Essential item...you be the judge.

[MikePal]

My wife just got back from the lockdowned Walmart SuperStore in Kemptville. She told me a story I have to share to punctuate the silliness.

She picked up the 3 bags/ bag of 1%....and she grabbed a new plastic jug/pitcher. Puppy chewed the old one.

She gets to the cash and the bar code on the pitcher wouldn't scan...it was an item deemed 'not essential' ...she looks at the lady and said "so how do you pour your milk out of the plastic bag without the pitcher".

"Sorry someone above my pay grade made that decision" she responds...couldn't sell it to her. HaHa.

Further contributing to our state of Mental Health...and on this of all weeks

[MarkB]

Oh there's a lot of craziness going on.

Story 1 ... I'm at a gas station, asking for some redwood cigars ... he walks down to the left side of his counter. I follow him on the other side. He gets upset at me, because I didn't stay where the pay point is and I'm not following "COVID RULES" ... I'm like WTF??? THE WHOLE COUNTER HAS PLEXIGLASS ACROSS IT as in there is no difference in risk where I'm standing, actually maybe even a higher risk at the pay point because there are open areas in the plexiglass. I'm like dude, I'm still on the other side of the plexiglass, and just want to look at the flavors you have to save you from the back and forth in case I don't want them. He insists until I go back to the pay point, he will not show me the cigars through the plexiglass ... and to top it all off, I have candy bars, chips, earphones, etc. all around me for sale ... so it's okay to stand there to get an item to buy, but not to look through the plexiglass at cigars.

Story 2 ... I'm at Home Depot in their garden center. I've got like 25 items, plants, fertilizer, etc. Cashier says move forward your buggy and then step back, pointing to an area that's probably 15 ft from the buggy (like it was absurdly far), and she was doing it to everyone. So I do that, and step back. I can see her picking up plants, scanning them ... then I thought she picked up the same plants again and double charged me ... so I take one step closer to try and count the number of items in the cart ... I'm still like 12 ft away (far). She yells at me ... sir, please step back, I'll be finished in a second. I step back to 15 ft away. When she is done, she goes back behind her plexiglass, and I then finish the item count quickly, and she verifies she has the same number of items as I counted .... good. So then after all that, I pay, and SHE HANDS ME THE RECIEPT, even touching my hand in the process, skin to skin ... AFTER ALL THAT, I'm like WTF did you make me stand 15 feet away for?!!??

People have lost all common sense.

[410001661]

to classify something essential is all about perception......for instance if you do not have a can opener they become pretty essential rather quickly. Same goes for lightbulbs, spatula, strainer, or any other object one takes for granted especially when you no longer have one. Now someone trying to buy a video game is clearly not essential. Too bad society cannot play between the low water mark and the high water mark without someone there to tell them what is common sense.

[Bowjob]

lol, yet i called basspro the other day and they had 2 turkey chokes ready for me to go pick up 5 minutes later, had a little table outside and i paid right there and went turkey hunting right after.


weird world we live in right now. i dont mind tho. i barley went out when covid wasnt here LOL.

[impact]

Costco a few minutes ago. Pool salt bags available. Everything else roped off. Picked up a couple of bags.
Usual shopping crowd in all food aisles. Hardware not available.
Clerks with carts still peddling products here and there.

One thing of note. The pharmacy had an area setup in past weeks with chairs and barriers for people waiting to get a covid jab. It has all been removed. Ghost town there now.

Simply amazing how the virus is so sophisticated it knows the difference between a food and hardware aisle.

[Badenoch]

I don't object to the rules as much as the inconsistency even among outlets in the same corporation. The LCBO for example. Some have carry baskets, others carts only. Some want your purchases placed on the front of the counter, back of the counter in others, one wanted the bottles passed through the small opening in the plexiglass. Pick a lane.

[js4fn]

Buddy wanted to buy a ball for his dog not allowed. Flower pots where ok

[fishfood]

Buddy wanted to buy a ball for his dog not allowed. Flower pots where ok

But you couldn't buy the soil lol. Had to cross over the yellow tape to check out the soil . Didn't have what I was looking for lol.

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[gbk]

Lots of nonsense, and lots of power hungry ppl became powerhouses overnight.

As for inconsistency-thumbs down
As for them not able to sell many things -what Mom and Pop shops also can not sell -thumbs up.
As for allowing Amazon to become filthy rich-thumbs down

[MikePal]

But you couldn't buy the soil lol. Had to cross over the yellow tape to check out the soil . Didn't have what I was looking for lol.

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All the garden centres are OPEN..have been since the lockdown began....soil: 5/$10 (25lbs bags) at the Indepentant Garden Centre.

..my wife made me load 24 bags into her SUV.