Stock piling , panic buying.

[USER1999]

I now have cat food. The mogs are sorted. Panic over.

 

[AmandaJR]

Popped to Tesco for a few provisions for our neighbours. Fruit fine but no eggs and no semi or whole milk so 1% "milk" it is...marginally better than skimmed which was plentiful. Thought after I should have bought some cream to bolster it but that was probably sold out.

Chatted to them at a distance and poor lad has earache still and they're worried about his eardrum perforating but doc won't see him. A friend had some children's paracetomol they gave them so that's something.

Wandered around Tesco just for the laugh really...says a lot about people when you see what's sold out and what's not!

 

[User20204]

Was in a shop for the first time in a week, absolute embarrassment those empty shelves and if you have contributed to it, you should be ashamed of yourself.

 

[User62651]

Abundance of seaweed round here, could be laverbread making soon, Lidl was cleaned out this morning.
Have a fine roe buck who comes into the garden early morns, if things get desperate it could end up in the freezer.

 

[larmen]

When do we think the panic buyers have filled their extra fridges? When do we get back to ‘normal’?

Saying that, our little one is lactose intolerant and they ration the soya milk to 2 packs. But they also sell 6 packet multi packs. That should be OK for about 2 weeks now.

 

[User20204]

When do we think the panic buyers have filled their extra fridges? When do we get back to ‘normal’?

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You ain't seen nothing yet, wait til Friday when we get locked down.

 

[BubbaP]

Haven't posted about gaps on shelves before as seemed to be limited to 2 or 3 items. Popped out tonight and expected some spaces with it being late in the day, but wow - the crazies have been out.
Felt like the supermarket was maybe a quarter stocked. Staff looked shell-shocked.

 

[Fish]

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Dear Robin,
I wrote to you last week to tell you about some of the steps we are taking to support increased demand for food and other essential items.

After I wrote to you last week, many of you replied.

You wrote to share your concerns about our elderly and vulnerable customers and to ask if we can do more to restrict the number of items each person can buy.

I have listened to feedback from you and from Sainsbury's colleagues across the country and wanted to share some of the extra steps we are taking to make sure everyone has access to the items that they need:

A number of you suggested that we reserve an hour in stores for elderly and vulnerable customers.

In response to this request, we will set aside the first hour in every supermarket this Thursday 19th March, for elderly and vulnerable customers.

I hope that you can respect this decision and will work with us as we try our best to help those that need it the most.

If you or an elderly family member, friend or neighbour would like to shop during this hour, please check online for your local supermarket opening hours.

We will also help elderly and vulnerable customers access food online.

From Monday 23rd March, our online customers who are over 70 years of age or have a disability will have priority access to online delivery slots.

We will contact these customers in the coming days with more details.

For any online customer who can travel to our stores, from Monday 23rd March, we will operate an expanded 'click and collect' service.

We are significantly increasing the number of collection sites across the country over the coming days in preparation for this.

Customers can place their order online as usual and pick it up from a collection point in the store car park.

We believe this will also work for people who are self-isolating.

As we work to feed the nation, we are also focusing all of our efforts on getting as much food and other essential items from our suppliers, into our warehouses and onto shelves as we possibly can.

We still have enough food for everyone - if we all just buy what we need for us and our families.

To help us get more essential items onto the shelves, from this Thursday 19th March, we will be closing our cafes and our meat, fish and pizza counters in supermarkets.

This means we can free up warehouse and lorry capacity for products that customers really need.

It will also free up time for our store colleagues to focus on keeping the shelves as well stocked as possible.

I mentioned last week that we had put limits on a very small number of products.

Following feedback from our customers and from our store colleagues, we have decided to put restrictions on a larger number of products.

From tomorrow, Wednesday 18th March, customers will be able to buy a maximum of three of any grocery product and a maximum of two on the most popular products including toilet paper, soap and UHT milk.

We have enough food coming into the system, but are limiting sales so that it stays on shelves for longer and can be bought by a larger numbers of customers.

