Amnesty Day!

I was in Tesco in Luton Road Dunstable today as the 2 minutes silence approached. At about 10.50am a Tesco idiot announced there would be 2 minutes silence for Amnesty day!! The 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month has and always be Armistice Day.
At 11am a barely audible  announcement came over that now was the time. A very half arsed silence then took place. Most Tesco staff stopped and as far as I could see nothing was going through the tills. Some people stopped  many didn't and to my surprise alot who didn't stop appeared to be at least a generation nearer to WW2 than I. It was truly one of the worst 2 minutes silence's I have witnessed. Frankly I wish Tesco hadn't bothered, it was an embarrassment.
There's a point to argue about, should everyone observe the 2 minutes silence? Maybe something of what was being fought for ,particularly in WW2, was a right to free speech and thought, not somewhere where you must observe certain things. 
Harry Patch  the last Tommy from WW1 thought it was all theatre and show on the 11th. His personal Remembrance Day  was a day in September when he was wounded and two close friends killed whilst manning their Lewis gun in the trenches.
It will obviously diminish in thought and in society as the years go on and we lose all the veterans from both world wars, though the March Past at the Cenotaph in London is as big as it ever has been with other organisations joining it. I did think with all the WW1 centenary commemoration's it may have meant alittle more today.