Card

[Bazile]

Why is it I can buy a mother's Day card in Asda, but not in Card Factory ?

[calmck]

Ask the Boffins

[Bazile]

Aren't you one then ?

[douglas9401]

I refuse to state the bleedin' obvious.

[drmorgans]

Food retailers are classed as "essential" and can sell the items they usually sell. But I guess you knew that.

[roslyn251254]

Yes asda, tesco etc have been certainly been laughing all the way to the bank during all the lockdowns. Roll on re-opening ...

[Bazile]

@1035
Yes I knew that .

It is a nonsence that you can buy anything from a bra to a tooth brush in a supermarket , but a shop like card factory isn't allowed to open , to sell me a card

This all springs from the fact that Asda had no cards left for mother's Day in the store I went into.

[douglas9401]

Try Morrisons.

[aelmpvw]

hope this is sorted out come father's day in june

[Bazile]

I got one from somewhere else - but that's not really the point i'm making

[jennyjoan]

You do get really beautiful cards from the Post Office - like they stand out from the other plain cards. The only unfortunate thing I don't have a mother - so thank your lucky stars that you have a Mummy

[Bazile]

I don't have a mummy either

[jennyjoan]

Ach sad to hear that Bazile,

[New Judge]

Yes many of the regulations introduced are absolutely ridiculous (though I’d be careful putting that too strongly in case I’m branded an anti-lockdown heretic, or even worse a “Covid denier”).

Many of the so-called “non-essential” shops have been closed for a great deal of the past year. Where I live they were closed in the middle of December and will not open again until the middle of April at the earliest. It’s very true that many of the goods sold by these shops are not needed on an everyday basis. But when the suppliers close for months at a time some of these items become needed as a matter of urgency. My neighbour has a six year old son. He is growing rapidly. He had new school shoes bought for him in the summer and he’s grown out of them (despite them being hardly worn). The local shops that are allowed to open do none suitable for him and he had to return to school last week in trainers (with the school’s permission).

It’s about time this utter nonsense was revised or preferably scrapped altogether.

[THECORBYLOON]

What revisions would you like to see?

[bobbinwales]

The idea is to minimise the number of shopping trips. You can get most things at the supermarket. Better than going to seperate shops

[Bobbisox1]

Mother's Day for many is also a stark reminder for those who no longer have a mother to send a card to , I'm a ' believer' but I don't go for the mush of Happy Mothers Day in heaven which I know FB will be swamped with tomorrow

[Bazile]

Bobbi

Er indoors would be miffed if I didn't present her with a card tomorrow :-)

[Bobbisox1]

I always get one Baz,but I'd much rather give one :0(

[Bazile]

Mohsin and Zuber Issa (and many others) must be laughing all the way to the bank vault

[Prudie]

It's not better than going to separate shops it's just what we have all been told to do. The increased risk of going into 3 or 4 shops compared with doing it all in a supermarket is so infinitesimal it's negligible. Many of us have had enough of these do-gooder instructions that actually bear no impact on the cases and infection rates. Supermarkets, in hindsight, might be proven to be a highly likely place to catch covid just because that's where everyone has gone to get everything possible.