Greeting Cards And Covid

[malagabob]

Wife went into a card shop to buy a titled birthday card for our granddaughter. Choose it, Paid for it, on the way out she realised it was for daughter. Apparently it was mixed up in the pile for granddaughters.Told the staff member. That’s ok just put it back. Get the right one if it’s the same price just go. Sorted. Went to leave. Manager became aware. Asked where she’d put the first card. Back in the rack. You can’t do that we’ve got to clean it before it’s put back. Went back into the shop. Identified the card. Sorted left. Wife was telling me this. Immediately I said well that’s a bit stupid. What does everybody do when buying cards. Pick a card up, read the verse, put it back ,pick up another. Is there a sign No Handling The Cards.

[Buenchico]

Obviously I can't comment on the individual shop (as you've not mentioned the company) but many firms do have signs displayed saying things like "Please hand any shoes you've tried on to a member of staff. Do not replace them on the shelf". I've seen similar signs in quite a range of different shops.

Other stores though, such as Morrison's, largely get around the problem by asking customers to use hand sanitiser after they've handled anything on their shelves (irrespective of whether they're buying it or not), as well as when entering and leaving the store.

[Sam1960]

Some make it up as they go along, whilst others are just inebriated by the sound of their own verbosity

[New Judge]

Greeting Card shops which will not allow customers to handle cards will not sell any cards.

The chances of a person transmitting the virus onto a greetings card is very low. The chances of somebody contracting the virus by picking up such a card is incredibly low.

All shops that I have visited have santizer at the door which customers are urged to use both on entry and exit.

Another example of Covid-mania.

[Old_Geezer]

It's all a nonsense. If you pick up a virus from an item, well you're going to wash your hands as soon as you get back aren't you ? And not planning to stick your fingers in your mouth, nose, eye, etc. too beforehand. If that fussed keep sanitiser in your car.

[Peter Pedant]

onlh a health problem if your grand daughter stuffs the eventual card p her nose on arrival

[Peter Pedant]

greeting cards are well kn own to be such a source of heavy load infection with covid
that the editor assures me that in her home town
they are frequently sold at a discount with paired condolence cards - so sorry for your covid loss ....

[Hopkirk]

The manager should stop anyone coming into the shop, in case they touch anything.

[Stephen_G]

We've got signs up in our shop saying something like

"To try and stop the rate of infection, please take only what you need"

You should see the number of people who pick up the doormats and lay them on the floor and then put them back on the racks. It's the same with the floor and wall Tiles.

[diddlydo]

If a shop is that paranoid about customers touching items they should operate on a "click and collect" basis only. The mad world is going even madder.

[douglas9401]

'I got this card to send a hug
Please don't catch the Covid bug
It may have been returned to shelf
In which case isolate yourself'

A greeting-face card.

[New Judge]

//You should see the number of people who pick up the doormats and lay them on the floor and then put them back on the racks. It's the same with the floor and wall Tiles.//

Indeed. Because that's what people do when they go shopping - they examine the goods. It's the one thing that online suppliers cannot provide. Take that away and they might as well shut up shop - as many have.

[emmie]

people handle goods in supermarkets, so why the problem elsewhere

[New Judge]

There is no problem elsewhere, emmie (anyway, no greater problem). It only rears its head when nonsense like this is reported. At the start of all this Waterstones proposed having "book marshals" who would patrol their shops and remove any books that customers had touched. They (the books, not the marshals) would then be placed in "quarantine" for three days. I think that idea got quietly binned (possibly because many of their branches quickly became denuded of books or they ran out of space out the back to quarantine them).

As an aside, I'd be interested to learn how the card shop "cleans" the cards that customers have touched.

[Peter Pedant]

// At the start of all this Waterstones proposed having "book marshals"//

in Cornwall - you know where they want your monnay but not you
a year or so ago - I asked to see a cornwall guidebook out of its plazzy wrapper
and she said no - they are all alike so dont take it out
and I said - - - oh I'll have one for Demark please
and she went wha (*)
and I said - you said they were all the same
I didnt buy

(*) actually it was a standard AB - foo what dat den. what he say den - the reader can fill in all the bits