[News] This is getting ridiculous....

Cheshire Cat · Oct 22, 2020

BBC News - Wales lockdown: Supermarkets told to sell only essential items
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-politics-54648194

Since when were things like clothes not essential ?

Washie · Oct 22, 2020

Cheshire Cat said:
BBC News - Wales lockdown: Supermarkets told to sell only essential items
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-politics-54648194

Since when were things like clothes not essential ?

You only need a t shirt and trousers to go to the shops

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beorhthelm · Oct 22, 2020

gone mad with power.

n1 gull · Oct 22, 2020

beorhthelm said:
gone mad with power.

Yep enough is enough now

Weststander · Oct 22, 2020

Silly imho, a nanny and micromanaging step too far.

Interestingly in the Lockdown here some food stores closed their clothes area whilst others such as Sainsbury’s kept theirs open. Which was useful for us.

FatSuperman · Oct 22, 2020

Weststander said:
Silly imho, a nanny and micromanaging step too far.

Interestingly in the Lockdown here some food stores closed their clothes area whilst others such as Sainsbury’s kept theirs open. Which was useful for us.

Useful for Sainsbury's as well. Not so much fun for clothing retailers :|

albionfan37 · Oct 22, 2020

Washie said:
You only need a t shirt and trousers to go to the shops

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Up here the women only need their pjs

GT49er · Oct 22, 2020

Cheshire Cat said:
BBC News - Wales lockdown: Supermarkets told to sell only essential items
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-politics-54648194

Since when were things like clothes not essential ?

If you want to go out, yes they are.

If you haven't got any clothes, or didn't have any before lockdown, you're almost certainly a tw@t.

drew · Oct 22, 2020

Makes sense to me. Should also stop non essential home deliveries so all these ****ing white vans can stop buzzing around.

People bang on about the lockdown in March but it was hardly a lockdown. Sort of 'stay at home please but if you want to go that's ok'.

Lockdown for the diseases incubation period (except emergency services) and we'll put the virus back a few weeks.

Milano · Oct 22, 2020

beorhthelm said:
gone mad with power.

I predicted this back in the summer. Some of these civil servants have waited decades for this opportunity, complete power over the people, they are not going to give it up easily or quickly.

LlcoolJ · Oct 22, 2020

drew said:
Makes sense to me. Should also stop non essential home deliveries so all these ****ing white vans can stop buzzing around.

People bang on about the lockdown in March but it was hardly a lockdown. Sort of 'stay at home please but if you want to go that's ok'.

Lockdown for the diseases incubation period (except emergency services) and we'll put the virus back a few weeks.

Put it back a few weeks, and then what happens? It's still there.

Thunder Bolt · Oct 22, 2020

People try clothes on, generally. I bought a couple of items from M&S in August but the changing rooms were closed, so I had to try them on at home.
I was told if I wanted to change the items to bring them back, where they would be sent off to be sprayed, Fortunately the items fitted.

I bought new glasses for driving last week, following a cataract operation, and whilst at the opticians, I had to put each pair I tried on into a Perspex box, not back on the rack. They were also wiped with a sterilising cloth.

Most people have enough clothes to get through a few months until this is under control. Children’s clothes are essential because of growth spurts.

Justice · Oct 22, 2020

My local Waitrose have starting a queueing system again not even in lockdown ffs. Another gripe once your in the shop morons are all over you can’t wait a few seconds for others to leave a section, humanity has well and truly left the building.

drew · Oct 22, 2020

LlcoolJ said:
Put it back a few weeks, and then what happens? It's still there.

Circuit breaker for two weeks, back to business for the next couple of months and then another two week circuit breaker and so until we get the vaccine. If I was a businessman then I'd rather a two week proper lockdown if I know after that I can open again.

Figures are going up, look at how the number of critical/serious patients there and how that has risen. What's the alternative, go about our business and some around us die until we get the vaccine.

There are those that say we should 'shield' the vulnerable so everyone else can get on with their lives but by shield they actually mean lock them away. Is that really what people want to see? We could be locking them down for a very long time until a vaccine is available.

drew · Oct 22, 2020

Thunder Bolt said:
People try clothes on, generally. I bought a couple of items from M&S in August but the changing rooms were closed, so I had to try them on at home.
I was told if I wanted to change the items to bring them back, where they would be sent off to be sprayed, Fortunately the items fitted.

I bought new glasses for driving last week, following a cataract operation, and whilst at the opticians, I had to put each pair I tried on into a Perspex box, not back on the rack. They were also wiped with a sterilising cloth.

Most people have enough clothes to get through a few months until this is under control. Children’s clothes are essential because of growth spurts.

Precisely, beggars belief that people are jumping on their human rights soap box just because they won't be able to buy some extra clothes for a few weeks!!!

Invicta · Oct 22, 2020

A pre Christmas bonus for Amazon, claw back the small amount they had lost to actual shops in Wales.

LlcoolJ · Oct 22, 2020

Thunder Bolt said:
People try clothes on, generally. I bought a couple of items from M&S in August but the changing rooms were closed, so I had to try them on at home.
I was told if I wanted to change the items to bring them back, where they would be sent off to be sprayed, Fortunately the items fitted.

I bought new glasses for driving last week, following a cataract operation, and whilst at the opticians, I had to put each pair I tried on into a Perspex box, not back on the rack. They were also wiped with a sterilising cloth.

Most people have enough clothes to get through a few months until this is under control. Children’s clothes are essential because of growth spurts.

It's all just stupid isn't it.

Just before the first total lockdown I went to Meadowhall (the enormous shopping centre just outside of Sheffield) as I had some vouchers to spend.

They had a very sensible one way system in place and the whole thing seemed to work really well.

I went to buy a pair of shoes and was allowed to try them on etc, no problem.

Then I went to buy a pair of sunglasses and after three members of staff had a discussion, they decided that I couldn't try them on but I could buy them and then bring them back

So I said "Ok, so if I pay for them, walk back over to the mirror and decide that they don't suit me, I can go straight back to the counter and get my money back? And I can do this with any pair?"

More conversation and then "Yes, that's fine".

Fortunately they were perfect, but what complete madness.

Weststander · Oct 22, 2020

FatSuperman said:
Useful for Sainsbury's as well. Not so much fun for clothing retailers :|

Not haute couture, clothes can be essentials.

Preventing people getting underwear or fleeces at supermarkets, won’t aid specialist high street clothes retailers.

Clothes retailers of any size also sell online (except Primark), so have that avenue.

Birdie Boy · Oct 22, 2020

Clearly, as per the government nobody thinks before putting these rules in place. Surely, this is meant for people like the 2 women in tescos yesterday loading the 1 trolley up with 4 x 18 rolls of loo roll...

Weststander · Oct 22, 2020

drew said:
Circuit breaker for two weeks, back to business for the next couple of months and then another two week circuit breaker and so until we get the vaccine. If I was a businessman then I'd rather a two week proper lockdown if I know after that I can open again.

Figures are going up, look at how the number of critical/serious patients there and how that has risen. What's the alternative, go about our business and some around us die until we get the vaccine.

There are those that say we should 'shield' the vulnerable so everyone else can get on with their lives but by shield they actually mean lock them away. Is that really what people want to see? We could be locking them down for a very long time until a vaccine is available.

Like everything at this stage, it’s all guesswork. There’s no evidence yet that a two week circuit breaker will give two winter months of relative normality in Wales with low epidemic metrics and a fully opened up, vibrant economy.

We’ll soon find out.

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