I mentioned this in the developers cover-19 thread, but think it’s better here, I think social distancing and suppression is quite possibly one of the most important things we should do, but I feel food supply is a close second - because if people start going to shops and can’t buy food, it might quickly lead to social disorder.
Here our govt has said they’ve spoken to retailers, but I really do feel they need to do more. Retailers need to play their part, perhaps by:
- Online orders only - so they can track what people have purchased
- Retailer working together, perhaps by checking with a govt run database of food orders placed by specific addresses via ANY supermarket (to prevent people bypassing individual supermarket orders - i.e placing the the same order with multiple supermarkets)
- Maybe using previous customer records to work out the supply they need - and limit orders to around that (with a small leeway)