Editor

When we next go to the supermarket, how about thanking the staff and their supply drivers, for the work they’ve been doing in the past 10 days? They must be under enormous pressure keeping shelves stocked as best they can, and the tills running whilst being short-staffed. And it’s not as if they’re the best paid people.

Close contact with crowds of irate customers and handling debit cards, money and goods, must leave supermarket staff more at risk of catching the virus than almost anyone working anywhere.

Some, especially the older part-timers, are unable to go to work, because owing to things like diabetes etc, they fall into the vulnerable groups, and the burden’s left with the management and the other remaining employees. It takes time to hire and train temporary staff.

Yet, far from receiving a word of thanks, some staff are getting abuse from obnoxious customers who can’t get everything they demand. It’s not their or the suppliers’ fault that we’re panic buying so much stuff that the shelves are empty.

They can only put things out when it gets delivered, and they need to keep a steady flow of the food that’s available; not deliver and sell it all at once so that people with more money than sense, can stockpile it up to rot in their cupboards.

Ronald Olden Lôn Llynlloedd Machynlleth

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