Finally, I wanted to end by saying a huge thank you to Sainsbury's colleagues across the business.

Everyone is working flat out in difficult circumstances to do their best to serve our customers.

If you're able to say thank you to them when you see them, I know they would hugely appreciate it.
Best wishes

​

Mike

 

[User62651]

Lidl encouraging panic buying?
Took this earlier -

 

[Robster59]

I called in to Sainsburys on the way home yesterday and the fresh food as well as toilet rolls, cleaners, tea bags, wipes, etc. were pretty much all gone.
Every time I walk into a supermarket nowadays I just think of this!

 

[stefanovic]

Every time I walk into a supermarket nowadays I just think of this!

Or this:

 

[SwingsitlikeHogan]

I now have cat food. The mogs are sorted. Panic over.

yup - Pets at Home selling 88 portion packs of our cat's favourite nosh - so they are well sorted for a good while at least. Not that they'll show us any gratitude...bleedin' cats...

...but we love 'em.

 

[ferenezejohn]

The government should have a hit squad hunting down those on eBay and other sites selling items at 5 times the price and more and confiscate the lot.
Scum of the earth these types.

 

[AmandaJR]

Home from Lidl. I just keep chuckling when I see the shelves - mad, mad, mad. Dogs are happy though as cucumbers plentiful and they've already had some. At least I could get some semi-skimmed milk and a couple of bottles of red for David!

 

[chellie]

I had to take daughter as her new fridge freezer has arrived. Supplies of fruit and veg was ok. No loaves of bread, no fresh meat, hardly any milk. Tinned aisles decimated and only two boxes of tea.

Surprised they haven't limited what quantities people can buy.

 

[Robster59]

I can't believe it's taken this long for the supermarkets to start limiting the number of items purchased. This should have been done a week ago.
Yes, people can buy, go out and come back in again but that means they have to do more to have it happen. The supermarkets could use a hand stamp on entering like they do at concerts, etc. Have it managed by Security and make it hard to wash off.

 

[chellie]

I can't believe it's taken this long for the supermarkets to start limiting the number of items purchased. This should have been done a week ago.
Yes, people can buy, go out and come back in again but that means they have to do more to have it happen. The supermarkets could use a hand stamp on entering like they do at concerts, etc. Have it managed by Security and make it hard to wash off.

Yes, it's really peed me off today.

 

[HomerJSimpson]

Went to Sainsburys tonight. Decimated again, No bread, no fresh meat, no pasta/rice, no soups, no frozen meals. Really hope this closing the 24 hour stores to allow shelves to be restocked and the limitations on items helps. A lady who works with HID was at the local Tesco by 6.30 for a 7.00 opening. Car park almost full and when the doors opened, shelves stripped in minutes of the essentials. Very little evidence of people thinking of others

 

[SwingsitlikeHogan]

Went to Sainsburys tonight. Decimated again, No bread, no fresh meat, no pasta/rice, no soups, no frozen meals. Really hope this closing the 24 hour stores to allow shelves to be restocked and the limitations on items helps. A lady who works with HID was at the local Tesco by 6.30 for a 7.00 opening. Car park almost full and when the doors opened, shelves stripped in minutes of the essentials. Very little evidence of people thinking of others

I fear that this is simply a grim manifestation of the country we have gradually ever more become over the last 40yrs. Its not beneficial to be speculating why, or pointing the finger at this that or whatever, at this time - but as posted elsewhere hopefully a real wake up call for us all.

our cupboards are not full, they are not bare, they are normal. We haven’t done any panic buying of food whatsoever. Maybe we should have, but we decided that it just wasn’t who we are - and that there are others needing what we might want. So we didn’t. Might come back and bite us but you know me ... I don’t ‘believe’ it will.

 

[Imurg]

The Mrs is up at her parents and has just been shopping for them - theyre 86 and 84.
She queued outside Asda from 5.45 - queue was 100 yards long.
She's just got out.
Crazy times....