{"id":24341,"date":"2020-03-30T21:10:10","date_gmt":"2020-03-30T20:10:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=24341"},"modified":"2020-03-30T21:10:10","modified_gmt":"2020-03-30T20:10:10","slug":"coronavirus-lockdown-day-7-independents-and-supermarkets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=24341","title":{"rendered":"Coronavirus Lockdown Day 7 &#8211; Independents and Supermarkets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag20\/203033008.jpg\" alt=\"Coronavirus Lockdown Day 7\" \/><br \/>\nThere is a sign outside The White Horse pub saying <em>Thank you NHS.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>There is a Healthy Abingdon web page with information about the NHS and other services to help people at this time&#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.healthyabingdon.org.uk\/coronavirus.htm\">http:\/\/www.healthyabingdon.org.uk\/coronavirus.htm<\/a>.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag20\/203033006a.jpg\" alt=\"Coronavirus Lockdown Day 7\" \/><br \/>\nLucy asked me to let people know of a new scheme she is setting up to help some of the independent shops through this time. &#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pg\/ox14independents\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pg\/ox14independents<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Most independents are closed and probably still need to pay rent.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag20\/203033007.jpg\" alt=\"Coronavirus Lockdown Day 7\" \/><br \/>\nMost supermarkets have introduced queuing as they limit the number of customers in shops at any one time.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag20\/203033001.jpg\" alt=\"Coronavirus Lockdown Day 7\" \/><br \/>\nTesco Extra prioritise the elderly and most vulnerable for one hour between 9am and 10am every Monday, Wednesday and Friday, and NHS staff&nbsp; between 9am and 10am every Tuesday and Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Waitrose dedicate the first hour to elderly and vulnerable shoppers, as well as those who look after them.<\/p>\n<p>Both shops now have new flow signs, and dedicated marshals to help manage queues, and remind customers of the two-metre social distancing rule.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag20\/203033003.jpg\" alt=\"Coronavirus Lockdown Day 7\" \/><br \/>\nHopefully the days of panic buying toilet rolls are over.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag20\/203033009.jpg\" alt=\"Coronavirus Lockdown Day 7\" \/><br \/>\nWho would have predicted the two-metre social distancing rule: certainly not Abingdon-on-Thames Town Council with their <i>Happy to Chat<\/i> benches.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is a sign outside The White Horse pub saying Thank you NHS. There is a Healthy Abingdon web page with information about the NHS and other services to help people at this time&#8230; http:\/\/www.healthyabingdon.org.uk\/coronavirus.htm. Lucy asked me to let people know of a new scheme she is setting up to help some of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[81],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24341","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24341"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24341\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}