Coronavirus UK: Are supermarkets the new superspreaders?

A heartbroken son has begged people to stay indoors and obey social distancing after his mother, 87, died from coronavirus after shopping in Asda, amid fears that supermarkets could become superspreaders of the killer illness. Shoppers were pictured squeezing together at supermarkets up and down the country this morning, ignoring social distancing rules from the … Read more

Will supermarkets become the new superspreader of coronavirus?

A heartbroken son has begged people to stay indoors and obey social distancing after his mother, 87, died from coronavirus after shopping in Asda, amid fears that supermarkets could become superspreaders of the killer illness. Shoppers were pictured squeezing together at supermarkets up and down the country this morning, ignoring social distancing rules from the … Read more

UK supermarkets call for an extra 50,000 workers amid rising demand

UK supermarkets call for an extra 50,000 workers to cope with rise in demand By Daily Mail City & Finance Reporter Published: 21:51 GMT, 23 March 2020 | Updated: 22:07 GMT, 23 March 2020 Britain’s leading supermarkets need an extra 50,000 staff within weeks to cope with a rise in demand Demand for workers to … Read more

Shoppers in desperate hunt for paracetamol as supermarkets and chemists run out

Desperate shoppers all over the UK are hunting for paracetamol with supermarkets and chemists facing running out of the painkiller by this weekend amid the coronavirus outbreak. Exports of the world’s most popular painkiller, which the government is advising Brits to use to combat the symptoms of the killer virus, are being restricted by India … Read more

Police step in to stop selfish stockpilers barging past pensioners in supermarkets

Hundreds of shoppers were spotted queueing around the entire carpark of a Tesco at 6am today.  Shocking drone footage revealed the true extent of panic buying amid the coronavirus pandemic.  The same Tesco in New Malden, London, saw a similarly gigantic queue snake around its carpark at 5.50am yesterday.   Shocking drone footage revealed the true … Read more

Police step in to stop selfish stockpilers barging past pensioners in supermarkets

Hundreds of shoppers were spotted queueing around the entire carpark of a Tesco at 6am today.  Shocking drone footage revealed the true extent of panic buying amid the coronavirus pandemic.  The same Tesco in New Malden, London, saw a similarly gigantic queue snake around its carpark at 5.50am yesterday.   Shocking drone footage revealed the true … Read more

Britain’s supermarkets are on a war footing: What are they doing to help shoppers?

Britain’s supermarket sector has been thrown into the spotlight like never before in the last few weeks. Panic-stricken shoppers are stockpiling goods and stripping shelves bare of essentials as the Government’s draconian but necessary lockdown plans ramp up. From the crack of dawn, shoppers are queuing up outside supermarket doors to try and get hold … Read more

Hundreds of shoppers line up outside supermarkets before doors open

The Environment Secretary today insisted there was a ‘significant resilience in our food supply chain’ and told shoppers there is not a shortage of food across the UK.  George Eustice told MPs that the government was in talks to relax competition laws among supermarkets, and appeared to confirm that shop workers’ children could still go to … Read more

Hundreds of shoppers line up outside supermarkets before doors open

Tesco   Will impose restrictions on all customers to buying a maximum of three products per line from Thursday. Limit for key products; disinfectants, hand sanitisers, long life milk, tinned vegetables and pasta.  It was forced to take its mobile app offline temporarily due to high demand on Tuesday, and announced it would be reducing the … Read more

Online deliveries from supermarkets could take up to SIX WEEKS

Online deliveries from supermarkets could take up to SIX WEEKS as more people self-isolate at home for a fortnight amid coronavirus fears The government have told all elderly and vulnerable to self-isolate for 12 weeks  It fanned spike in internet delivery orders which has left retailers snowed-under  Industry leaders said supermarkets would ‘never have enough’ … Read more