The utter absurdity of what you can and cannot buy in shops

[noxibox]

Basically all grocery shops, and you need to buy something essential with the smokes

City of Cape Town provides list of stores allowed to be open amid Covid-19 lockdown

"Cellphone shops nor money lending businesses are allowed to operate during the lockdown. Cigarettes may be sold during the lockdown, but only together with essential goods."

www.iol.co.za

A lighter?

 

[daveza]

Yip, but defining a list of essential items is impossible because essential is different to everyone else.

Should someone be able to replace a lightbulb during this time if it blows - I'd say yes
Should chocolates, chips and soft drinks be considered an essential item? I'd say no
Should I be able to replace my car battery, I'd say yes
All barbers and hairdressers are closed, yet 2 of the Clicks stores I've been to won't allow you to buy hair trimmers - but you can buy hair dye

Chocolates and soft drinks are bring in more foot traffic than what car batteries would, so using the amount of traffic as the reason does not fit all the examples.

It's a tough job for the government for sure, but at the end of the day the thread title says it all.

Supermarkets and chemists can open.

If it's on the shelves in either there should be no restriction on buying any of it.

Resupply may be a different issue.

 

[WorldWarIII]

is stuff for the hubbly available? flavours mainly?

 

[prod]

Nothing was off limits at my Spar earlier. Except smokes.

Saw the same thing at the Checkers & Spar I visited. Not to mention they were both as busy as ever ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Lots of idiots walking around in their Buffs though...

 

[Gordon_R]

Yip, but defining a list of essential items is impossible because essential is different to everyone else.

Should someone be able to replace a lightbulb during this time if it blows - I'd say yes
Should chocolates, chips and soft drinks be considered an essential item? I'd say no
Should I be able to replace my car battery, I'd say yes
All barbers and hairdressers are closed, yet 2 of the Clicks stores I've been to won't allow you to buy hair trimmers - but you can buy hair dye

Chocolates and soft drinks are bring in more foot traffic than what car batteries would, so using the amount of traffic as the reason does not fit all the examples.

It's a tough job for the government for sure, but at the end of the day the thread title says it all.

To govern is to choose(*). Sometimes its about popularity, i.e. p*ssing off the least number of people. Sometimes its doing the right thing. In this case neither seem to apply, its just a mess...

Quoted in Ronald Tiersky, "François Mitterrand: A Very French President" (2003)

https://quotes.yourdictionary.com/author/quote/84211

 

[j4ck455]

Saw the same thing at the Checkers & Spar I visited. Not to mention they were both as busy as ever ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Lots of idiots walking around in their Buffs though...

Was ist das?

 

[hexagon]

The irony of Reagan saying that and supposedly in support of smaller government. If he really said it.

Well, Stockman blames the Pentagon, but he did indeed say it and it was what he campaigned on (for what that's worth )

 

[pinball wizard]

A lighter?

They sell em on takealot...

 

[pinball wizard]

Lots of idiots walking around in their Buffs though...

Too cold in Kempton today to go to the shops in the buff.

 

[daveza]

Saw the same thing at the Checkers & Spar I visited. Not to mention they were both as busy as ever ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Lots of idiots walking around in their Buffs though...

There's a problem with buffs ?

 

[Currantly]

Bizarre & dangerous behaviour from staff at my local Checkers yesterday....pricing error on their part led to me being overcharged on multiple items (e.g. 5 for R25 deal)...so what do they do? ...they take every single one of the items out my bag to rescan them each individually, and then have them packed back into my bag by another staff member...I was like seriously...wot DA fuch?!?

 

[AlmightyBender]

I dunno what you have in CT

We have civilization here masekind

 

[pinball wizard]

We have civilization here masekind

I wouldn't go as far as all that.

I've seen the recent proposal on trading hours by your ******** mayor.

 

[Drifter]

We have civilization here masekind

Yes, and papsak.

 

[prod]

There's a problem with buffs ?

If you think it'll save you from the Corona...then yes

 

[daveza]

If you think it'll save you from the Corona...then yes

Ah ok, I just want one to look like a cool old fart.

 

[AlmightyBender]

I wouldn't go as far as all that.

I've seen the recent proposal on trading hours by your ******** mayor.

touché good sir

Mr Wizard 1 - 0 Mr Bender

 

[AlmightyBender]

In positive news, I went to Edgemead spar this morning and was able to buy two!! boxes of cigs. I feel very wealthy right now.

I asked them if I could buy all the cigs in the shop but they said no. Bastids.

 

[|tera|]

Might take shops a while to catch up, but it’s just been released
Basically all grocery shops, and you need to buy something essential with the smokes

City of Cape Town provides list of stores allowed to be open amid Covid-19 lockdown

"Cellphone shops nor money lending businesses are allowed to operate during the lockdown. Cigarettes may be sold during the lockdown, but only together with essential goods."

www.iol.co.za

Now they just need to do this country wide.
I still can't see any benefit in stopping cigarette sales. It just creates more stress and frustration for people in these isolation fkd times. It's not good to punish others for the failure of some.

 

[Solarion]

Now they just need to do this country wide.
I still can't see any benefit in stopping cigarette sales. It just creates more stress and frustration for people in these isolation fkd times. It's not good to punish others for the failure of some.

Just testing their authoritarian limits over the nation.