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Shops open in Brixton:

Coldharbour Lane
Opposite the Barrier Block:
Payless (via door serving hatch)
Lambeth Mini Mart

Electric Avenue
Almost all of the small greengrocers/butchers

Market Row
That wine place
Nour

Brixton Village
A handful of Fruit and Veg units
 
Update - Shops open in Brixton:

Atlantic Ave
Supermarket (by Wahaca) - good stocks of kitchen roll, loo roll, latex gloves etc

Central Brixton
Iceland: Limited numbers. actually very pleasurable to shop there. Queue time - 5 mins
Poundland - Limited numbers: only 15 people in at a time, although impossible to maintain social distancing at the self service tills. Queue time - 5 mins
Sainsbury's - Limited numbers: : only one person allowed from anyone who is deemed to be a 'couple' by the stroppy bouncer. Queue time - 3 mins
(good stocks in all the shops)

Coldharbour Lane
Opposite the Barrier Block:
Payless (via door serving hatch)
Lambeth Mini Mart

Electric Avenue
Almost all of the small greengrocers/butchers

Market Row
That wine place
Nour

Brixton Village
A handful of Fruit and Veg units
 
What are stocks like in Nour? I am nearly out of pasta and rice, and haven't seen any for sale for three weeks...

And thanks for the reporting. Reassuring to know I can get fresh fruit and veg in market row.
 
billythefish said:
What are stocks like in Nour? I am nearly out of pasta and rice, and haven't seen any for sale for three weeks...

And thanks for the reporting. Reassuring to know I can get fresh fruit and veg in market row.
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Here's how it looked yesterday in Nour. Not super packed and no empty shelves I could see, but I only popped in for a second.

Brixton shopping in a coronoavirus lockdown: Electric Avenue open as usual, quiet scenes in Brixton Village & Market Row, 24th March 2020
 
Most of the supermarkets are operating a ‘one item per customer only’ now, so I would guess mornings are the best time to find stuff. I was surprised to find eggs at around midday but there were only four left so I’m sure by lunchtime they would have been gone.
 
T & P said:
Most of the supermarkets are operating a ‘one item per customer only’ now, so I would guess mornings are the best time to find stuff. I was surprised to find eggs at around midday but there were only four left so I’m sure by lunchtime they would have been gone.
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How does that work n Lidl with twenty self checkout machines minded by one member of staff then?
Obviously if you buy alcohol there is an automatic lock - but otherwise?
 
T & P said:
Most of the supermarkets are operating a ‘one item per customer only’ now, so I would guess mornings are the best time to find stuff. I was surprised to find eggs at around midday but there were only four left so I’m sure by lunchtime they would have been gone.
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There was plenty of general stock in Iceland and Brixton Sainsbury's (by the tube) around 5pm today, although I didn't look for eggs. Only a few items seemed restricted to one per customer.
 
This will impact some of the arches in Brixton

Blackstone has been accused of putting thousands of small businesses in the UK at risk of collapse after refusing to waive rents for tenants forced to shut owing to the coronavirus lockdown. The US private equity firm became the UK’s largest small business landlords in 2018 when it and London-based developer Telereal Trillium, owned by the Pears family, bought thousands of Victorian railway arches from Network Rail for almost £1.5bn.

Tenants had sought a rent free period but the Arch Company, the vehicle through which Blackstone and Telereal own the arches, has instead offered to defer payments on the arches by three months, which the businesses say will push many of them into bankruptcy. The landlord will provide “several million pounds of additional support to individual tenants who are facing extreme hardship,” a spokesman for the company said.

Will Brett, a spokesperson for Guardians of the Arches, an association of tenants in the arches at sites across the UK, said: “Network Rail is cancelling rents, as are a number of landlords in the private sector. Blackstone has taken on this public estate and is asking small businesses to take on the risk of the crisis. “If you’re a mechanic in Bethnal Green, the prospect of piling up three months of debt to the landlord with no idea what the government package might look like is impossible,” he added. “A lot of businesses are weighing up whether they'll have to go bankrupt.”

The Arch Company said it was “focused on helping the small independent businesses across our arches community through this crisis” while they waited for government help. The UK government has been scrambling to arrange a support package for small businesses, including grants for the smallest companies, which may help towards rent bills. However, with quarterly rents due on Wednesday, commercial landlords have been locked in negotiations with tenants. Rent deferrals, aimed at affording businesses some breathing space before have to paying the sum in full, have been a typical offer from landlords in the coronavirus crisis.

www.ft.com

Blackstone’s refusal to waive rents comes under fire

Railway arch tenants say private equity group is putting businesses at risk
www.ft.com www.ft.com
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I've had to post this on FB to several people not understanding why it's not OK for this guy to fly his kite in the park.

People aren’t supposed to be treating the lockdown like a free holiday and it’s not the time to go off enjoying your hobbies in a public space.

Several parks have already been closed down because of people acting like this. The government guidance is quite clear on what you should be doing when you go out, and spending an afternoon flying a big kite in the park is categorically not on that list
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friendofdorothy said:
Give it a rest, both of you. The more these threads are used for bickering the harder it becomes to wade through for the essential info.
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There was a modest queue outside the big Sainsbury's on Water Lane today. All of the big stores are operating this policy. It's actually rather pleasant once you're inside and there's loads of room and no queues at the tills. I guess if you arrive at a peak time it might be a pain of the arse, but I've only seen small lines outside.

(*I've deleted the bickering posts)
 
I was in Nisa today in LJ people were keeping away from each other in the queue. It was also less panic buying going on. Tescos in LJ were even more strict. Only letting in a small number of people at a time.
 
Has anyone been having broadband problems?

I was streaming a film last night and it was struggling. Today its been alright.

In day the router is blinking a lot. Now its good connection.

Been reading so many people at home that the countries broadband is not coping.
 
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