Ive noticed shoppers starting to become a little more aggressive

This isn’t quite the same but I work in a care home for the disabled - all are in wheelchairs and quite a few have had meltdowns over the past week. They have been isolating for 5 weeks now and just being told it’s at least another 3 has just tipped some over the edge.

Well Ive arrived home unscatheed today just one customer tutting about the next customer in line not standing exactly behind the black line.

But....what was different today for some unknown reason were lots of children in, various ages, in fact I thought had there been an announcement on the news that things had moved on.

Some seem to have two adults with them and it was like a family outing, I was quite surprised as people had been advised not! to bring children in, but then if your a single parent, need to shop, but no one to look after children then not a lot of choice. But we have had no children in at all this last few weeks. But today was a different story.

I'm just amazed that so many people are still going to the shops. Club together with neighbours and have shared deliveries - or at least click and collect. It's so much safer to keep away from other people!

I went into Tesco last week, all very orderly and (mostly) people inside the store were tolerant and kept their distance but there are always the odd few who think they can barge through anything or anyone. To my utter surprise when I was reaching up to get a couple of bottles of wine a young lad shopping with his girlfriend/wife leant right over me picked up the bottles and handed them to me ! I was so shocked I could only mutter thank you!! This probably wouldn’t have happened under normal circumstances! I’ve been living on edge since wondering if he’s infected me. Paranoia has definitely got the better of me!!

We are both over 70 with health issues, but not bad enough to shield. We tried the pensioner slot at our local Sainsburys once, and decided not to bother again: it was manic. We now shop after lunch and find full shelves, short queues, and exemplary behaviour. The manager says cheerfully that it is always more civilised later in the day. We have tried online, too, at Sainsbury's invitation, but gave up because so many ordered items don't arrive on the day as a result of stock problems.

Love the cat in the queue, Nona4ever - I saw that photo somewhere else and some wag put a caption along the lines of 'this shop asks that you do not send your cat out shopping for you', which made me laugh.
I've found that some people are obeying the rules and some are not. There's always the odd one, isn't there?

My friend, who has asthma and who has been hospitalised on some occasions during severe attacks, pointed out to a young man that he was not abiding by the arrow one-way system at the supermarket. He told her to fuck off and added that he would give her a slap. When she told a member of staff at the self-service area, she just shrugged her shoulders.

I think perhaps the stress of living under certain restrictions is getting to some people. That is understandable, but that sort of behaviour is not.

Personally, I haven't experienced this sort of rudeness. Most people I come across are very nice.

Fiachna I ended up putting in an online order to Boots because I'd heard they were restricting items. In fact when I went in for a prescription there apleared to be no restrictions at all!!

Very interesting to read your reminiscences Bijou

We really have nothing to complain about now do we?

When some greedy individuals were stripping the supermarket shelves bare a few weeks ago, there was talk about whether wartime type rationing should be brought back.

I remember my parents and grandparents talking about how little they could have during the war. I bet there was no problem with obesity then?!

At the age of nearly 97. I cannot go shopping but it brings back memories of what I experienced in the freezing winter of 1946 to 1947 in
London. Newly married, pregnant living in an attic room having to go to the basement for water. Rationing was worse than in wartime so every day was spent in the freezing cold queuing fora pound of potatoes, fish, small bag of coal, a pint of paraffin for the Primas stove, off ration offal, and meagre rations plus the fear of catching flu.
My husband and I served in the Forces for this.
I feel lucky now in a warm comfortable home with food to put on the table.

Our local Boots is doing Pharmacy,medicines and baby things only. I was told for vitamins etc I was to go to the supermarket. I think it would have been better if I could have bought my usual items in Boots to save me going to the supermarket. Do any of you agree, or am I wrong? Its just some things I used to buy in Boots would save me going to the supermarket.

It's inevitable of course, people are stressed and scared. I expect most of us have had a blow up somewhere along the line, I know I have. Even my husband who is the most tolerant person has been tetchy and irritable at times.
We can at least go for a local walk here in France and shopping at the nearest supermarket as there are no home deliveries.

I think it's because people are really frightened

Thanks to younger kind neighbours and some Sainsbury deliveries, we've managed to avoid supermarkets. We did stock up for Brexit and more recently before lockdown.
I do think it's sensible, if you can, to get younger people to help out. Ours, with two teenage boys, seem happy to do our shopping.

