During the shut down now in force we can all go out to buy necessary food.I was in Lidl today & collected up my items in a shopping bag from home to go to the checkout.My thought for this was,just how many hands have been on the handle of a shopping trolley,in any supermarket.I did see the empty shelves being washed down but when are the trollies ever given the same treatment? There must be hundreds of similar examples like petrol pump handles or opening the door to a Health Clinic.

That is why people are being advised to wear gloves. Also I understand that Mercadona are providing hand sanitizer to people before they enter the stores.

Rosemary

It is simple, look after your own health.

It would actually be sensible to provide it as you leave the store as well. Sanitiser gives no long term protection, it just kills what you already have on your hands.

Not in our Mercadonna as of this morning when I went. I used a pair of the " fruit and veg" gloves. did the job!
Sorry this was a reply to Rosemary's post

I do not know whether they are actually putting this into practice in all Mercadonas and also whether they will provide the sanitizer as people leave as well. This information came from someone who had talked to a manager.

Rosemary

Dialprix supermarket in Benidorm will only allow about 10 shoppers in at once then 1 out, 1 in. There is a fella on the door giving out rubber gloves as you enter.

The Farmacia is only allowing 1 out, 1 in and the people are queuing at 3 feet apart.

A bit of a ghost town here in Benidorm at the moment.

Steve

Eroski in Gibraltar have a shopping trolley full of disposable gloves at their entrance for everyone to help themselves

Same in Abruzzo, sanitiser sometimes provided but always gloves. We have our own supply of gloves-and use them.

Just buy your own supply of gloves?

If you can, they seem to be in as short supply as hand sanitizer.

Normally I'd buy them from a China Merca but they are all closed around here.

I presume it's OK to ride my bike to the supermarket?
Are you going to your nearest supermarket or another further away for whatever reason? We have a Dia in the village which I never go to preferring Aldi and Mercadona in the next town about 7km distant.

Perhaps you should speak with your nearest Local Police office

Personally if DIA stocked what I need that would do for me. However surely how you get to the shop you need isn't defined be it walking driving or cycling? Tandem for you and your wife could be an issue as my understanding only one of you should be out shopping?

I'm angling for an excuse for a bike ride. A 14km round trip to Aldi isn't enough but better than the 2km there and back to Dia!