Stock piling , panic buying.

We always buy our bog rolls on mass from Costco, so technically we were already stockpiling them before it was fashionable.
 
Went into my local Tesco hypermarket this morning. The loo roll aisle was fully stocked and there were plenty of paracetamol. Out of curiosity I was glancing at shoppers trolleys and there wasn't a toilet roll in sight. I'm wondering if people are too embarrassed to buy them at the moment or they can't move in their homes because of the mountain of Andrex.
 
It can't be that bad because when I went Tesco yesterday they had bog roll on offer
If was that much in demand wouldn't sell it off cheap
 
Wandered into the big Boots in the Oracle in Reading. No paracetamol but go down the street to the smaller store or the Superdrug and it was in stock. Maybe people have reached their limit and their houses are crammed with more pills than a local dealer
 
Grant85 said:
It's stupid and selfish.

I remember about 3 years ago there was a big snowfall in March. It was obvious there was going to be a shortage of milk / fresh produce.

On day 1 I walked round to Aldi in the snow and got a bag full of stuff for a couple of nice meals as I would be working from home and not going into town.

The 2nd day I went back round (it was obvious by this time shops weren't getting all the deliveries) there was 2 woman with a trolley full of as many litres of milk as it would hold. Probably 50 litres of milk. Basically cleared out the supply for the whole shop.
Don't really care about their situation, whether they were running a care home or a nursery, buying to sell on or to give to friends / neighbours etc. it was stunningly selfish to think this was acceptable behaviour.

At times like this everyone has to moderate their behaviour and ultimately everyone has to be careful with their resources and accept you might have to make things last a bit longer.
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Strongly disagree with the bit in bold. Two years ago when we had snow we went to the shops and got a dozen (ish) each of 4 pint cartons of milk, loaves of bread, packs of eggs, coffee, tea and other essentials and then me and my two boys took it all around our local area in a trolley knocking on doors of our elderly neighbours to give it out to those that couldn't get out to the shops. Everything was given away free to anyone that said they needed something. Not everyone filling their trolley is a selfish bell-end, some people are trying to look out for those around them that are less fortunate.
 
ColchesterFC said:
Strongly disagree with the bit in bold. Two years ago when we had snow we went to the shops and got a dozen (ish) each of 4 pint cartons of milk, loaves of bread, packs of eggs, coffee, tea and other essentials and then me and my two boys took it all around our local area in a trolley knocking on doors of our elderly neighbours to give it out to those that couldn't get out to the shops. Everything was given away free to anyone that said they needed something. Not everyone filling their trolley is a selfish bell-end, some people are trying to look out for those around them that are less fortunate.
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