Barnsley police cordon off supermarket vegetable aisles as clampdown on non essential shopping tightens
2020-04-11
Police in Barnsley have taken the unusual step of condoning off some aisles in local supermarkets after it emerged that a small but significant number of people have been using their shopping trip as an excuse to buy fruit and vegetables. As the Coronavirus crisis continues, people are being told to cut out all non-essential shopping.
“This is incredibly irresponsible behaviour.” said supermarket manager Kevin Clunge as he restocked the pot noodle shelves at the Wombwell branch of Tesco. With Greggs and KFC being shut, people around here are desperately short of saturated fat. These idiots are taking up shopping time that they need need. It’s just selfish beyond belief.”
The Bugle has also learned that in addition to cordoning off fruit and vegetable aisles, police are setting up roadblocks in the area around supermarkets in an attempt to stamp down hard on the practice.
“We stopped one man at a roadblock and searched his shopping.” chief inspector Danny Dingle told us. “In amongst the frozen pizzas, pies and other pastry-based products we found a cabbage. A cabbage! He said it was for his rabbit. We checked and he doesn’t even have a rabbit. I don’t know what’s wrong with people.”
As The Bugle went to press, there were calls to relax the restiction for Limes which can be sliced and jammed in the neck of a Mexican lager bottle.
