Coronavirus outbreak

[SpokeyDokey]

Quite surprising. I do wonder how, down the line, they will recoup all this money.

Austerity 2 ?

 

[Joey Shabadoo]

Extraordinary what? Fart, long sentence, behaviour, saxophone solo?

£300 billion of support

 

[vickster]

Quite surprising. I do wonder how, down the line, they will recoup all this money.

Tax?

 

[randynewmanscat]

My Mrs was due to fly to England on Wednesday, flight cancelled so she changed the booking to next Sunday, all good. I mainly avoided the news yesterday so missed an important announcement until this morning. I need to print off a form and tick the box for my reason for being "at large" and I need to date it so one form a trip. Ferrying my Mrs to Limoges so that she can get some business done in the UK is not listed, its life and death stuff only.
https://www.gouvernement.fr/sites/d...03/attestation_de_deplacement_derogatoire.pdf

 

[marinyork]

Having never worked in a supermarket I don’t know if this thought is workable or not, so feel free to adjust it or shoot me down in flames.

Gather all the highly sought-after essentials that people are panic buying into a couple of roped off aisles. Customers don’t get to wander up and fill their trolleys but instead a staff member(s) will retrieve the permitted quantity and hand it over. Customer continues with remainder of shopping duties.

It’s by no means foolproof but could it be made to work? It would just be going back to the old days when the shop assistant got you everything on your list while you waited.

This happens with turkeys and fireworks. It's extremely problematic. My fear would genuinely be a riot or assault having seen how people behave. You would need two security guards there I reckon based on patterns in stores.

 

[Fab Foodie]

£300 billion of support

Remind me.... How much did we spaff into the channel over Brexit?

 

[Mugshot]

This happens with turkeys and fireworks. It's extremely problematic. My fear would genuinely be a riot or assault having seen how people behave. You would need two security guards there I reckon based on patterns in stores.

Yes, the idea itself is sound, the issue is the customer, who of course are the issue to start with. Retail staff are simply not paid enough for the abuse, physical intimidation and likely assault they would suffer.

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

Quite surprising. I do wonder how, down the line, they will recoup all this money.

It's nearly all loans, repayable with interest. No idea what rate though.

 

[midlife]

Quite surprising. I do wonder how, down the line, they will recoup all this money.

I thought they were mostly low interest loans with repayments starting in 6 months?

 

[MontyVeda]

Having never worked in a supermarket I don’t know if this thought is workable or not, so feel free to adjust it or shoot me down in flames.

Gather all the highly sought-after essentials that people are panic buying into a couple of roped off aisles. Customers don’t get to wander up and fill their trolleys but instead a staff member(s) will retrieve the permitted quantity and hand it over. Customer continues with remainder of shopping duties.

It’s by no means foolproof but could it be made to work? It would just be going back to the old days when the shop assistant got you everything on your list while you waited.

It's a lot easier to just police purchases at the tills then rearrange a supermarket and rope off an aisle.

In Aldi we're limiting purchases to no more than 4 of any one item. I work the shop floor rather than the tills and anyone I see with more than four of something I explain the situation and take the surplus back to where it belongs. The till staff are also putting the surplus to one side. No one's got overly shirty with us yet (to my knowledge), but they often come out with a feeble excuse as to why they need more than four, at which point, we apologise, explain the situation and reassert the 'no more than four' rule.

 

[Adam4868]

Wasnt really that good though was it ? Loans....at what cost ? What's the point of loans when you have no customers or business,Have they ever heard of self employed ? Are these loans just for companys? What about the workers having to find rent and get by with no work ?

 

[SpokeyDokey]

Rate of infection slowing in Italy (BBC News 18.25 today):

Italy death toll jumps, but rate of infections slows

The latest figures from Italy, Europe's worst-hit country, report a further 345 deaths in the past 24 hours. It's an increase of 16%.
The virus has now killed 2,503 people there - 2,060 people are in intensive care, from among a total of 31,506 cases, up from 27,980. However, this was the slowest rate of increase since Italy identified the presence of the virus.

 

[Pale Rider]

Pleased to hear of the efforts of supermarkets to ration items.

Although allowing someone to only purchase a little more then they could possibly need is hardly 'rationing' in the way someone with wartime experience would understand it.

A woman in the chemist queue said to me there's 'nowt' in Morrisons and a couple of other supermarkets she tried.

When pressed, it appeared she meant some items were out of stock.

This type of exaggerated gossip over shortages only makes matters worse.

I nipped into a Spar shop after the chemist, and stock levels seemed normal.

Not much bread left, but I've seen that before.

Once again, I didn't think to check for toilet roll because I don't need any.

Must be all those pain killers from the chemist making my existing stock last a long time.

 

[glasgowcyclist]

Tax?

Yes. Will it be scraped back from those on lower pay or will they take the opportunity to tax the very wealthy a little more?

 

[vickster]

Yes. Will it be scraped back from those on lower pay or will they take the opportunity to tax the very wealthy a little more?

No idea