ODFG! Just please. No more stockpiling!

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DH was away for work this week and mentioned he'd been to Tesco for a few bits. Just in case. It was still in the boot last night.

Fast forward to today. I said I'd like to pop to Costco to get some belly pork strips and we were running low on bog roll.
I nip to the loo and come back to a trolley full of cleaning stuff, kitchen roll and water.

Then had a little nap when we got home (medical issues exhausting me atm). DH unloaded the car.

Photos attached with what I woke up to. 'Scuse kitchen mess.

Those people saying that people like the OP are selfish - agreed if it was from a normal shop but that’s a standard pack size from Costco. We buy all household products from there - if you looked at our utility room you’d think we were one of the mad panic buyers but in reality we’ve just done our usual Costco shop!

If you need to Self isolate a family member to one room, bottled water means they do not have to leave the room to go get a drink. That would be my thinking.

But they have to leave to the room to use the bathroom.

So what's the difference

Wait, I thought stockpiling now was better for less well off people because you’re getting a supply in while we still have a functioning supply chain that will replenish the goods, or has that logic changed?

Wait, I thought stockpiling now was better for less well off people because you’re getting a supply in while we still have a functioning supply chain that will replenish the goods, or has that logic changed?

I was just wondering the same thing Wet .

There are people that can't afford to stockpile, that's the whole point. If you can afford to, fine, but some people can barely afford to feed themselves week in week out, let alone but extras to stockpile.

Buy extras, not but extras.

But what I was wondering is, if those who can stockpile while the supply chain is running well, then later when things are in shorter supply they will be available for people who couldn't stockpile? The stockpilers will stay safely at home using up their stock, and not want to venture to the shops?

Absolutely selfish. I don't care whether people on here call themselves preppers or hoarders or panic buyers, stripping the shelves is so bloody selfish.

The stockpilers will stay safely at home using up their stock, and not want to venture to the shops?

No. The mindset is to keep stockpiling and sod everyone else.

But what about when it isn't safe to venture outside to the shops, and the poorer people have tried to buy a little extra when they could but now can't and have nothing in? Stockpiling is excellent and I try to do it with things like pasta and frozen meats, but we've just got through our pile of loo roll and now I can't buy any more locally so going to have to travel in the hopes I can find some. It's the panic buyers I have real issue with. I've seen posts where people can't buy calpol for their ill child, nurseries can't get any wet wipes or loo roll or washing up liquid, there's no foods such as pasta or rice or tins that can last a while. That's what is ridiculous. Coronavirus didn't just pop up this week, and if people were worried then they should have been slowly piling up what they have rather than everyone buying anything and everything in one day leaving nothing for the people who don't have any money until next week due to pay days or benefits etc.

There are people that can't afford to stockpile, that's the whole point. If you can afford to, fine, but some people can barely afford to feed themselves week in week out, let alone but extras to stockpile.

Exactly that ^^

If your benefits are paid weekly, you can only afford your standard shop.

There are lots of reports of supermarkets with empty shelves. It must be awful to see things running out before your eyes, knowing that you can't stock up on basics until next week, when most of it will probably be gone.

I keep 4 2l bottles of water in the cupboard that aren't to be touched unless we actually need them - we usually drink tap water but last year it was cut off for 24 hours because there was a corroded pipe leaking rust into the supply.

I didn't realise how much we actually used water and it was a PITA so I always keep stock now just incase.

I'm due to do my routine supermarket shop today (I do a 'big shop' once a month) and I'm already worried that stockpilers will have cleared the shelves.

On the plus side, I've just had a text regarding my Morrisons delivery later on today.

It says there are no missing items but I was lucky to be able to book my regular delivery slot, as I got an email from Morrisons on Monday telling me there was 'higher than average demand'.

If your supermarkets are empty where do you live as ours are all fully stocked.Im West mids in a small rural town,nearest(smallish)city also no problems.

I’m actually about to run out of toilet roll... I hope there is some left in shops today 🤣

Looks like my usual Costco shop tbh. Isn't that the point of Costco?

penisbeaker I agree. I'm also in an "at risk" category so it's alright for me to croak! I went to Morrison's yesterday, mostly to get Walkers roast chicken crisps, and I was quite confused when I saw the empty soap shelves. I didn't get anything extra other than what I needed and what I went for.
OP, get him a Sodastream if he likes fizzy water, it still comes out of the tap and doesn't create mountains of plastic waste

I'm in one of the 'at risk' groups as well, but still have to work for a living. We're not that well off either,so it's not we're rich and robbing the poor here.

His thinking is because I'm at risk then we need to be able to survive a fortnight at home if I get sick. Plus my son has been in contact with someone who's just come back from Asia and now has flu symptoms. Selfish little cow didn't want to tell anyone because that would inhibit her partying.

Just got back from local supermarket and it seemed more or less as normal. Toilet paper was on the low side with some gaps in the shelf but everything else as usual.

Tbh that looks like a normal Costco shopping trip to me

We spend £300-350 at costco 4 times a year. I cringe so much at the time but I rarely need to buy washing powder/nappies/dishwasher tablets/corn flakes/crisps and many other things at tesco and over the whole year I save a fortune. Love Costco! Oh and the Levi jeans/books are awesome to!

I agree with Worra, it's very selfish but then just about everybody is.

Not everybody has a car to go shopping either so it's not as if they can go on a hunt for something missing from the intended shop. It must put enormous pressure on those who really are vulnerable.

Greed... pure and simple greed and self-interest.

I haven't been to the shops all week as working silly hours atm. Decided to do a 'big shop' today. Left at 9am for Sainsbury's and it was mental! Hardly any pasta at all and barely any toilet roll . Couple in front of me at checkout with a gazillion tins of baked beans (maybe they bought all the toilet roll previously ), bags and bags of frozen chicken and mahoosive bags of rice amongst things. I asked jokingly if they had a cafe or something but no, just the two of them apparently 'just incase'.

like we're totally bloody expendable

I’m old with no dependents. I’m completely expendable and the first to say so.

I, and plenty of others I know, have mentioned that healthy less-than-elderly adults (and so far children, seemingly, touch wood) aren’t as at risk from serious effects, and it’s the groups you mention who are. Bit of a shame that I have to apparently explain it’s because I’m relieved for those at risk that more medical resources will therefore be available to those who will really need them, meaning hopefully fewer people will be lost (‘expended’ hasn’t crossed my mind)