> Supermarkets are taking a light touch approach with Tesco, Aldi, Lidl and Iceland not challenging customers.
> Industry body The British Retail Consortium said it is up to police to enforce face mask rules, not retailers.
Seems like the solution is just to fine any supermarket found to have customers not wearing a mask.
Any police officer passing by can pop in and, if he spots a violation, issue a £5000 fixed penalty notice.
This is why banks are so careful about money-laundering these days – because we passed legislation holding them financially liable if they turn a blind eye.
I would make it £50,000 .. and several times a day …. The two problems … a) Profit over health b) most of the non-maskers are not your “prime” customers, but the scallies
Good. People need to mind their own business, I’m not hurting anybody by not wearing a mask
“Mandatory” adjective meaning optional, not required, up to you etc.
Called it.
You can’t argue with anti-mask people. They are the worst people. They also deep down know that their reputation and credibility is in the gutter so they have no shame in a public argument.
All we can do is look out for ourselves and for others and wear a mask. If others want to put some notion of personal pride or misplaced conspiracy bullshit above their respect for others then so be it. Shame on them.
It’s a bit of cloth over your face. Stop crying about it, put your toys back in your pram and grow the fuck up.
I had somebody come into my shop (has a tiny post office in it) with covid tests to be sent off (which we dont do) today…
Knew she had positive testing kids.
Knew we didnt send them off (hoped we would now after some changes happened but no we do not).
Didnt wear a mask.
Didnt tell me it was a covid kit being mailed till after I flipped it over to see what it was.
Was coughing a bit.
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Yeah, theres a reason they do not enforce, because people like that do not care about others and why should a poor shop worker take abuse over it?
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edit: also, my shop requires masks, we have signs up, staff wear them but simply put I am not going to take abuse for minimum wage on the subject, at least half of our customers still refuse to wear a mask.
The staff have no way to check if someone is exempt or not. If a customer claims to be exempt they have no choice but to let them in with no mask. Staff don’t want to get into potentially aggressive confrontations with customers.
The police won’t come out to help because there’s nowhere near enough of them and even if they did the police can’t pull up your medical records on the spot.
Some people will just lie about exemption and they know there’s nothing anyone can do about it.
Most people dont want to wear mask because its uncomfortable.
People on reddit are not living in the real world.
Your just in your own little bubble compared to the real world.
Example most redditer are remainers/Labour and we lost by a big margin. What I’m trying to say is most of the UK population dont really want to wear mask
Just refuse service?
Don’t have to force people to wear them, just don’t serve them?
The government has given an instruction to follow, not your responsibility to enforce mask wearing, just deny service. And people will catch on..
Shop staff on min wage are not paid ernough for it. Npt trained. Not equiped, protected both physically or job wise.
Id not risking getting hurt, assulted, for min wagw for that shit. My safety comes first, and especially as most companies give you fuck all support. People are crazy, i would not be willing to going to take that risk.
Hire security if you want enforcement.
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Enforcing it by supermarket workers would be crazy, they don’t deserve such abuse. If some checks should be made, then the police should take care of it. Though I’ve seen most people wearing masks once again, I’m sure already stating the rule without enforcing it has most of the desired effect.
The shop workers don’t get paid enough to deal with the anti mask mash potato for brains
I hate to break it to the BBC, but the Co-op haven’t “enforced” it since the pandemic started. In fact, we were specifically told *not* to enforce it as it wasn’t our job.
To add to that, not even our security guards enforced it.
‘What did you do during the pandemic, daddy?’
‘Put on a stone. Got weirdly into crochet. Oh, and I found wearing a mask inconvenient so I printed out some guff off the internet and bellowed it at shop workers.’
This is fair enough, shop staff didn’t sign up to be the police and if the government wants to mandate masks in law it should think about how it wants to enforce that.
Why is this not a problem in European countries? No, seriously, why? I can speak for Italy, where no supermarket chain or small shop has complained about having to enfore mask wearing. What is so special about British supermarkets? If I enter a Coop smoking a cigarette, will the staff not challenge me?
They don’t even enforce anti shoplifting rules so its not bloody surprising. my local one maybe has a security guard or two hanging around watching cctv (not deterring) maybe 1 day a month.
rest of the time its obvious as people come in and fill bags full of meat and cheese and just walk out. cctv on those areas, screens at the till. whats the point, they are told not to confront them, and the only people i knew who cared enough to confront shoplifters were sacked.
absolute wank, would rather have a tesco there at least they hire guards and their prices aren’t ludicrous.
My husband works at a local Co-op with a post office. He’s one of the only staff members who wears a mask. His team have been struggling with staffing issues because a bunch of them have been off with covid. My husband has been wearing a mask throughout the pandemic, and was asked by his manager last year when cases were lower to stop wearing it cause it could “scare off customers”. We had a baby in Dec 2019, I’m chronically ill, and now pregnant again. He’s wearing his mask to protect us and said this to his manager at the time. I don’t get why it’s such a big issue for people. It’s a minor inconvenience that helps to protect yourself and others, and wearing one shouldn’t be offensive or “fearmongering” to anyone else.
I run two small shops. I still have my screens up. If a customer cones in with a mask on I put mine on because that customer cares about those around them. If a customer cones in without one I don’t bother because fuck them. I’m not challenging anyone as I work solo a lot and in the last lockdown I had a fight with a dickhead in which the police were called.
Between the Co-op being an expensive place to buy things and seemingly no interest in enforcing rules, I am surprised anybody bothers going there.
