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My Father, 75 has not travelled more than 1 sq. kms in the past 100 days ever since the first lockdown was announced from 25 March onwards. We discouraged him to even ride his scooter, so he would then ride much lesser in his beloved bicycle which is older than me. He would visit my house which is two streets away every 2 days to see my kids, spend 10 mins, share some foodie- goodies sent by my Mother and go back only to lock themselves within the confines of the house. Civil obedience is one thing we have strictly followed all along. Yet, when both my Parents tested positive for Corona last month, we were not only scared and shocked but also surprised. Because he has simply not traveled around and no one other than me can vouch for it. So how did he contract it?
When I traced back his visits, it was either to the nearby supermarket or to the local grocer. Nowhere else. And this particular shop has been in the thick of action ever since the lockdown started. The Franchisee’s snooty and awkward acts such as shouting at the staff in public view (all these years) among other things is no surprise. What was, was that the A/c is usually in full blow. There is hardly any crowd monitoring and absolutely NO social distancing. I am, for a moment not saying it is the entire fault of the shopkeeper, rather lack of cooperation from shoppers, suppliers and proper coordination from the staff of the store. Things went to the worse in subsequent weeks and finally the Tamil Nadu Government has enforced yet another “Strict Lockdown” after the state started revealing 2,000+ Positive Cases for a fortnight in a row and Chennai contributing for at least 80% of these numbers.
While Restaurants and many other Commercial Establishments have opened up all over India since mid-May, the biggest challenge seems to be with Grocery Retail where consumers have to frequent to buy their daily needs. With many middle-class families running low on cash flow, thanks to partial salary receipts or loss of their own business income, the shopping cart is usually less than half full during the so called “Pandemic Shopping”. There has been a huge shift from discretionary purchases to rather focusing on bare essentials; larger packs of snacks or biscuits which were meant to be “Cost savers” now have fewer takers; there has been a surge in demand for kitchen pantry rather than the breakfast table – more of rice, pulses, atta, dals and ghee and lesser sales of Cream Biscuits or those high-end confectionary. The trend is visible over last three months data and is quite obvious. Coffee & Tea have sold boatloads, btw.