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They should lock away the trollies and baskets because they are possible transmitters of the virus. We have been taking our own bags into local shops for a while now. Not going into supermarkets.

You seem to have quoted yourself rather than me. However, as you ask, I have always believed that business should be regulated to ensure it pays its full cost. Supermarkets (and clothes, electronics) have for years forced costs and prices downwards in pursuit of market share. Farmers are amongst...

Don’t believe what you read in the media or from certain people on the internet. There are times when supermarkets run short because they do not carry enough stock. At other times they are fine and local shops (with different supply chains) seem well stocked.

How is haranguing people on the internet working out for you in keeping our shops stocked ? I Have two weeks of food that can be stretched to three if rationed. If that breaks the just in time stocking system then perhaps you need to be taking your head out of the sand to ask questions about our...

I am quite happy for supermarkets to pay the extra cost of warehousing. Their policy of recent decades has been to operate without the insurance policy of holding stock. Lots of consequence to this eg using their buying power to undermine business for local shops. It is interesting that small...

There was and is a crisis. People face being isolated for months. Consumers were always going to move away from just in time buying as that is the ratonal reaction to crisis. In the past this would not have mattered because supermarkets would have held enough stock. Their greed has left the...

https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/coronavirus-rationing-food-fruit-vegetables-france-spain-supermarkets-a9418446.html%3famp As mentioned earlier in the thread, the problem here is the just in time stock system pursued by the supermarkets in order to cut costs...

Just shows how (over ?) populated Sussex has become. These bottlenecks you are experiencing just aren’t happening up here to anything like the same extent.

Let’s hope the bars and restaurants are still in business when you are able to attempt to redeem your vouchers. It’s a great idea though and I would happily do the same if available over here.

As long as you throw them away. It’s worthwhile using the disposable plastic gloves at petrol stations when you fill up your car.

Wouldn’t have thought so. I heard people had panic bought the lot.

Sausage, cheese, Arctic ?

Agreed.

In case one of my wife or I self isolated at the beginning of week 1 then the other subsequently develops a temperature. I am using my common sense and not relying on the current version of ever changing Government advice. My view is that two weeks is actually insufficient because if we have any...

Under the current system, yes. Maybe this will be the wake up call to Governments to regulate to cut the pressures to reduce costs and incentivise away from managing productivity as priority.

I am against businesses not assuming the full cost of their business and that includes the probability of supply disruption. Just in time supply chains are an example of the fragility of such modern business practices, where society is left to bare the cost as opposed to the business. Of course...

I have bought two weeks extra supplies of non perishable food. I buy more than that every Christmas and Easter. What I have bought is woefully insufficient if the country enters lockdown and my wife and I contract the virus. Clearly you just enjoy insulting people.

Perhaps you are ignorant of the debate currently being had in the business world about the folly of just in time supply chains. They have been designed to maximize short term profits and bolster share prices in the obsession with productivity. I have been taking part in that debate. I am...

Nice. You don’t need hand sanitizer. It is not the only way to keep germs away. I also do not have any hand sanitizer but don’t feel the need to tell people to F off. Good luck to you and your wife.

Of course there is. However you and others have not been making that distinction. Reselling on EBay should be illegal. No dispute about that. However, there have been posts on NSC condemning families for having full shopping trolleys. When people are finding a new outlet for their anger issues...