where my next meal is coming from

[Prudie]

I understand and sympathise greatly with those who can't get slots but surely not all of you can't go out? We have managed to do our normal big weekly supermarket shop every Friday afternoon as we always did.

[New Judge]

Most of the above indicates to me that the "Stay at Home - save Lives" mantra is all fine and dandy - provided you're prepared to sacrifice your own life through malnutrition, that is. Frankly I'm sick of being told to stay at home and until somebody devises a satisfactory way for me to get my victuals I'll be going out. There's no way I'm faffing about in the middle of the night trying to secure non-existent delivery slots. It's interesting in that last week one of the papers carried an interview with a supermarket delivery driver. He explained how busy he had been recently but that much of his work had involved delivering crates of alcohol to locked down thirty-somethings. So at least something works.

[fiction-factory]

But supermarkets and shops are open and it is a valid reason for travel, so I'm not sure what your point is, NJ, for those like you who can and do get out to shop. If you can't get out then there is help available

[teacake44]

I don't recall being told that you can't go food shopping for yourself should you be fit an able?

[NickorWan]

If people who can go to the supermarket didn't take the delivery slots the system would work better I would imagine.

[fiction-factory]

I'm surprised more white van local fruit &veg or other farm shop mobile shops haven't been operating. Now I'm furloughed I wish I'd thought of doing it. The milkman here has seen his business boom and can do eggs and other things too

[tiggerblue10]

If I can't get a slot I will need to drive to either Tesco or Sainsbury's with Little Tiggs. Neither of my local stores have petrol stations so will need to go via one before shopping.