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Lidl in Hackney is pretty decent, big queue but it goes fast, well stocked and big enough to keep a distance, although there are always people who just don't get it. Massive piles of discounted easter eggs don't help.
Trying to do a big shop once a week, but I don't drive so it means pushing home a heavily laden bike with a pizza rack. Local small shops have everything I need but it means going into lots of tiny shops with fewer controls and often no way to keep a distance.
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Yeah Lidl even had a wee station to clean trollies/baskets/hands outside the shop-didn't see anyone use it but hey ho... at least they try. Their checkout staff are fully encased in plastic now which is good to see, the ones on the shop floor less so...
I got quite bad for just popping to local small shops but consciously cut it out because it's where you're more likely to get it I reckon-stocking up the freezer I manage to go 10-14 days in between supermarket trips now although the end of that period can be quite odd back of the shelf combos. My partner's also wasted about a kilo of flour unsuccessfully trying to make sourdough starters to spare bread shops, but I suppose that doubles as cheap entertainment and one day, some time, I may get a loaf out of it...
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pushing home a heavily laden bike with a pizza rack
Time to get some Backrollers then? Fruit, veg, bread etc on pizza rack plus two Backrollers filled to the brim with denser foodstuffs is just about the same amount of shopping you can put in the back of a Fiesta. Or/and:
- Get a trailer.
- Get a cargobike.
- Convert a discarded foldable wheelchair into a stowaway sidecar: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ICoIRy_SFyE&t=398s
- Get one of those two-wheel shopping trolleys with a telescopic handle and attach to rack with a bungee.
- Get a trailer.
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Petteri
Went to supermarket for first time in a couple of weeks. Big queue outside, one in, one out. Good.
Go inside and it's a gammon frenzy of cunts pushing by to grab a fucking satsuma. Young folk were the ones with face covering and general sensible behaviour.
Kind of feels the wrong way around if we're all invested in self-preservation...