Non essential shops opening - will you rush to buy?

Apart from the odd late night supermarket shop to pick up odds and ends, can't be bothered with all the queueing, thank goodness for online shopping!!

Online shopping for me. I'm doing without any new clothes or shoes.

A very useful post Dorsetcup thank you. I too recommend Iceland, not my usual supermarket but they did come up with the goods when nobody else would!

Due to health issues I find standing for very long extremely difficult and if I can’t sit down get very very dizzy so the queueing system is the worse thing for me. I will have to avoid shops because of this both small and large. I wonder how many others also struggle with this and with the extended walks to shops because of parking issues now everyone is using their cars?

A BIG NO!
I'm happily cured of my shopping habit.

I need a couple of birthday cards am hoping card factory will be reopening. Tried local shops but nothing suitable. Apart from that need my glasses mending as lens has fallen out but they are only doing emergency appointments at the moment.

I want to support my local shops and went and did so yesterday. All following distancing rules, hand sanitiser, screens, etc. We need to start catching up with the 20% drop in the economy with those that can afford it and feel safe in most shops.

HHBBNN54 When I needed a birthday card for my granddaughter recently, I used www.moonpig.com and they will send it direct so you don't even have to go out to post it.

I am fortunate to live within 5 minutes walk from our small town centre which has a good selection of shops including Debenhams so I shall go shopping but be very careful and only do so when it is quiet. Saturday would be a big no as it is always busy then.
However do not fancy buying clothes without trying them on so I think shops will have a problem getting customers to buy

I am 10 mins uphill to the town centre - would love to go but don't fancy the bus, and car parks could be a problem. Could walk but breathing bad and would need a rest when I got there (cuppa would be good) and then would have to go to toilet - that's me scuppered, it will be a while before I go to town!!

I`m more worried now than ever about Covid so i will NOT be going to any shops other than food outlets.
It`s going to be crazy out there.

Blue Sky I must disagree with what you say. I am reasonably computer literate and where I live it is nearly impossible to get food deliveries online despite the fact my husband and I are in our 70s. Anything but food I have bought online. This week I actually managed to get a very very late slot at Tesco. Not somewhere I would normally shop. I gave it a go. I received full fat items rather than low fat which I had ordered. As for the disgusting long past use vegetables they sent. I would not even feed them to our chickens. We live in a very rural area so it is not easy for everyone.

I intend to carry on with online shopping and won't be going into any shops until I actually have to. At least for a couple more months or until I judge it safer.

Can't read through all the missives so I may have lost the thread
.... but I was informed last week that I shall have to spend another 12 weeks in lockdown
.... AND I cannot confirm a supermarket delivery slot being also computer semi-literate
Fortunately my newly discovered neighbours are being most helpful and are able to deliver some shopping.

My health did not stabililise by having no appropriate medical contact. I tried with 111 and an ambulance arrived within seconds to take me to a hospital where there was no relevent department/ staff. I was told I should have gone else where. As I had only phoned originally for some oral advice about drug dosage it did not seem like the best use of time and resources and I had had no choice in the destination
Shopping tomorrow is the last thing on my mind

We don't have shops opening here yet but have found I can get everything I need online thankfully. Local shops also do postal service so that has sorted presents out. I needed toys and got them online from John Lewis along with a selection of cards. When I heard garden centres were opening I thought that may be nice but then realised I was thinking of the previous type of garden centre visit not the one with social distancing and hand sanitiser. So I had a virtual tour round a centre in my mind instead! I had managed to get plants delivered from a local company too so didn't need anything. I don't see me going out to shops until the virus is eradicated or we have a vaccine. I saw a survey which said that 1 in 5 people in England said they would not be in a clothes shop again! No wonder Boris is going to try to persuade folk to go to help the economy. However he must think we have short memories as he was shaking hand with people saying it was ok as long as we washed our hands and then ended up at deaths door.

I went to the market to buy plants for oirs yesterday It wasn't busy at all. I won't be rushing anywhere actually. I will continue click and collect for groceries. I detest shopping...

Cass please read Dorsetcupcake's post. She has a lot of useful information for people who have difficulties in getting delivery slots.

Craftycat. I have the same mindset as you. After reading about all the mayhem of people trying to get supermarket deliveries,I just couldn’t be bothered trying. I have never used the system, anyway, preferring to choose my own food directly.

I always keep a good stock of food, and at first my DD and GD brought me milk, fresh food etc. Once the shops were better organised I started to do my own weekly shop, and feel perfectly safe doing so.

I now also shop in our local weekly market, which is gradually filling up with stalls again. It was good to stock up on reasonably-priced bedding plants again. I bought myself a pair of nice slippers, too, last week. Once the local shops reopen I will do as much of my shopping as possible with them. The supermarkets have had the monopoly for too long. Our small local businesses need all the help that they can get, and most of my shopping will be done in them.

Of course I will assess their safety systems, but we need to do all that we can to save our High Streets. I am fit and healthy, at 80, and am looking forward to seeing all our little shops open again.

No. Although I do need some new t shirts. I'll get them when I go to supermarket for. Weekly shopping.

Thankfull for online shopping over the past months so no need to rush out and do a personal shop.Must admit lockdown has given me a chance to do jobs around the house and garden that would have gone on my list of 'must do' had I been able to personally shop.

only place i want to go and thats to have my hair cut......

I won't be going out but would love to get to my favourite butcher instead of ordering supermarket meat. Haven't had much difficulty getting Tesco Click & Collect slots and now its very easy. The quality of the food is usually as good as I would choose, so no real complaints.
Happily cured of my clothes shopping habits, anything I need/want can be got at a good price online, although I do have a couple of returns to make - when I pluck up courage to go to the Post Van.

Despite all the advice on here and elsewhere I haven’t managed to get a delivery slot since the beginning of lockdown and one click and collect from ASDA meant I had to go into the store to return so many short or ones the days items that I gave up. I’ll be visiting the local supermarket as usual. M&S has been managed really well -I’ve been there on two visits to town-once to pick up medication which hadn’t been delivered and once for Specsavers and the bank when our online banking refused to accept a cheque. I won’t be rushing in tomorrow, but on Tuesday . . . I can hardly wait. I’ll be there with a mask, sanitizer and wipes!

I agree with some of the posts about food shopping. I quite enjoyed it until the virus. Now I just queue and get in and out ASAP. I also shop for my 98 year old mum and my elderly neighbour. I’ve used online shopping in the past (when my back goes into spasm and I can’t walk, let alone drive) but like others found it difficult to get a slot. It would have been very difficult to get all our shopping in one go (neighbour has an eclectic taste!) And I imagine some of the items wouldn’t be available anyway. Also, I prefer to leave these slots to people who really need them and who rely on them.

I won’t be clothes shopping as I don’t need or want anything, but I get a lot of my toiletries and other items online from Boots or Amazon. The thing that worries me is that my small M&S food store and ASDA are on a retail park, along with shops such as Next, TKMax, furniture stores etc. My worry is that more people will now visit when these shops re-open and will combine their trip with a top-up food shop. So probably even longer queues !! So, no I will only shop for necessities when I need to and will avoid my town centre like the plague- which is a pity because a lot of shops already closed before the lock down due to the high business rates and I fear that the town will become a ghost town and that many people will lose their jobs. Very sad, but I fear that after the lock down many others will feel the same way and continue to buy online and these shops will be lost for good. I fear for the economy and people losing their livelihood.

I return to work this week in a non essential shop! We have training first in closed hours and reopen on Thursday, not sure what to expect in all honesty. Stay safe everyone.