My, how quickly things can change!
I’m not going to go on about the state of play at my
place of work. Like anyone in the supermarket trade, we’ve had a ridiculously
trying week. I’ve spent more time helping deal with footfall in the store than
I have spent running things at the garages! It’s been all hands to the pumps
(or all hands AWAY from the pumps, in my case). But I won’t go on about that,
as you’ll have been seeing it on the news, reading about it online, or
experiencing it first-hand for yourselves. The bottom line? People are
arseholes. Selfish, self-serving, expert-advice-ignoring arseholes. The food
supply chain is running and will continue to run even if we’re in national
lockdown. The only thing causing problems is over-buying. This happens every
time bad weather is forecast, it happened during the fuel protests, it happened
during the Beast from the East, and they tell me it happened back at the time
of the Gulf War (both of them, in fact).
People go mad, and selfish, and they don’t need to. We’ll bounce back. The
shelves will restock, if you leave us alone long enough to do them. Extra staff
will be taken on, and we’ll catch up and meet demands, IF the demand is a
sensible one.
And if that fails, I say we bring back rationing!!!
One final thing on this – it makes me laugh that every
time I venture over to the store, there are no boxes of chocolatey cereal bars,
but plenty of bags of salad. Good to know that these panic-buyers are
panic-buying the right stuff to keep their families healthy!!
RC 18-3-20
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