Shoppers may get two hour time limit when visiting malls

[samsensam]

6 minutes ago, tribalfusion001 said:

These are probably the same people who don't touch door handles when entering and leaving a mall/bar toilet. Sometimes I don't bother washing my hands if I see these people in the mall/bar toilet as I know it disgusts them 555.

 

such behaviour disgusts pretty much everyone.

[mr mr]

i'm  willing to bet the vast majority of those wanting the social distancing and closures and all this nonsense to continue are old people. 

 

i wish there was more effect on the elderly population. sick to death of the world they created and ruined for us younger folk.

[tribalfusion001]

5 minutes ago, Why Me said:

Lordie, no need to try. You are disgusting. That residual pee on your hand will find its way to your face, food and loved ones. Ok, scratch the last no way you have any.

Hardly going to die with a bit of pee on your hand are you????

[mr mr]

7 minutes ago, Why Me said:

Lordie, no need to try. You are disgusting. That residual pee on your hand will find its way to your face, food and loved ones. Ok, scratch the last no way you have any.

but isn't pee pee sterile ?

 

[tribalfusion001]

Just now, mr mr said:

i'm  willing to bet the vast majority of those wanting the social distancing and closures and all this nonsense to continue are old people. 

 

i wish there was more effect on the elderly population. sick to death of the world they created and ruined for us younger folk.

Well the current crisis does seem to be thinning the numbers.

[tribalfusion001]

Just now, mr mr said:

but isn't pee pee sterile ?

 

People drink it when there is nothing else available to stay alive.

[mr mr]

Just now, tribalfusion001 said:

Well the current crisis does seem to be thinning the numbers.

any way to speed it up then ? these fossils need to go.

[Why Me]

1 minute ago, mr mr said:

but isn't pee pee sterile ?

 

Might be right. Might even be sanitizing. Maybe tribal's not as dumb as he looks.

[Kadilo]

6 minutes ago, bluesofa said:

I can hear the in-store service announcement now: "Please buy harder and faster before your two hours is up."

You sure you’re in the Mall?

[redwood1]

You can be sure they are mulling over some intrusive police state tracking app that they will want on your phone.....And the sheep will be lining up by the thousands to be the first ones to put the new cool tracking ap on their phone...... 

[Logosone]

Central Festival time keeping lady: "So sorry Sir, you overstay by 25 minutes. Will be 40,000 Baht fine. Please pay information."

 

 

[Kadilo]

1 minute ago, redwood1 said:

You can be sure they are mulling over some intrusive police state tracking app that they will want on your phone.....And the sheep will be lining up by the thousands to be the first ones to put the new cool tracking ap on their phone...... 

Over in the UK they have lumped it on the Isle of Wight to be the Guinea Pigs. Low number of habitants, lower infection rate. Rolled out today. They have had a good uptake apparently but lots of sceptism re where it will all end. 

[fishtank]

More than long enough to buy a few beers.

[elliss]

 

 That said on my regularly shopping visits to Tops ,

     I see many farlangs wandering aimlessly,  just looking not buying , so sad.

     Better they isolate ,  with a  Kindle or two , forever . Rip.

 

 

 

Edited May 5, 2020 by elliss

[blackcab]

I don't see anything to stop people walking out after 1 hour 59 minutes and then walking back in again for another round.

 

Which is why it won't work.

[lostmebike]

2 hours ago, sprq said:

And if you've overstayed, what then? A fine, jail time, what? Enforced by who?

" ... by who?"

 

The very same people that have enforced the booze ban so well and subsequently stopped all mom's and pop's stores selling booze illegally. 

 

The very same agency that have enforced the social distancing rules so well (sans rural Thailand, poo yai's and their friends and family, and of course the wealthy)

 

The very same agency that stops kids riding bikes without helmets and licenses, and the very same "force" that comes down hard on man-children drunkenly speeding around town and owning the outside lanes on the highways. 

 

Why do you need to ask? ????

[hotandsticky]

1 minute ago, blackcab said:

I don't see anything to stop people walking out after 1 hour 59 minutes and then walking back in again for another round.

 

Which is why it won't work.

 

 

Now, THAT'S the sort of lateral thinking that has got this country to where it is today.

[connda]

3 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

At a media briefing on Tuesday, Prayuth Chan-Ocha said Thailand was preparing for the next stage of opening.

 

Some of the measures being considered by the Cabinet concerns the reopening of shopping malls, with people being given a two hour window in which to do their shopping.

Dance little people, dance for your masters.....

[Ventenio]

I wanted to watch a movie.  Run time was 1:58.  I ran upstairs, watched 90% of the movie, and ran out.

 

the ending isn't a big deal, i guess. 

[Why Me]

13 minutes ago, blackcab said:

I don't see anything to stop people walking out after 1 hour 59 minutes and then walking back in again for another round.

 

Which is why it won't work.

Actually a very good point. Out one door and in the other. No way they can prevent this without entering people's baat prachachons into a computer.

[Satcommlee]

4 hours ago, Greenhill said:

Has he got any idea how malls would control a maximum number of people entering, when they've probsbly got a number of entrances?  Also how would they control the 2 hour time limit?   Solutions will be most interesting, I'm sure!

Isn't it obvious???  They open only one entrance and let the "Crowd" wait outside.

[Chelseafan]

5 hours ago, bkk6060 said:

Or, 

Maybe they figure within 2 hours most people have enough brains and sense to decide what they want to buy.

 

You haven't met my wife...

 

[jackinthebox]

6 hours ago, timendres said:

Thai COVID-19 policies almost as ridiculous as the Photoshopping above.

Prayuth M.C. Escher....

[Creasy]

I don't get how they will police this.

 

Say there is one thousand people in a mall.

Do they all get personal minders with stop watches to keep an eye on the time ?

 

Or does each shopper get an electric collar that starts shocking you at the 1 hour 45 minute mark and gradually gets stronger up to the two hour mark ?

 

Or maybe, the shoppers can be like Keanu Reeves in the film Speed. Plant a small bomb on each shopper with a two hour countdown. Get out before two hours or explode.  Sounds reasonable and achievable in Thailand .

[metisdead]

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[bodga]

10 hours ago, Oldie said:

They do this at many shopping places where you can park your car. Nothing new. After a certain time you will have to pay. 

And  those  that walk  in?

[bodga]

9 hours ago, CRUNCHER said:

To all of the whingers the answer is simple.  Don't open malls for another month.

 

Some people just do not get where we are at.  A fresh outbreak of cases and we will be back to square one.

 a  whole  54  deaths, wow!

[mr mr]

will we need to do 90 minute reporting to the mall office ? 

[JensenZ]

11 hours ago, hotandsticky said:

 

 

Do you not even think there is some merit in the idea,

 

 

These are unprecedented circumstances you know.

Going by malls in Pattaya that require lots of tourists to survive (Central & Terminal 21), no there's no merit. Some shops or restaurants may do ok, but most will not be able to cover their running costs with such a ridiculous policy. Most shops weren't doing well in pre-covid-19 times, when there was no customer limit.

 

The government continues to come up with more dumb ideas everyday, of how they can further destroy businesses. My prediction, (I don't wish this as I enjoy mall shopping) is that the big malls will soon resemble empty canions after they reopen. The only way to slow this down will be for the landlords to offer free rent, or very cheap rent for an extended period of time, and that won't save them all either as most of all they need spending tourists to survive.

Edited May 5, 2020 by JensenZ

[Borzandy]

11 hours ago, YetAnother said:

what if you are in a long checkout line at the 2 hour point ? typical thai thought process (lack of)

As Thais go to shopping mall only for air-con that they don't have at home.....no checkout line.