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7 hours ago, RedM said:

Yes, of course. I just assumed that was a given. More online slots should be made available and processed quickly. I think people are finding though that there are no slots, or a long wait for one and having to physically shop anyway, and many online orders are missing the vital things people need

I work as a picker in Asda.   Manic now as you would imagine, starting at 4 or 5 in the mornings. don't think it's possible to have any more slots as were picking 20,000 items a day in the store as opposed to a norm of probably 7 or 8,000.   Plus we don't have the vans to cover anymore slots, it's not like you could hire any old van to do the job.

As for keeping the shelves full it's impossible The store opened a 8 this morning to give us a chance, a lot of idiots were waiting outside before six!!!

Once in they had stripped the chilled section of Chicken, Mince and Pork within two hours.

Still feeling pretty protected now as the ****** maniacs come charging in as my  wife ordered me a box of latex gloves??

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https://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/news/marcus-rashford-teams-up-fareshare-21723414

Something good here, which I found when I was searching for news about this charity, which I’ve just started volunteering for one day a week.

Well done Marcus R.

Along with the Gary Neville/Ryan Giggs hotel news it almost makes it difficult to dislike Man United.

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1 hour ago, downendcity said:

You've done it now!

Expect shops to run out of  Rat Poison now you've mentioned the Black Death in connection with coronavirus.

 

If you could get it at Tesco, it would be sold out.

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16 minutes ago, stephenkibby. said:

I work as a picker in Asda.   Manic now as you would imagine, starting at 4 or 5 in the mornings. don't think it's possible to have any more slots as were picking 20,000 items a day in the store as opposed to a norm of probably 7 or 8,000.   Plus we don't have the vans to cover anymore slots, it's not like you could hire any old van to do the job.

As for keeping the shelves full it's impossible The store opened a 8 this morning to give us a chance, a lot of idiots were waiting outside before six!!!

Once in they had stripped the chilled section of Chicken, Mince and Pork within two hours.

Still feeling pretty protected now as the ****** maniacs come charging in as my  wife ordered me a box of latex gloves??

Oh I fully understand, I really do. All the best to you and stay safe. It’s easy to be sucked into the manic world that is food retail right now and exhaust yourself mentally and physically. 

Good point about the availability of the specialised delivery vans, I admit I know little about this service as I have never used it and don’t deal with it.  What’s the earliest/latest slots normally available, maybe these could be extended  an hour or two each end of the day, and have two shifts for drivers? Maybe if most people are off the roads the traffic situation will be much easier, making the runs quicker, so a couple more deliveries could be added each day?

As I said I don’t have the answers but if home delivery is to be relied on going forward it has to be reworked somehow. 

 

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12 minutes ago, RedM said:

Oh I fully understand, I really do. All the best to you and stay safe. It’s easy to be sucked into the manic world that is food retail right now and exhaust yourself mentally and physically. 

Good point about the availability of the specialised delivery vans, I admit I know little about this service as I have never used it and don’t deal with it.  What’s the earliest/latest slots normally available, maybe these could be extended  an hour or two each end of the day, and have two shifts for drivers? Maybe if most people are off the roads the traffic situation will be much easier, making the runs quicker, so a couple more deliveries could be added each day?

As I said I don’t have the answers but if home delivery is to be relied on going forward it has to be reworked somehow. 

 

The vans go out first at about 08.00 but it takes a while to scan and load all the tote box's of coarse. I think the 2nd shift of drivers are out to 21.30,22.00.

The main problem with getting stuff out much earlier  is that we would have to be picking through the night when all the isles are full of people stacking shelves and pallets everywhere witch makes it slow and difficult to get round.

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1 hour ago, Davefevs said:

I agree to an extent, but wish we’d started a week earlier.

Interesting how some people on social media were all:

”eff Coronavirus, I’m still going to Cheltenham, it’s all hysterical media exaggeration”

last week, and now they’ve been impacted by Coronavirus, either the illness itself, or school closures etc etc are now:

“stay indoors, don’t be selfish efftards”

Argghhhh.

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Had to take Mrs D to hospital this morning as she has an eye problem.  Went to collect her prescription from nearest Boots, which is in a small shopping area with a Sainsbury and Aldi.

Couldn't believe the number of families ( Mum, Dad and 2 children) out shopping together. Why can't one of the parents get whatever shopping they need and the other stay at home with the children.

