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!
I shall be interested to see what happens if/when we 70 year olds are quarantined indoors for 4 months as both Mrs AT and I are now in that category. At the moment, we head out to the v.g. Sainsbury's in Nantwich every few weeks whilst our younger neighbours get there's delivered on line. As I see it, this will be reversed and we will sit back and wait for the online deliveries to be made whilst watching old episodes of Corrie and Heartbeat and watching our neighbours heading off with plastic bags in hand. I too am trying to remain calm but I cannot see this working for long 
AT ---I am with you on this thought because we are also a few years into our 70s and very active and have never entertained shopping on line, particularly for foodstuff because I want to see what I am buying. I am also a Voluntary Caseworker for SSAFA Forces Help and I am concerned about some of the clients who I am currently dealing with because they are certainly in need of help a lot more than I am!
Nothing much phases me, however, this latest idea will certainly test my patience if/when it comes to pass. How will they police it anyway?
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