Stock piling , panic buying.

Went first thing to the shop rather than later, for the normal weekly shop. Only had a couple of loo rolls left at home, as wife didn't manage to get any on last 2 weeks shop. Had already decided we had some old rags that were going to washed and cut up, or use shower, why did I take the bidet out :ROFLMAO:

As we arrived a guy was walking out with only toilet rolls and washing powder, weird world we live in at the moment.

Went straight to loo aisle(!):oops:, bit lucky as weren't many left and managed to get a pack for us and a pack for the daughter as they hadn't managed to get any either. And by the time we went to the till they had all gone.

To early for normal bread, so none on the shelf(fresh bread, crackers still there). Its a cracker week for me. ;) Not much rice, pasta and long life milk, had to give the pack of rice we managed to buy to sons parents as when he come home, said they have none.

However managed to get the normal weekly shopping apart from a couple of items, We have decided we hope not have to go for a few weeks and just eat what we have left in the cupboard. And hope the madness settles down but its been like it for 2-3 weeks now. No one seem to have silly full up trollies, so maybe it is settling down apart from the longer term items and loo rolls:ROFLMAO:.

Its all a bit mad.
 
Just been to Sainsburys. Never seen it look so empty.

Very little fruit and veg (no potatoes, no carrots, no onions), no fresh meat, no bread, no pasta, no rice and of course no loo roll.

Spoken to one of the staff, she was telling me at 6am the shelves were bursting full, but 9am they were empty. Depressing.
 
rudebhoy said:
Just been to Sainsburys. Never seen it look so empty.

Very little fruit and veg (no potatoes, no carrots, no onions), no fresh meat, no bread, no pasta, no rice and of course no loo roll.

Spoken to one of the staff, she was telling me at 6am the shelves were bursting full, but 9am they were empty. Depressing.
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I'm sure Sainsburys were restricting the 1st hour only to the oldies today who shortly may not be going out anywhere, so hopefully they would have got what they needed before the selfish hoarders descended.
 
We've got food for a round 2.5 weeks but we always run at that level because living rurally and being caught out in 82 with just a tin of beans and half a loaf when we were snowed in for 6 days and only got by with my boss feeding us .
HiD stopped off at Lidl on way home from golf for some bread and says shelves were pretty empty. On Sunday she'll check out Tesco's as she's a Nurse and they're opening up an hour before for NHS workers.
Sure the media are partly to blame for a lot of this panic but why on why if Italy is not panic buying why are we :mad::mad:
 
I was back from Tesco at 6.45 in the am. Ridiculous! Little one needs Calpol so needs must. Luckily after failing for 3 days in a row at ‘normal’ times was fortunate to get a bottle. Just took the one mind as there’ll be others in similar positions and worried about their children. If needed I can pop out again early doors in a few days time. Must admit I did consider another bottle, but quickly came to my senses.

The place was rammed with lunatics ransacking the place. Trollies piled high as far as the eye could see. Selfish and just plain stupid. The staff deserve medals for dealing with such numpties.
 
Fromtherough said:
I was back from Tesco at 6.45 in the am. Ridiculous! Little one needs Calpol so needs must. Luckily after failing for 3 days in a row at ‘normal’ times was fortunate to get a bottle. Just took the one mind as there’ll be others in similar positions and worried about their children. If needed I can pop out again early doors in a few days time. Must admit I did consider another bottle, but quickly came to my senses.

The place was rammed with lunatics ransacking the place. Trollies piled high as far as the eye could see. Selfish and just plain stupid. The staff deserve medals for dealing with such numpties.
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Its more the fact that it was rammed that I see to be the real problem - totally ignoring very strong request from the PM and all experts for us to practice social separation. insane. It’s going to be bad. Our self-obsession and selfishness is going to result in the deaths of many.

if the supermarkets must remain open then strict numbers access management required. If we must have then we have to queue outside Strictly separated for hours if needs must.
 
upsidedown said:
.......On Sunday she'll check out Tesco's as she's a Nurse and they're opening up an hour before for NHS workers.......
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Mrs Wedge aiming to try this on Sunday too. Will be interesting to see how much stock in place before they start.

upsidedown said:
.......Sure the media are partly to blame for a lot of this panic but why on why if Italy is not panic buying why are we :mad::mad:
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Saw a news report from Italy last night, suggesting that there was no panic buying, people were orderly, and supermarkets were stocked as normal, certainly the one the camera went into was.

Definitely hyped by the media over here, but the focus is always on the number of cases reported growing fast, along with the number of deaths. Very little to no focus on how many recovered. There was a time when the global recovery rate was about 50% of the reported cases. The number of cases reported globally has ramped up over the last few days, which has cases outside China overtaking China, and outpacing the recovery rate, reducing it to about 30% for now, but that should come back closer again if we flatten the curve like China did. Currently the Chinese reported volumes of infections is 81199, and their reported recovery rate is now 71265 (87%), with the death rate currently at 3253 (4%). That's a lot better than the message being perpetuated by the media over here, in fact they seem to have mostly stopped reporting on the situation in China, switching to Europe, where it's a sharp increase. I get that's the news, but given the circumstances, you'd think reporting some of the better figures wold help ease some of the worry and stress. All figures taken from the John Hopkins Dashboard.
 
