Essential?

They gave me an official paper yesterday stating that I’m an essential worker but I'm wondering if I'll really need it.
 
When people are allowed to go to the grocery store or even the fast food joint couldn’t anyone just say that’s the reason they're out and about? Are they going to pull over people in cars and ask what essential business they're performing or will it just be poorer folks on public transit who are going to be hassled about being out? Lets hope it doesn't come to police checking folks' papers.
 
Where I live it doesn’t seem like very many folks are taking this stay at home order thing very seriously though. While offices and malls are closed, it hasn’t kept people away from the superstore I work at.
 
We are allowed to remain open because we have a pharmacy and our grocery, paper good, and cleaning departments are definitely still needed but I see plenty of folks who seem to be coming through not seeking necessities but seemingly because they need something to do.
 
While our Starbucks seating area is closed I’ve seen young adults hanging out in the lawn furniture in the back of the store. I’ve even seen parents bringing their children in for some toy shopping. Our store is incentivizing this kind of non-essential buying by having a sale going on in the toy department. Is swim suit shopping a necessary activity?
 
Are XBox games essential? We have plenty of people coming in to buy that kind of stuff. When GameStop tried to remain open as an “essential business” in spite of stay at home orders their business licenses were reportedly revoked in Pennsylvania and California because it turns out video games are not essential requirements for life.
 
Not only have they continued to keep these departments open, on certain days it seems like restocking the shelves of the toy aisles has been more important than the food department. The hoards of folks buying up everything in sight has died down a bit, but as you can imagine we have yet to catch up from everything over in grocery. Despite the fact that there is food sitting in the back of the store we use human power to put more toys out.

Some coworkers in an online group I’m a part of have suggested closing off areas of the store that sell items which wouldn’t be considered essential in and of themselves but it seems our chain is happy to use the grocery and pharmacy departments as a Trojan horse to keep selling that stuff.