I have shopped at Aldi and Tesco,both with short queues outside where everyone was patient and keeping their distance. Once in store though,a different matter,people coming up behind,stretching over to reach things and totally ignoring the one way system in Tesco. I'm in a mobility scooter so cannot just step away from people too close. In Aldi,waiting in the proper space at the tills,a lady stepped in between me and the person in front. I told her I was in the queue and that we had to space out. She just said "Oh!" but she did move behind me.
I saw a post on Instagram with a funny poster saying "If someone is close enough to punch in the face,punch them in the face." Oh,how I felt like doing so - not that it would have hurt them much with my weak wrists!

i think everybody is getting a bit fractiuos at waiting in a queue to get in a shop,.i see a queue at sainsbury's the other day. i cant stand for long and asked for a chair to sit on while i waited .only to be told you not old enough or disabled. i told them disability is not always visible.told them i have injections in my spine to keep me going. sadly i havent had this last lot because of the virus. i'm not complaining about hospitals and surgery but about sainsbury's not being understanding .i cannot stand in a queue for more than 10 minutes. lidl were better and offered me a stool...

I tend to agree with the comment that maybe it’s inevitable that impatience will set in now people possibly think the ‘novelty’ has worn off.

I try to keep telling myself how lucky we are in this country to not have the stricter lockdown inflicted on Italy and Spain.

We can go out for a walk or to a supermarket whenever we want, so when I need to do a food shop I try to enjoy the outing.

The poor souls in some European countries have been stuck inside their little flats for weeks. How they would love to pop to a food shop, even with a few arguments going on.

When I asked my husband who shops for me if he thought the shoppers were getting aggressive he said No not in tescos, all keeping safe distance, checkout assistants are as lovely as they always were, no one showing signs of stress, if they feel it they are keeping it under wraps, not like the other week when a couple decided to barge in,

Someone was arguing with the security officer in my Sainsbury’s last week. They couldn’t seem to understand that only ONE person can come in at a time with basket or trolley. These were a young couple with a baby in a buggy. In the end, the officer said for one of them to get a basket or trolley of their own, but they mustn’t walk round together. Of course....they did walk together once out of sight. I have found shopping as good as it could be up to now. Maybe it’s because it was a Saturday instead of my usual Friday. That’s obviously idiots day!!?

Went to Asda on Saturday and there was a shorter queue than the previous two weeks. People mostly obeying the directional signs and social distancing. Had to go to Tesco this morning, to get a couple of things Asda didn't have, and it was ok. However, there was a member of staff stacking the bread aisle, and she ignored social distancing by pushing passed to get to the cage. She would only have needed to wait 10 seconds for me to be passed the cage and out of her way, as I was already moving passed the cage before she came towards it.

There again, there was one old boy hovering over tins of baked beans - did he not know that we're supposed to go in, shop and go straight out again without browsing?

This person might have learning difficulties or might have mild brain damage from TIA's or similar. It is easy to look at people and see they are not doing what they "should" be doing, it isn't always obvious if they have a hidden disability.

Our local Tesco express is very organised and courteous to customers. However quite rightly we have to wait to be called into the store from the queue outside. I was next due in but the staff member on the door was temporarily called away so I waited to be called in, even though in the meantime another customer left the store. The young woman in the queue behind me (who had also not been keeping her distance behind me), then got very strident with me for not going in. I'm afraid I responded in kind. I never enjoyed food shopping before as it was, I now absolutely dread going because of the whole experience - queuing (and in the rain on Saturday), being unable to double back for items I've missed, unable to stop and compare prices (my usual shopping bill has soared), and the dread that I'm upsetting those behind me if I'm not shopping fast enough. I'm not surprised people lose patience with each other.

It might be that it is all so very well organised but our Sainsbury's is fine. Queuing is well organised & they work on a one out- one in basis when you get to the door. No problem at all & shelves are filled. I use the scanning device so no need to queue. The staff are cheerful & plenty of them.
I have had no trouble at all.

I got quite a shock last week when I went into a shop and a man (older, again) at least 3 metres away from me down the aisle shouted at me "Don't come any closer!"

War happens and we have to change our ways. It's not a novelty it's crisis a matter of live and death. Get real everybody. And pray we get out of it. We put up with the privations of the last war for 5 years and got out of it.