Current Affairs Coronavirus Thread - Serious stuff !!!

[PhilM]

After three months of no work or furlough with nothing to do day to day it doesn’t surprise me that there’s a big queue outside somewhere like Primark. A lot of people there probably made the journey in on the bus and by the time you get there you figure might as well queue up, the alternative is going home and sitting there again, like you have done for the past 12 weeks.

Also seems wrong to me to slate people for getting out there and spending money when we’ve just seen the economy absolutely tank and tens of thousands of jobs with it. I bet the people employed by Primark will be happy to have a job to go back to. 80% of a Primark wage wont be much.

Mate, I was being facetious. Even though they're backed from their owners, Primark have no online retailer and big rents, which they've recently had to reduce.

So, it really is important for getting money in their till. Yet, I think the point, which is really irrelevant, was that most people believe Primark is absolutely pants.

Each to their own, I wouldn't stand in a Primark queue with there was nobody else in it let alone if there was lots.

 

[Bruce Wayne]

After three months of no work or furlough with nothing to do day to day it doesn’t surprise me that there’s a big queue outside somewhere like Primark. A lot of people there probably made the journey in on the bus and by the time you get there you figure might as well queue up, the alternative is going home and sitting there again, like you have done for the past 12 weeks. With 2 metre social distancing the large queues are pretty inevitable for a place like Primark or Ikea, which are rammed at the best of times.

Also seems wrong to me to slate people for getting out there and spending money when we’ve just seen the economy absolutely tank and tens of thousands of jobs with it. I bet the people employed by Primark will be happy to have a job to go back to. 80% of a Primark wage wont be much.

Slavery is bad y'all, but buying a t-shirt made by a child in a sweatshop is fine.

 

[Brennan]

Mate, I was being facetious. Even though they're backed from their owners, Primark have no online retailer and big rents, which they've recently had to reduce.

So, it really is important for getting money in their till. Yet, I think the point, which is really irrelevant, was that most people believe Primark is absolutely pants.

Each to their own, I wouldn't stand in a Primark queue with there was nobody else in it let alone if there was lots.

Hadn’t seen your post when I posted mine, no bother.

Want aimed at anybody in particular.

GET OUT THERE

SPEND YER CASH

SAVE THE ECONOMY

 

[Charro]

As someone who’s been a poor student and had time on the dole I know primark is great for people with not much money.

We need to stop shaming people constantly.

 

[Brennan]

Slavery is bad y'all, but buying a t-shirt made by a child in a sweatshop is fine.

This thread is bad enough without a discussion of the morals of buying cheap clothes too lol

 

[NilSatisOptimum]

Let's hope Games workshop sets a trend... https://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money...hop-repay-Government-coronavirus-support.html. I could not base coat for weeks anywhere, and when I did some places where trying to charge £30 for a normal £12.99 can... I



I would imagine many businesses that have online retail presence have had a good time... Supermarkets, Amazon, and many garden centres, the one I use normally stopped taking online orders from first week April as they were sold out stock well into June. Used eBay for the first time in years for all my bedding and baskets seedlings.
And let's get a grip, online is where all the sales have been drifting for years now... Its restaurants and pubs and such like that will feel the brunt of this.

 

[mccole]

Shops will be rammed because lockdown is over and people have seen a weak government do nothing but flaunt rules and completely misinform the public on purpose.

Not one paper or journalist is holding this government to hand over this or the raising R rating.

It's says slot about this country which has tools protecting pieces of stone or metal then protect their fellow humans.

Get in the Bin UK

 

[Nymzee]

Let's hope Games workshop sets a trend... https://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money...hop-repay-Government-coronavirus-support.html. I could not base coat for weeks anywhere, and when I did some places where trying to charge £30 for a normal £12.99 can... I



I would imagine many businesses that have online retail presence have had a good time... Supermarkets, Amazon, and many garden centres, the one I use normally stopped taking online orders from first week April as they were sold out stock well into June. Used eBay for the first time in years for all my bedding and baskets seedlings.
And let's get a grip, online is where all the sales have been drifting for years now... Its restaurants and pubs and such like that will feel the brunt of this.

Bit confusing how GW managed to do that as they ran out of almost all online stock straight away haha. I was fuming!

 

[Bruce Wayne]

Let's hope Games workshop sets a trend... https://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money...hop-repay-Government-coronavirus-support.html. I could not base coat for weeks anywhere, and when I did some places where trying to charge £30 for a normal £12.99 can... I



I would imagine many businesses that have online retail presence have had a good time... Supermarkets, Amazon, and many garden centres, the one I use normally stopped taking online orders from first week April as they were sold out stock well into June. Used eBay for the first time in years for all my bedding and baskets seedlings.
And let's get a grip, online is where all the sales have been drifting for years now... Its restaurants and pubs and such like that will feel the brunt of this.

Bit confusing how GW managed to do that as they ran out of almost all online stock straight away haha. I was fuming!

As in the little plastic toys? Guys?

 

[Nymzee]

As in the little plastic toys? Guys?

Collectible models, Bruce, not toys.

 

[brieverton]

There is probably a novelty in queueing, under circumstances like this, for a lot of people.

If it was for something I really needed and/or wanted, then ok. But as before covid, I tend to frequent shops only on an absolute need-to-use basis only anyway.

Physical shopping as a social activity is destroyed - the constant state of vigilence, and inability to casually browse items and just relax, and go shopping with family and friends, are nails in the coffin for the shopping experience.

And this is during the summer, there will be no queues when its teeming with rain and its dark and cold. But perhaps the situation will have eased by then.

 

[BlueStevie35]

Feel for my fellow colleagues this morning, according to the Echo we were forced to open 45 mins early cos the queues were bad, absolute morons who just couldn’t freaking wait till 8 or longer to get in the bloody store.

 

[orchard]

Collectible models, Bruce, not toys.

Pic's or it never happened...

 

[BlueStevie35]

Primark's is known to attract the intellectually disadvantaged. Probably unable to 'work a computer'.

What an idiotic comment

 

[Bruce Wayne]

Collectible models, Bruce, not toys.