“Dear Mette. I work in a supermarket on the west coast and is mega-worried.”
two weeks ago put Anna Bodil Pedersen down and wrote a message to the prime minister.
She is one of those who every day are still leaving home to go to work, because she is employed in a grocery store. Everyone should be able to shop for groceries, but there come too many together.
“We are seeing more and more families, which takes off to the sommerhusområderne, and they do not respect all the rules. They do not respect the terms, as the prime minister has instructed us to follow,” she says.
shopping in big groups, standing too close and take too lightly the precautions.
Anna, too, fear that there will be even more people in the passover. For it is not only sommerhusgæster, which creates congestion and concern. The days around the festive season is usually the year’s absolute busiest, because the danes buy in for the holidays and places to eat easter lunch.
“I don’t think it will be fun to work over easter. I am afraid to be infected, and we are very vulnerable in the store,” says Anna.
She is not alone with its concern for påsketravlheden. Even though the authorities warn against to come together, travel the country around and create the hustle and bustle of the supermarkets, are the examples of to the contrary numerous. On Facebook becomes the prime minister Mette Frederiksen of the same reason, also, time after time bombarded with messages from worried about the danes.
‘It is mad in the supermarkets’, writes Kurt.
‘People stand on the neck of each other’, writes Bo.
‘It is evident, that the people once again relax and do as they wont’, writes Lillian.
‘It sticks, unfortunately, completely’, writes Morten on the ‘indkøbssultne danes’.
During Monday’s news conference said Mette Frederiksen also though, that it worried her when she heard the examples of how some danes take it more relaxed. Trades into big groups, planning places to eat easter lunch and forget to keep the distance.
Although it can be pointed to on the busiest indkøbsdage around easter, so has the month of march not always been easy for many of the employees on the floor in supermarkets.
It began with the much talked about ‘hoarders’, but the pressure and the new conditions have generally changed the work of those who are employed in the second frontline, which is dagligvarebutikkerne.
“The past weeks have been a different time to be at work in,” says Christina Winther Andersen, who works in a supermarket in Frederikshavn.
“I was a Saturday have to ask me out at the warehouse a few times to get air. I could not be in the corridors, because there were so many people. It was uncomfortable to think that I could be infected.”
Many supermarkets have extended their opening hours in the holidays, and most stores in the weeks leading up to also already had the påsketilbuddene on the shelves. It is, however, the days right up to, which is expected to be the busiest.
“The worst coming in the holidays. I dread the holidays,” she says
In the majority of the country’s drugstores and supermarkets have introduced håndsprit, plastikhandsker, put marks on the floor to ensure the distance between the customers and protected kassemedarbejderne with plexiglasskærme.
Many customers are also good to observe the rules of keeping distance to each other and be only one person from the household to act in, but that is not all.
“Some hosts out in the air when they walk around in the store, and the others all have their children with them, which goes and licks on things up at the checkout,” says Christina Winther Andersen.
For Karoline Mez, who has worked in Net for six years, was in march also overwhelming.
From one day to the other had you anywhere in mind to keep distance to each other, while at the same time more customers than usual, poured in the shop at any time of day.
The combination often gives rise to quarrels, when she is at work.
“It’s almost on a daily basis, a customer or two yelling at each other out, because they do not keep the distance,” says Karoline.
In the beginning she was even scared of getting infected, because there were so many people around her, but the fear she has now put behind itself. She can’t do anything else.
“I’m there for their sake, so that customers may try to keep distance to me, when I’m working,” she says.
in Order to avoid that the staff go and put the goods up on the shelves among the traders, make a team, it is now the night before the store opens. It did not before coronavirussen.
Much has changed, but the good customer contact is what she misses the most. Customers rush often through their purchases, and most people do not want to exchange words with the employees of the store, which many did before.
Something which, according to Karoline, however, does not change, is the danes ‘ buying habits.
“Easter is a big feast, so customers buy more. Although the prime minister says that one should limit themselves, so will all the shopping for easter yet,” she says.
