How’s everyone coping by the way?

A lad off of Eastmoor created a group for those on Facebook where people can aid each other. Called help your communities. Worth checking out if you can help a hand or in turn need help yourself!

But you specifically said, in bold, that the big retailers are profiteering.
Big retailers are accepted as Asda, Morrisons, Tesco and Sainsbury. With Aldi and Lidl next in line.
The big 4 are working directly with government on food supply chain. They are not altering prices.

Of course you'll see idiots selling higher on ebay or some individual small traders looking for an extra lift but that's not the same as you said.

INOUT


Thanks PT but the sad fact is that we all have something in common and it’s people surviving this curse.

That’s why I asked on another thread that people keep their political bias to themselves, now isn’t the time.

We’ve made mistakes, I’ve dropped a clanger and I’m mad with myself. Thankfully my direct superior handed me a copy of what we call the SRP’s and asked me to find the section for pandemics. Obviously there wasn’t one and the point was made.

My Gran is in the 70* group and she is seething about the response of some of her contempories. She’s always said her generation was the luckiest that ever lived and got everything given on a plate. As she says she was alive during the war but the sacrifice was made by her parents, all she did was go without sweets.

People need to wake up. Imo for every week this pandemic crippled the country it adds a lest 2 month to the countries recovery time. If we use China as an example we are looking at 24 weeks so that’s four years before we are totally back to where we were just a month ago, so people better get used to it.

Frightening and it nowhere near it’s peak yet.

You don’t get the last word Coronavirus does. If you think people like me and I’m an officer not an enlisted man are profiteering at your expense then I can only pity the sort of mentality that can think that way.

Sure there are spivs about but me and my fellow workers even those at the very top are family men and women doing a job, you are branding us as gangsters.

For a man/women as I have no idea what you are who is in there seventies you have a hell of a lot of growing up to do.

Finally none of my colleagues went to Eton, most of us came up through the ranks. None of us have a Jag or a villa in Spain, we just do a job and in the case of management we don’t get overtime for our current efforts and as far as I know nobody has asked for it.

Just think on before you brand people a profiteers, if you knew your history you’d know that the Nazis played the same nasty trick in the 1930’s and that didn’t go well did it!

While you’re at it you should think about apologising to the lad at Iceland whose right on the front line. He’s unlikely to die but it’s not impossible and if he does he will have been far more put out by the virus than you and your wife, ie dead before his life had really begun.

Sadly I suspect I’m wasting my time.

A bit OTT PT but I'll take that on the chin.
I was quoting what a member of staff at Asda told me. That fact WAS correctly quoted.
It seems more likely you wanted to tell me how hard you and your colleagues are working to keep supplies available. I'm sure you are. Lots of people are working harder through this time, you're not unique but nonetheless I acknowledge it.

I did want to tell you as the person in Asda is giving you misinformation or doesn't understand.
I can tell you I am personally not working nearly as hard as those in stores or depots.

Probably was an OTT reply but I felt like I needed to say it.

BoB milk went up from £1.50 to £1.79 in a week in Asda, what ever the reason it’s a decent rise.

Providing the price comes down once this whole epidemic is over, I have no problem with it because otherwise once it is all over we’ll have no supermarkets to go to.

20% is drastic but nothing compared to other manufacturers/distributors.

BoB/Arla red top filtered is £1.85 and has been for a while now in More reasons at Barnsalee.

Thought you'd be concentrating on buying pies anyway.....
May I suggest getting the milk from a proper milkman (mines Milky Pete) like I do... 60p a pint and it keeps him busy!
Thats if you can of course....
Better than the milk from any supermarket too......

That's a funny example because it's actually on at £1.75 and that's still the cheapest price in the big 4 supermarkets
Looks like an offer that just ended.

And Sainsbury in their defense have a higher price because they give profits to Sports Relief.

OK I'l let you off!

....OMG...FMC and PT are now best buddies ...

Jeez...the world must have gone mad for this to happen..Oh hang on a minute....


No seriously guys, respect to you both for your efforts in keeping the country going....as I said on the other thread, we all need to learn tolerance and understanding at this desperate time and if you two can continue to get on then surely the world will be a much better place when we eventually come out the other side

Okay guys.....time for a bit of light-hearted entertainment to try and lift people's spirits..... https://www.indy100.com/article/coronav ... ng-9416531 (Poptart...it's not from the video site that we can't mention, so I hope you are okay with this ??)

Okay guys.....time for a bit of light-hearted entertainment to try and lift people's spirits..... https://www.indy100.com/article/coronav ... ng-9416531 (Poptart...it's not from the video site that we can't mention, so I hope you are okay with this ??)