brighton terra
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The only shops I frequented before lockdown were supermarkets, newsagents, DIY stores and garden centres. All of my other supplies were bought online. It won’t be any different on Monday.
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[Misc] Shops re-open on Monday - are you up for it?
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vegster
Sanity Clause
- May 5, 2008
- 28,272
The only way we can get the economy ticking over again is to open up in a sensible way. It's going to need a lot of common sense, patience, ingenuity and personal responsibility.
Distancing, mask wearing, regular cleaning with sanitizers, less touching of goods, protective screens and extended opening hours of shops to get the previous volume of sales spread over a longer day. People really need to self isolate if they have any doubts about their health, rather than wind around M&S for 2 hours spreading it.
It is doable but will involve sacrifices in profit margins for stores, stagnant wages and less favourable working hours for staff, and the big elephant in the room, will shareholders accept lower dividends on a long term basis?
Distancing, mask wearing, regular cleaning with sanitizers, less touching of goods, protective screens and extended opening hours of shops to get the previous volume of sales spread over a longer day. People really need to self isolate if they have any doubts about their health, rather than wind around M&S for 2 hours spreading it.
It is doable but will involve sacrifices in profit margins for stores, stagnant wages and less favourable working hours for staff, and the big elephant in the room, will shareholders accept lower dividends on a long term basis?
Wrong-Direction
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- Mar 10, 2013
- 13,634
If in a weeks time there is no spike due to the protests I'm going to get on with my life
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Tom Hark Preston Park
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- Jul 6, 2003
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Like the re-opening of the pubs, best avoided til the frenzied novelty wears off
Excluding food and booze I tend to only shop online anyway so no, I won't be going into town. Open the restuarants - now that's a different matter entirely !
Tom Hark Preston Park
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- Jul 6, 2003
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Wonder how long before the Twitter Flash Mob trend to try and force a name change?
Indeed.
Yesterday's figures were almost identical to the previous Friday ( 1541 new vs 1557 new, 202 deceased vs 204 ).
Let's see where we are this time next week.
Tom Hark Preston Park
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- Jul 6, 2003
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If only someone could invent an online book seller. Oh.
Beach Hut
Brighton Bhuna Boy
There is never a need to buy a new book given thousands of good ones are in charity shops
Tom Hark Preston Park
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- Jul 6, 2003
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Totally agree. Nothing finer then perusing the book section in the BHF shop in London Road, have picked up loads of genuine gems in there for £1.50. Hugely random however. For a book that something somewhere along the way has really triggered you into wanting to read, Amazon is your friend. Well, it's MY friend anyways
ManOfSussex
We wunt be druv
Just like whenever the pubs reopen, it'll be absolute dickhead central in the shops from Monday - 'Maisie! ****ing come back here! We got to go to Sports Direct, innit.' etc
Not for me Clive.
Not for me Clive.
vegster
Sanity Clause
- May 5, 2008
- 28,272
The US has seen the start of a bit of a spike, after a few days of new case numbers falling below 20k a day they have bounced back up to 27k cases yesterday.. Thinking this corresponds to the start of the George Floyd protests.
Stumpy Tim
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Stumpy Tim
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That's not true. There were 357 deceased last Friday
Joey Jo Jo Jr. Shabadoo
I believe in Joe Hendry
- Oct 4, 2003
- 12,064
No they weren't. The figures for yesterday (12th June) were 1,541 cases and 202 new deaths, but the figures for last Friday (5th June) were 1,650 new cases and 357 new deaths. So a slight drop in cases (approx 6%) and approx 43% drop in deaths. The figure you've quoted for last Friday are actually the numbers announced on Saturday 6th June.
Tom Hark Preston Park
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- Jul 6, 2003
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A very good reason to avoid, queues and dickheads a match made in heaven.
You can almost already SEE the headlines about 10 mile tailbacks for Lakeside and Bluewater
LamieRobertson
Not awoke
Life’s a challenge as well you know....its up to them to sort it out...lets just wait and see what ingenuity they have come up with first ..you never know it might go ok..you’d be more at risk in a car at the mo judging by the way i have seen some people driving over the last few weeks
