Home Shopping customer picks.
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From 3am to 4am each morning I'm picking on ambient, then from 4am til 9am (finish) I pick chilled.
Today at 8am they asked me to go back and help for the last hour on ambient, urgh.
Got my trolley and eight customer orders.
Picked a few items then it sent me down to the aisle 36, urgh, baby food.
First two customers want 30 different jars of baby food, each.
Then off to aisle 4, wines and spirits.
Two customers want wine, both wanted six of the same wine each and one wanted another.
Then one customer wanted seven different flavours of gin.
After a while you start looking at the orders and wondering what the customer is like.
Today was quite normal with 28,000 items to pick, last week we had a day with 34,000 item picks.
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the joys of lockdown.
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@pip-bip England is still in lockdown 2.0 and Scotland went into tier 4 for half the population.
Travel is limited and cross border travel isn't allowed without reason, with us being right on the border we have a lot of cross border commutes between north Cumbria and south west Scotland.
With the Scottish minimum price per unit of alcohol on their alcohol sales. Our store was packed yesterday with Scots wanting cheap alcohol before they went into tier 4 today.
They are on lockdown for three weeks now while England finishes on the 2nd December. -
@svend sadly 3 weeks won't be long enough. took us 4 months to get it under control.
as a result we have only one single active case in the state now. -
@pip-bip Wales just finished a firebreak, England is on lockdown for four weeks, half of Scotland is on tier 4 lockdown.
After the lockdowns and firebreaks we'll still have the tier system but trying to get people to obey an extended lockdown again would be a very hard sell.
One thing I want to know it, my city has quite a high covid positive number, but because we are a large city and have three testing stations. We often get cars from Lancashire come up and high number of people from south west Scotland come down to get a test (ye', figure that one out, non essential travel is banned but you can cross the border if you've got a test to be done (pop into a supermarket, grab shit loads of beer and supplies, go for your test)) then drive back across the border and isolate with all (with all your alcohol) until you get the results back.
My question is, any positive results, do they get counted as Lancashire and south west Scotlands figures for those from those areas or do they get counted as Cumbrian figures. -
@svend i'd like to think they count for whatever city/town the person's registered address is. not the testing station.
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@pip-bip It's rather foreign to hear rational people talking to each other. Depressing too.
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@pip-bip I hope so. But we've a awful lot of positives for our population while three towns just over the border are rife with covid yet the figure the Scottish government has for those areas is very low.
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@gettingoldercarguy sorry, didn't see this post earlier.
There is a lot of un-rational people here too.
One Polish taxi driver here tried convincing me masks don't work by showing me a video of an American YouTube conspiracy monger 'proving masks are unsafe as they allow carbon monoxide build up'. He did this by using a household carbon monoxide detector with it's probe put into the side of the mask.
He was so convinced until I explain those detectors aren't THAT sensitive, no way would the alarm go off that quickly even if they were and the mask he was wearing had a filter on which only filters going in, not going out, so no carbon monoxide would or anything for that matter would build up.
One Irish taxi driver was convinced trump has done so much for good in the U.S. especially with Covid that she put a large bet on him getting in for a second term.
One English driver was convinced the U.S. was doing the best out of all the nation's for protecting it's people from Covid and masks don't work.
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@svend holy crap. Keep healthy, that kind of repetitive work can wear on you
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@carsoffortlangley The bending and twisting can be a real backache, especially as the trolleys have four wheels that move, so you have to use your weight to steer it and these trolleys can get very heavy, very fast.
I am walking around 10 miles a day back and fourth around the store. So it's both good for health and bad for health at the same time.
The Early Grey is helping a bit. Cheers again. -
@svend Well, I'm glad we could contribute something to y'alls response.
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@svend glad to hear it! I felt a bit silly sending tea to England but it's a neat local product
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@gettingoldercarguy It's shocking how many in the the U.K. are moving away from community to self absorption.
Believing conspircay theories and denying facts. -
@carsoffortlangley To be fair, all tea in England is sent to England. Lol.
Hell there is a Chinese company who brings tea to the U.K., process and package it and then sends it back to China. Mental.I need to take the coffee beans to be ground as I don't have a grinder but I know an old coffee shop that'll do it for me.