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> Supermarkets are taking a light touch approach with Tesco, Aldi, Lidl and Iceland not challenging customers.
> Industry body The British Retail Consortium said it is up to police to enforce face mask rules, not retailers.
Seems like the solution is just to fine any supermarket found to have customers not wearing a mask.
Any police officer passing by can pop in and, if he spots a violation, issue a £5000 fixed penalty notice.
This is why banks are so careful about money-laundering these days – because we passed legislation holding them financially liable if they turn a blind eye.
I would make it £50,000 .. and several times a day …. The two problems … a) Profit over health b) most of the non-maskers are not your “prime” customers, but the scallies
Good. People need to mind their own business, I’m not hurting anybody by not wearing a mask
“Mandatory” adjective meaning optional, not required, up to you etc.
Called it.
You can’t argue with anti-mask people. They are the worst people. They also deep down know that their reputation and credibility is in the gutter so they have no shame in a public argument.
All we can do is look out for ourselves and for others and wear a mask. If others want to put some notion of personal pride or misplaced conspiracy bullshit above their respect for others then so be it. Shame on them.
It’s a bit of cloth over your face. Stop crying about it, put your toys back in your pram and grow the fuck up.
I had somebody come into my shop (has a tiny post office in it) with covid tests to be sent off (which we dont do) today…
Knew she had positive testing kids.
Knew we didnt send them off (hoped we would now after some changes happened but no we do not).
Didnt wear a mask.
Didnt tell me it was a covid kit being mailed till after I flipped it over to see what it was.
Was coughing a bit.
​
Yeah, theres a reason they do not enforce, because people like that do not care about others and why should a poor shop worker take abuse over it?
​
edit: also, my shop requires masks, we have signs up, staff wear them but simply put I am not going to take abuse for minimum wage on the subject, at least half of our customers still refuse to wear a mask.
The staff have no way to check if someone is exempt or not. If a customer claims to be exempt they have no choice but to let them in with no mask. Staff don’t want to get into potentially aggressive confrontations with customers.
The police won’t come out to help because there’s nowhere near enough of them and even if they did the police can’t pull up your medical records on the spot.
Some people will just lie about exemption and they know there’s nothing anyone can do about it.
Most people dont want to wear mask because its uncomfortable.
People on reddit are not living in the real world.
Your just in your own little bubble compared to the real world.
Example most redditer are remainers/Labour and we lost by a big margin. What I’m trying to say is most of the UK population dont really want to wear mask
Just refuse service?
Don’t have to force people to wear them, just don’t serve them?
The government has given an instruction to follow, not your responsibility to enforce mask wearing, just deny service. And people will catch on..
Shop staff on min wage are not paid ernough for it. Npt trained. Not equiped, protected both physically or job wise.
Id not risking getting hurt, assulted, for min wagw for that shit. My safety comes first, and especially as most companies give you fuck all support. People are crazy, i would not be willing to going to take that risk.
Hire security if you want enforcement.
.
Enforcing it by supermarket workers would be crazy, they don’t deserve such abuse. If some checks should be made, then the police should take care of it. Though I’ve seen most people wearing masks once again, I’m sure already stating the rule without enforcing it has most of the desired effect.
The shop workers don’t get paid enough to deal with the anti mask mash potato for brains
I hate to break it to the BBC, but the Co-op haven’t “enforced” it since the pandemic started. In fact, we were specifically told *not* to enforce it as it wasn’t our job.
To add to that, not even our security guards enforced it.
‘What did you do during the pandemic, daddy?’
‘Put on a stone. Got weirdly into crochet. Oh, and I found wearing a mask inconvenient so I printed out some guff off the internet and bellowed it at shop workers.’
This is fair enough, shop staff didn’t sign up to be the police and if the government wants to mandate masks in law it should think about how it wants to enforce that.
Why is this not a problem in European countries? No, seriously, why? I can speak for Italy, where no supermarket chain or small shop has complained about having to enfore mask wearing. What is so special about British supermarkets? If I enter a Coop smoking a cigarette, will the staff not challenge me?
They don’t even enforce anti shoplifting rules so its not bloody surprising. my local one maybe has a security guard or two hanging around watching cctv (not deterring) maybe 1 day a month.
rest of the time its obvious as people come in and fill bags full of meat and cheese and just walk out. cctv on those areas, screens at the till. whats the point, they are told not to confront them, and the only people i knew who cared enough to confront shoplifters were sacked.
absolute wank, would rather have a tesco there at least they hire guards and their prices aren’t ludicrous.
My husband works at a local Co-op with a post office. He’s one of the only staff members who wears a mask. His team have been struggling with staffing issues because a bunch of them have been off with covid. My husband has been wearing a mask throughout the pandemic, and was asked by his manager last year when cases were lower to stop wearing it cause it could “scare off customers”. We had a baby in Dec 2019, I’m chronically ill, and now pregnant again. He’s wearing his mask to protect us and said this to his manager at the time. I don’t get why it’s such a big issue for people. It’s a minor inconvenience that helps to protect yourself and others, and wearing one shouldn’t be offensive or “fearmongering” to anyone else.
I run two small shops. I still have my screens up. If a customer cones in with a mask on I put mine on because that customer cares about those around them. If a customer cones in without one I don’t bother because fuck them. I’m not challenging anyone as I work solo a lot and in the last lockdown I had a fight with a dickhead in which the police were called.
Between the Co-op being an expensive place to buy things and seemingly no interest in enforcing rules, I am surprised anybody bothers going there.