Are you gambling on a slot?

Yes, domestic violence, gambling and harmful drinking are all on the rise since the onset of the virus.

It's easy to see why, but all will add to the suffering of those around them.

Obviously recent news is all about the virus but gambling including slots is up there with drink and drug addiction.
Many suicides.
One doesn't need to know anyone who has a habit, to be aware of the problem.

Made me smileKittyLester about stocking up in case you don’t get another slot, I am doing exactly the same! Suddenly realised I was thinking of getting a ’ spare’ in case the spare I had runs out? Managed to rein myself in a bit.

Many people are slot machine addicts
Really?
I don’t know any

It took me 9 weeks to obtain a supermarket delivery, when it arrived it had no bread, milk, cooked meat, fresh meat or fresh vegetables. No toilet rolls and only one bottled water.
Two pensioners in their mid 70s one with cancer, one recovering, no family close enough to help.

The pun was gambling on slots.
Many people are slot machine addicts. ?

I was surfing the supermarket websites this morning (7.30am) and managed to get a Morrisons delivery for three weeks time.....yippee!!!

Hetty58
I was assuming people had their own transport, apologies.

'Never assume anything'
Living where we do, not having a car would be extremely difficult.

I can see slots on my laptop that aren’t there on my phone, even though I am logged into both. I don’t know why, as ordinarily I use either or both for ordering.

Sainsbury’s don’t release more than one slot a week, and as far as I know (although I am not listed as vulnerable) don’t allow recurring ones either- you can’t book a slot if there is an undelivered one waiting.

I think that’s fair enough really. If some people are unable to get slots for weeks ahead, if doesn’t seem right that others have them booked up into the future.

Having said that, availability obviously varies from area to area, so if someone is able to get a slot after six days instead of seven, that presumably means that it was spare. Either having two slots in a rolling week is ‘allowed’, or the software wouldn’t free it up.

I couldn’t live as hidebound by rules as some people. That is something I have learned from all of this. I will never crave moral superiority enough to waste headspace by nit-picking over someone else’s interpretation of a recommendation.

My understanding is that anyone over 70 should stay at home as much as possible regardless of underlining health conditions as one's immunity reduces with age.

When I eventually managed to get back on the Sainsbury's website, having messed up my password, I was offered slots on the basis of my age. As I said above, I can see lots of slots but DD1 can't! I can only imagine I gave my details when I first signed up for Nectar card as I dont think I have ever had a home delivery.

I too missed the pun.

Seen on Tesco website today.

We have become Asda shoppers. We never were before but were unable to get a delivery or Click and Collect from any other store. We now order our groceries on Click and Collect at Asda where we were able to get a slot. Our son picks it up and brings it to us. We tag my elderly mother’s shopping on to ours and take it round to her sheltered apartment after cleaning it for her. We are not over 70, in fact both 67, but we both take high blood pressure tablets and additionally I have asthma for which I use a high dose steroid inhaler. We stay away from other people, although we do exercise, just by walking in the local area. I miss my little trips to Waitrose, the M+S foodhall, and Lidl, and being able to choose what to buy according to what I see on the day, but it is a small price to pay for keeping ourselves as safe as we can.

Callistemon

'Why can you not to to the supermarket if you are fit and able to go out for exercise'

Many of us can exercise, walk for many miles a day even, but simply can't carry weights without pain and difficulty.

I have had an online delivery every two weeks from Tesco ever since they first started delivering. But I cannot get a delivery date anymore. I am not on any "vulnerable list" being aged 63 but I have very poor mobility doe to arthritis and have a blue badge for parking.,

I've tried staying up,until midnight as I was told that's when they release new slots to no avail. Sainsburys and Morrisins are not accepting new customers. So I now have to go to the shops despite the problems I have with walking, I often cry with exhaustion and pain by the time I've got back to my car.

So to see my neighbours, who have never had deliveries before, having at least two a week does make me a little frustrated. They will be in the vulnerable category but there does not seem to be a limit on the number of deliveries, at least not with Tesco.

Now now MawB
You are going to extremes.
You know perfectly well that my run is my allowed exercise and I went to the local farm shop to pick up pre-ordered food on the horse and that was only the second time since Covid-19 reared it's ugly head.
If you want to be picky, why not get some of the youngsters off the streets, out of the parks and off the beaches and berate them, not me. I run at 05.15 when most of you are turning over and there are empty tow paths.

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Just 3 of many.

Silly or not, I don’t like seeing kind, gentle people being picked on or vilified for some perceived misdemeanour.
Especially by someone who has no compunction about a run in the morning followed riding in the afternoon.

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MawB
I think you're being a bit silly.
I, unlike some others, do not know it want to know the medical history and family situation of every GN member. I was reiterating what is on many supermarket websites.
Why you are so concerned about my post to another member, I really cannot guess but there I shall leave it.

I always take information from the media with a degree of scepticism.

Oh indeed. I too prefer facts. I can only go with the info dished out daily by all media outlets.
Even guidelines are never wholly adhered to by some.

The Telegraph's science expert is one.

Well Sainsbury's have me down as having priority access to slots although I have not registered as such nor with the government website.
The only time I ever signed up for a delivery from Sainsbury's was almost 10 years ago, just the once.
When this virus happened and people cleared the shelves, I went onto their website to try and get a delivery.
My email was recognised and previous password auto filled and it just went on from there. The mobile number they asked for I have had for 29 years and that too was recognised along with my nectar number.

Yippee

Please tell me how to take charge of this autocorrect