I went to Aldi to pick up shopping we need. I tried to keep well away from other shoppers, but it seems that most are oblivious to trying to keep apart. When it came to check out, it didn't matter that I tried to keep a good distance from the person in front of me, the chap behind couldn't get any closer if he tried. The other thing I noticed was that Aldi had tills 1,2,3 & 4 open so it didn't matter if my queue kept 6 feet distance from the shopper in front and behind because  you were still about a foot from the person in the next queue. A bit of common sense by the store would have opened alternate tills to help keep more distance, although common sense is another commodity in short supply at the moment!

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1 hour ago, Davefevs said:

That is the concern...still too blasé (selfish) imho.  Last night’s pub openings wasn’t a final opportunity for a mass get together, it was just to give those businesses a small window to react.  I’m not gonna mention Tim Martin....arghhh (okay, I just did)!!

I’m sat here with a vulnerable child and as a result we are self-isolating as a family....for 12 weeks.

Why can’t (some) people see the seriousness of this?

[are you RedDave in disguise?]

All the best Dave I take a special needs 15 year old girl to Baytree School in Worle from Draycott. Last week her mother decided to keep her home as she has many underlying problems and we applauded that even though we would lose pay from Somerset CC. Baytree closed Wednesday and since the Government have now closed schools from yesterday, we will be paid while she is off, so the pressure on us financially  has been lifted somewhat but if we didnt get paid I had the option of Pension Credits.

People like yourself have massive respect from me because daily I see children who sadly are disabled and are vulnerable members of society.

Since this problem started getting worse we have witnessed selfish people who should hang their heads in shame because their little worlds have to change for a while ( how upsetting !!)

 

Best of luck mate and see you in 12 weeks at the other end, just as missus and I go to Corfu on hols ?

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25 minutes ago, stephenkibby. said:

The vans go out first at about 08.00 but it takes a while to scan and load all the tote box's of coarse. I think the 2nd shift of drivers are out to 21.30,22.00.

The main problem with getting stuff out much earlier  is that we would have to be picking through the night when all the isles are full of people stacking shelves and pallets everywhere witch makes it slow and difficult to get round.

Don’t think my plan will work then ? 

Also it’s the least of the concerns at this time but there is always someone who would complain about any additional noise made  out of normal hours.

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Death count

In January there was an increase of over 2900 deaths compared to jan 2019. 
9000 more deaths than December 

56000 deaths in January in total

 

looks like coronavirus has already claimed a few thousand in jan. I know there was no recorded cases but I don’t think there was testing was there?

So if the curve of deaths follow Italy and we lose 4000 in a month, there would be a lift of 8% on presumption that none of the 4000 would have died anyway


not sure what to feel about these figures. Your Thoughts?

 

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17 minutes ago, gl1 said:

Death count

In January there was an increase of over 2900 deaths compared to jan 2019. 
9000 more deaths than December 

56000 deaths in January in total

 

looks like coronavirus has already claimed a few thousand in jan. I know there was no recorded cases but I don’t think there was testing was there?

So if the curve of deaths follow Italy and we lose 4000 in a month, there would be a lift of 8% on presumption that none of the 4000 would have died anyway


not sure what to feel about these figures. Your Thoughts?

 

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It is interesting but I’d want to know how much that figure fluctuates from year to year. If it is higher than 2019 but comparable to previous years then it may mean nothing but if January 2020 was significantly higher than other recent years then it could be significant.

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5 minutes ago, And Its Smith said:

And UK still isn’t testing....incredibly people happy with BJ and gang 

Stop talking political bollocks. It’s so tiresome. They’re doing all they can and no different to what any other party could do in their position.

Can we leave out the politics? Had ******* 3 years of it...

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8 minutes ago, And Its Smith said:

And UK still isn’t testing....incredibly people happy with BJ and gang 

Last time I looked we were the 4th highest testing country in the World. We are also ramping up our testing and developing an antibody test to show who has already recovered.

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6 minutes ago, Lew-T said:

Stop talking political bollocks. It’s so tiresome. They’re doing all they can and no different to what any other party could do in their position.

Can we leave out the politics? Had ******* 3 years of it...

If they were doing all they can then I wouldn’t mention it would i.  More testing please Boris and gang. Unless they want people to get it I guess 

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