HID was in Waitrose this morning as she cares for her parents who are both late 70's self isolating for protection and her mum is housebound anyway. She had an email from Waitrose clearly saying carers were allowed in so got to the door and had a protracted conversation about here credentials and had to phone her dad to get the blue badge number so they could take a record of it and "check" at a later time today. She got in and found loo roll and pasta only for someone to nick it out the trolley as she got something else off a shelf. Good job I wasn't there or there would have been merry hell
 
Sainsburys this morning was limiting people to 2 of anything but were not telling you till you got to the till. Didn't overly impact me apart from having to give up 3 bottles of beer. I was going to argue that 5 or 6 bottles is a normal purchase for me but I didn't bother. But picking which 2 to save and which to give up was tough. ;)

Managed to get everything I wanted but there were some aisles that had been completely stripped bare. Even taking into account that some people are both as thick as mince and selfish, there must come a point soon when people realise they have enough bog roll or pasta to last till 2023 and there's no need to buy any more.
 
Re. The Italians.
My experience of Italy is almost exclusivity tourist based, but in both big cities and small towns. Their retail model is very different to ours. You might say it is not as efficient - they have a lot more shops, often small and with very specific products. Even supermarkets are small and there are a lot more of them. There's more slack in the system and demand is spread.
The UK economy it's very "efficient" in many sectors. Very profitable when everything is ticking along, not so resilient when a grain of sand gets in the gears. I work in transport, and it's definitely a factor in the way things escalate when an incident occurs.
 
Hacker Khan said:
Sainsburys this morning was limiting people to 2 of anything but were not telling you till you got to the till. Didn't overly impact me apart from having to give up 3 bottles of beer. I was going to argue that 5 or 6 bottles is a normal purchase for me but I didn't bother. But picking which 2 to save and which to give up was tough. ;)

Managed to get everything I wanted but there were some aisles that had been completely stripped bare. Even taking into account that some people are both as thick as mince and selfish, there must come a point soon when people realise they have enough bog roll or pasta to last till 2023 and there's no need to buy any more.
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Like I said somewhere else, the most useful thing the gov could do is publish average bog roll use. When people realise that they have 30 days worth they might chill out a bit.
 
It's starting to annoy me now. Part of our normal shopping is 2 loaves of bread. We have 2 kids who go through a loaf between them in a week. Went to 3 supermarkets the other day and the shelves had been picked clean. At the moment we have the one loaf in the freezer which we are keeping there in case we cannot get any more.

It doesn't feel good having to tell a 3 year old and a 6 year old they cant have toast or a slice of bread and butter because we are unable to get anymore. "But dad, we have one in the freezer" "Yes son i know, but there is no more bread in the shops yet".
Makes you feel awful. Only bread i could find was at a local shop that was out of date and being sold for £2. No way i'm resorting to that. Please people, stop stockpiling. You dont need to and you are affecting the so many people.
 
Russ_D said:
It's starting to annoy me now. Part of our normal shopping is 2 loaves of bread. We have 2 kids who go through a loaf between them in a week. Went to 3 supermarkets the other day and the shelves had been picked clean. At the moment we have the one loaf in the freezer which we are keeping there in case we cannot get any more.

It doesn't feel good having to tell a 3 year old and a 6 year old they cant have toast or a slice of bread and butter because we are unable to get anymore. "But dad, we have one in the freezer" "Yes son i know, but there is no more bread in the shops yet".
Makes you feel awful. Only bread i could find was at a local shop that was out of date and being sold for £2. No way i'm resorting to that. Please people, stop stockpiling. You dont need to and you are affecting the so many people.
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There was lots in Aldi this morning. I'm trying to get shopping for eldest DD and her family as they are in the long lockdown. Got her milk, bread, mince, chicken and some veg.

One woman had piled her trolley full with the maximum of four of everything she could fit in. That was apart from catfood where she wanted to buy five tins. She then had a strop and left her trolley at the checkout rather than just having the four tins.
 
chellie said:
There was lots in Aldi this morning. I'm trying to get shopping for eldest DD and her family as they are in the long lockdown. Got her milk, bread, mince, chicken and some veg.

One woman had piled her trolley full with the maximum of four of everything she could fit in. That was apart from catfood where she wanted to buy five tins. She then had a strop and left her trolley at the checkout rather than just having the four tins.
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I'm hoping that once the panic buyers have filled their freezers and dont need more stuff the shelves will start being stocked for longer.
 
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