Supermarket's early opening times for pensioners

General_Grant

". . . We want to do all we can to support this effort and so have made the decision that on Friday 20th March, from store opening until 9am, we are going to make our larger stores available for those vulnerable people – and those caring for them, to let them shop and get what they need. 
 

"So – if you're in a vulnerable group and need to get your shopping – or are caring for someone in a vulnerable group, we'll do everything we can to support you in stores on Friday morning before 9am.  . . .. "

This just relies on people's honesty.  How do you know that a 20-y-o is someone doing a good deed for someone in a vulnerable group - or someone really vulnerable (underlying health condition) who isn't over whatever age is considered old (bus pass?)

 

Ken68

Bus passes can now be used before the usual 9.30am in my area and first bus into town is 9am.

billy2shots

General_Grant said:

". . . We want to do all we can to support this effort and so have made the decision that on Friday 20th March, from store opening until 9am, we are going to make our larger stores available for those vulnerable people – and those caring for them, to let them shop and get what they need. 
 

"So – if you're in a vulnerable group and need to get your shopping – or are caring for someone in a vulnerable group, we'll do everything we can to support you in stores on Friday morning before 9am.  . . .. "

This just relies on people's honesty.  How do you know that a 20-y-o is someone doing a good deed for someone in a vulnerable group - or someone really vulnerable (underlying health condition) who isn't over whatever age is considered old (bus pass?)

 

As the registered manager of a Residential Care Home I took my CQC registration certificate. Thankfully after speaking with 3 or 4 security and store staff I was allowed in. Only a temporary fix as 3 items of the same product doesn’t go very far when shopping for 16. I will be braving the shops 3 times a week at this rate just for work. 

I’ve begged my local councils to get us and those like us some form of ID that allows us to buy more and even get fuel or travel in case of a total lockdown. So far nothing!

redfox

Aldi now allow over 70s and the vulnerable into their stores ½ before opening.

https://www.aldi.co.uk/covid19

Steve_L

We elderly & vulnerable seem to have been "flavour of the week" for the first week. It's now NHS workers. For our last shop at ASDA before our first home delivery slot, the store had, locally and despite what it now didn't say on the website, amalgamated us with the advertised NHS workers "happy hour". However, the practical upshot of this was that they ended up with the most potentially vulnerable and the most potentially infected people in the same building at the same time.

Steve_L

At a recent queuing session at Tesco, they called for any over-65's to come forward, When I was asked why I hadn't, I advised them that, being born in June 1955, I was, like a geriatric Adrian Mole, only 64¾. No-one objected to making a small exception for me. Honesty always pays.