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by JimW » Thu Apr 09, 2020 5:33 pm
Good day. Speaking of grocery pick up, if you are not in one of the high risk groups I recommend going into grocery stores and buying your groceries yourself, just do not 'dilly dally", shop with purpose. My teenage daughter works at our local Walmart in Smiths Falls, she normally works about 15-20 hours a week, the last few weeks she is over 40 hours a week.
Some days she is picking orders off the shelves for pick up and other days she is delivering orders to cars. Not too long ago, you could order and your would be ready in about 2 days, now that cannot keep up, they are getting a lot of customers driving from Ottawa for grocery pick ups now.
They have 4 staff in the grocery pick up department off, one in self-isolation for the 10 days so far, that was in close contact with a customer that after the encounter admitted they just returned from holidays in NY and 3 others that are at home because they live with people that are high risk for the virus. The store closes at 8 pm, they pick orders until 11 pm sometimes and the morning order picking staff come in at 4 am. They just cannot keep up with the orders.
Also a piece of advise, from my daughter, when until you get the email saying your grocery order is ready for pick up, so you do not end up waiting in the store parking lot for 3 hours, then yelling and taking all your weeks of anger out on some teenager, just trying to make some money for their education. lol. It is bad some places now, but it will only get worse when workers making barely over minimum wage get fed up, or parents like myself determine the risk of letting my daughter work to serve the community, is not worth it and tell her to quiet.
On a happier note, with my free time at home recovering from surgery, which is going well, I start rehab, at home, next week, I just signed up to take my Pesticide Safety Course online, I had my licence many years ago, but let it expire. I mainly want it so I can buy the "good" rat poison, if needed and to be able to get undiluted Round Up pesticide, which is not a good thing I know. But I just use Round Up to spot spray the poison parsnip directly on individual plants, so minimal harm done. My 7 acres are almost free of parsnip and I would like to keep it that way.
Slowly working on building a couple new chicken breeding pens, cannot lift large pieces of wood let, so the process is slow.
Starting some seeds later today, which "later today" is about now, so I guess I better get doing something.
Hope everyone had a good day.
Jim
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