I am old enough to qualify but couldn’t be bothered. My brother did once, because he happened to be out and about. He said it was great with so few people there. So it’s not as if you are disadvantaging anyone else.
If it makes you feel guilty, but you want to take advantage, then only buy things that you don’t really want.
How long before there are obviously sick people out shopping who deny they have corona? People who live alone, are ill, but need food.
This happened In my local Walmart
Short version masked man handed cashier not demanding money and if he didn’t receive it he would start shooting customers.
I shop and do a wide variety of services for seniors. Just unbelievable .
Meanwhile less than 1/2 mile at my local HEB an elderly lady, someone decided to take something they wanted from her cart. That did not go well, this is Military town less than a half mile from Fort Hood. Also a good ole boy town populated with many men and women who still respect elderly people and women and who still say yes mamn and open doors.
I don’t have a link for this one…
The senior-only shopping hours at stores in our area are generally from 6:00 am to 7:00 am. I am dead asleep at that time. So senior hours are out of the question!!
I was thinking about it, but then I read that our local stores are most busy during those times. So Ill wait til mid-afternoon.
I’m late 60s but healthy; I’ll leave the Senior Hour for people my age who are acting their age…
It’s called Senior Hour, not Seniors With Disabilities Or Other Underlying Conditions Hour. Would you feel bad taking advantage of Denny’s Senior Menu, as well? You’re at a greater risk than me whether you have health problems in addition to being older, or not. Take advantage of the protection being offered to you.
How exactly do things like that work? I’m 62, and I’ve never taken advantage of any old-people deals. Do they check ID?
If you’re lucky they do! 
Usually they just look at you and agree you’re an old fart.
I’m about ready to start carrying a small spray bottle with me everywhere I go and every time some jackass crowds within range I’m gonna politely say “Achoo” and mist them right in the face. Then say “Congratulations, if I had COVID, you’d be infected now. Stay the fuck BACK.” Probably get me punched but dayum, it makes me smile to even think about doing this.
I know the feeling. I could never win. I did get carded when I was 25, and I don’t get carded now.
One good thing about those senior shopping hours is that they’re the first hour of the day. If stocking happened overnight, everything you need should be in stock, and you get first pick before The Masses clean the shelves again. This is good because hopefully it keeps you from having to come to the store more often, to check to see if that thing you needed is available yet. Also the store should be cleanest at this hour.
Absolutely sucks that it’s SO early (I would never be able to get up that early!) but it is really the best situation for vulnerable people.
I cannot believe y’all are complaining about the early time of day. Holy crap!
I know several older folks who have trouble sleeping at night and aren’t up and around at 7 AM. Even my mom, who’s always been an early riser, isn’t typically out of the house until 10 or so anymore.
These hours spread out the population density. The stores felt it was socially acceptable (and maybe there are good reasons for using age) to use age to spread people out. They could have used hair color (grey goes first! 
) or even and odd birthdays. There is a benefit to lowering the population density in the store. So yes, it is definitely morally and practicably OK for you to take advantage of the special times.
I read in China they used families, as in only one person from each family could go to the store every 3 days.
The mechanism doesn’t matter. The goal is to lower population density.
I get what everyone is saying, but I posed this question from a different perspective.
My thought was that this was instituted to make it easier for seniors to shop without younger, more nimble citizens clogging up the aisle or being elbowed to and fro by hooligans.
The social distancing aspect makes sense too.
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Our store has instituted this policy. (And the chain in our region has different hours from what the national HQ has announced. So check on this first.)
Sure, I’m not disabled or anything but I’m running low on bread. So I went in this morning. Got my bread and a couple other items. No guilt whatsoever.
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The parking lot had a lot of cars. There were 4 beefy guys guarding the one open door. The lines at the checkouts were really long. I did the self-checkout. Only 1 set of them was open. The clerk there was non-stop busy. Turns out some seniors don’t do well with the tech, etc.)
As I was leaving, the hour was about to end. So there was a good sized group of non-seniors waiting to get in. They all crowded together around the entrance/exit with barely enough room for me to get out.
Social distancing in America? We’re doomed.
I wish there was an option for people buying things for an elderly relative or a quarantined person at home.
A friend of mine, who is 80, went to the senior hour at the same store I go to. He said it was very crowded - more crowded than the non-senior hour I went to - and that the baggers did not want to touch his reusable bags.
I think I did better at social distancing when I went.
I went to self checkout and I always bag my own bags when possible. I wrote a paper on the bin packing problem in grad school so I consider myself an expert.
My issue is young (apparently) healthy people, a whole family of them, who dragged Gramma out of bed so they could take advantage. I really doubt Gramma is buying all that beer and nachos. But supposedly they are the caretakers who need to accompany Gramma. One store here has set a limit of 1 caretaker per old person.
Aw, hell, my store had a couple of obviously sick people every week even before this started. We still get 'em.
Do they have covid? Who the hell knows when you can’t get a test unless you’re practically dying and still have to wait a week for results?