Lockdown - essential shopping?

Justwokeup
so much of this doesn't make the slightest bit of sense
That's why people are doing their own thing ?

Sorry you lost your job must be a big worry for you .hope your circumstances change soon?

Message should say Taliya .

It is ridiculous on small businesses. Lovely young woman near me started up beauty shop. She has to close, despite all sanitising, only one client in at a time. Local dentist, opticians, open. Same covid safety, proximity to client.
I reckon they wanted to shut down pubs because 10pm curfew wasn’t working. And the small businesses are, as they say, collateral damage.

I think it’s all very confusing. I thought that garden centres were allowed to open as their stock of garden plants etc will deteriorate or die if not sold. Def not so for all the other things they sell. I suppose you could apply the same argument for barrels of beer! I don’t go to shops except food related or the chemist for medications. Haven’t done any other shopping since March that wasn’t online. Not ideal I know. Desperately trying to support small local businesses.

In England it is perfectly permissable for shops to sell any other items they sell - so long as they also sell essential items. Cannot see the problem some seem to have with this - its exactly the same as the earlier lockdown that started in late March, at least so far as England is concerned. The Welsh approach appears to be pure idiocy and is attracting alot of criticism.

Calendargirl

A sewing and crafts shop is open in our town. I’ve no objection to this personally, but essential - not really.

For many people, the ability of expressing themselves via their creativity is an extremely important part of maintaining their 'Mental Well-being'.

I knitted and crocheted my way throughout the first Lockdown - and was delighted when my local shop re-opened. It's now closed down again, so I'm back to having to buy via Online. It's not actually too much hassle, but it just means that I've got to wait about 4 days for the delivery.

There are far more shops open now than there were in the first lockdown.

I will wait for our local shops to open. Some are able to do click and collect by prior appointment but not many. I do not intend to give my money to the big boys unless I can’t get it locally.

It seems that this second lockdown is totally breaking down. In our town and yesterday, hight street cafes were open and serving inside despite only really being allowed to serve takeaways. Two mobile phone shops were open along with several other small traders making it that anyone out shopping could buy almost anything.

In work last night pubs in the local area that are open "via the back door" were being talked about and named. So, in my area, this is now a lockdown in name only and what that will do to the infection rate anyone can only guess at.

That said "I am working at present for the worlds largest online retailer in one of their huge distribution centres as what they call a shunter moving hgv vehicles on and off the loading docks. This week the centre has passed the highest throughput totals it has ever achieved with six weeks still to go until Christmas. We all received a letter of thanks on arrival for the night shift last night which did make us feel we are not undervalued by the management.

One thousand four hundred of us work at the centre with many more employees required which cannot be recruited. It would seem that many of the newly unemployed that are continuously moaning on tv do not wish to do manual work and get their hands dirty.

However, less said on that by me the better or my posts will be getting deleted.