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Last week, I took the decision to do my weekly shopping online for the time being. I shop in Asda several times a week, and usually spend upwards of \u00a3150 there on groceries, and similar on fuel (I have a 2% cashback credit card with them, which is one of the drivers for that).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I placed my order last Wednesday, and the earliest delivery slot was Saturday. No problem. But when I came to do it this week, on Tuesday, the entire delivery calendar was booked out (it went as far as next<\/strong> Friday). Click & Collect goes further out, but that was fully booked out until April.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I went on to Morrisons\u2019 website, and their delivery slots are booked out until mid-April. I since read that their site has crashed several times due to demand.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Then I tried Ocado, and was met with a page that said \u2018you are no. 687 in a queue of 687. Approximate wait time is 10 minutes\u2019. That was just to access the site! A family friend tried today, and was eight thousand and something out of eight thousand and something! I have since read that Ocado has stopped taking on new customers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n So our wonderful government has overlooked starvation (because you can\u2019t buy anything online) vs infection (because you\u2019re forced to go out) as an outcome of their poor handling of this situation to date. Should be fun if they impose a lockdown, so you can\u2019t<\/strong> go out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n But I decided to go to Asda last night for some essentials. I shouldn\u2019t have bothered. The shelves were nearly all completely empty \u2013 no fresh vegetables, virtually no fruit, no meat, no milk (except the kind that often goes off five minute after you open it), no tinned goods, no noodles or pasta of any kind, no bread of any kind, no frozen food except a few pizzas and Yorkshire puddings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I did manage to get a few things, and when I arrived at the checkout there was a middle-aged couple there before me. They were that type you just want to shoot (and which I have mentioned before). For a start off, there didn\u2019t need to be two of them there at all, but there was, and they did everything<\/strong> as a couple. Of course, they allowed everything to be checked through before even thinking about bagging it, and they bagged everything as a couple before even thinking about paying. Then he<\/strong> got his wallet out, took out a credit card, gave it to her, and she<\/strong> had to lean over the trolley to push it in the card machine and slowly enter the PIN because he was much closer to it to start with.<\/p>\n\n\n\n But what mostly caught my eye was what they had purchased. About twenty bags \u2013 and I mean somewhere around that number \u2013 of curly kale. I mean, curly kale? What the f—?<\/p>\n\n\n\n I immediately had my suspicions, so when I got home I did a quick Google and \u2013 surprise, surprise \u2013 some twat (a \u2018wellbeing coach\u2019, which explains perfectly) in Malaysia has claimed kale prevents you from catching Coronavirus! And that\u2019s why they had bought the entire shelf stock of it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The ironic thing is, too much kale is suspected of being bad for you, and the potential problems it can cause looked as if this couple might be susceptible in the first place. Idiots.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Today, I went into Morrisons and did manage to get a few bits. Only a few, though. It seems like every idiot out there has suddenly discovered Kidney Beans, Borlotti Beans, Chickpeas, and so on. I wanted some kidney beans because I\u2019m making a chilli to freeze into portions \u2013 something I do regularly, as I do with homemade pasta sauce (there was none of that in Morrisons, either, I noticed). The shelves were empty. The thing is, no one usually touches these things.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Fortunately, the cash & carry wasn\u2019t quite as bad (though it was still bad), and I managed to pick up a couple of catering cans of kidney beans and chopped tomatoes (though they\u2019re not Napolina, but you can\u2019t have everything, I suppose). Far more than I wanted because of the cans sizes, but it was that or nothing. I\u2019ll just have to make more chilli than I intended.<\/p>\n\n\n\n