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Re: Coronavirus latest
« Reply #60 on: Sat 14 Mar 2020 21:18 »
Working for a well established supermarket.. the last few days have been absolute chaos and extremely challenging. Everyone working in our industry is trying our very best but it will get to a point where even the staff will be struggling to cope with such huge demand and unprecedented panic buying that’s going on.

The risk to our welfare is now in question given how much contact we have with everyone.

Stay safe out there!

I can only imagine. I avoid supermarkets - online delivery for me but the thousands of photos out there of empty shelves shows how mad it is. I hope you're not getting yelled at too much about a lack of loo rolls. Never understood the panic buying mentality myself.

For anyone who is on twitter there were some great videos yesterday from all around Italy. People in lockdown areas were on their balconies, music blaring and having a great sing song together. All obeying the distance thing, all in a part of their own homes but a real sense of togetherness.

Times like this I suppose we see both the best and the worst of humanity at the same time.



I was conscripted as a delivery driver today because of the sheer volumes going out the door and everybody thankfully was very understanding and appreciative of the situation...despite us being two hours behind. Most of them said they were just glad they got 95% of what they needed in the door regardless of the time.

As an figure, we are having to pick,separate,crate up and throw in the trailer about 5000 items A DAY at present. Normally it’s around 500 to 700 on normal days.

The issue is not the lack of stock per say, it’s getting ordered but it’s the supply chain that’s part of the issue. There simply isn’t enough drivers for lorries available to get the stock in. When it does arrive in shops, we then have secondary problems of staffing and physically getting the stuff out.

It was so bad Friday we left a whole cage of canned veg out and didn’t even bother putting it on the shelves, people were just taking from the bleeding stock cage!


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