ODFG! Just please. No more stockpiling!

[Babysharkdoodoodood]

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.

My eyes are drawn to his meat.

You don’t get meat in polystyrene trays much in this country anymore. Plastic boxes usually.

The empty shelves photos are revealing. Even in a panic situation, nobody wants the Cushelle. The supermarket can learn something from this I think.

That’s a very light Costco shop.

It’s hardly selfish. FFS your hand-to-mouth shopper doesn’t shop at Costco and Costco get very pissed off if you break open the outers. It’s a BULK BUY place, not the place to go for 2 loo rolls and 50 tea bags 🙄

Panic buying will be what you are all doing when you get told to self isolate. Prepares will not be the ones stripping the last of everything off the shelves!

Insensitive to post about it. Goady aswell

It’s not insensitive to post when your husband has done something to annoy you, just in case someone else can’t afford to go to bloody Costco. for crying out loud.

@Babysharkdoodoodood I think your husband is great. He’s trying to look after you. He hasn’t bought 20kg of sweets and nothing practical.

You might have to go to work, but if he’s happy to do all the grocery shopping then great, as it means you can avoid a lot of people and germs.

Stay well 🌸.

My eyes are drawn to his meat

Splutter

@Babysharkdoodoodood - better watch out for that one!

I think your husband is great... He hasn’t bought 20kg of sweets and nothing practical.

This is not great

@AmelieTaylor exactly. It’s Costco, not your regular pissant Sainsbury’s Local that can’t keep lettuce in stock to save their own jobs/lives.

Some people on this thread are being ridiculous and are overreacting. Besides, it’s March. We’ve known about this for nearly two months now. If you haven’t deduced by now that you should have extra supplies of ibuprofen or toilet paper in your house for even a regular flu season, that’s your own stupidity and bad planning. 🙄 This excludes people who can’t afford to buy extra of course.

We've just done our shopping as I couldn't get a delivery slot for a week. On the way into Waitrose I passed a bloke with about 6 four packs of loo roll I his trolley. There was none left on the shelves when I got to that aisle. The painkillers were nearly all gone too.

Why are people stock piling loo roll?

Bottled water and he uses kitchen roll as a towel?
Does he have something against the environment?

I have an actual cold. Not a may catch virus.

My head has been pounding.

I traipsed around town, 2 supermarkets and my local shops just to get 1 packet of 16 ibuprofen today.

My ds is an athlete with a muscular disability. He eats a lot of pasta. Needed to stock up. We got 2 of the last 10 bags of 500g pasta in supermarket. Squash and fizzy was easy and surprisingly the toilet roll I needed (down to 1 roll) and simple hand wash (down to last pump or 2) was still just about available.

I usually do an Asda online order but it's there that's has suffered the worst hence why I went to local shops.

I went to do my weekly shop today. The only item that Lidl had run out of was bread flour (same as everywhere else), but Asda had no toilet paper, no pasta, no hand wash, but plenty of actual soap.

All I bought was extra bread flour (found in another Lidl, in a more deprived area).

I understand the panic, and the chain reaction that any mention of panic buying/hoarding/prepping creates. It is self fulfilling, as the fear of shortages create the shortage.

@Shandied It was psoted in jest to the OP

But...it was Oxford Waitrose, first time Ive been in there. It had a cafe, which I discovered after a salty bacon bap form elsewhere

I went to Costco today and they had already run out of toilet roll!

he uses kitchen roll as a towel?

It’s a good idea for infection control.

Been to tesco for my wine and some beers.

Staff said it's so busy. No one panicking or "prepping" but everyone seems to be doing a very full shop.

Seems sensible. No one with 20 packs of bog roll or anything silly, but a good full fridge and some long life stuff in case they have to stay home. As a prepper, I'm a bit proud of them all 😂

@WorraLiberty

Whilst I agree stockpiling is selfish I'm not sure I follow your logic? Surely people shouldn't stockpile so there is availability for everyone? (Not just poor people who cant afford to stockpile themselves at this present moment)

FWIW my local supermarket [a massive Sainsburys] has been like a warzone all week but my online shop came today and the only thing missing was pickled onions

I think the toilet roll issue isnt down to two weeks isolation, its because it comes from china ( sometimes via northern Italy) so once current warehouse supplies run out there will be a delay before new shipments arrive- it takes 6 weeks

Fuckit! I only get out once a week when I'm taken to Morrisons by Special Transport every Thursday.
Only hope that come this Thursday I'll be able to do my usual shop. Gotta live in hope, or failing that, gotta live off fresh air

@gypsywater

I ALWAYS have these stocks in place. It's sensible. I'm on benefits. What would happen to my kids if our benefits where stopped? I have supplies ( on my tiny amount of money) as my kids and my own week being us the most important thing to ME.

You want to c Male sure you have supplies for an emergency? But your own and out your own emergency plan into place. An I going to wait about other people being unprepared for an illness that ( regardless of the name) could strike any of us at any time?

You know cancer/death/benefit changes etc doesn't care about income or pandemics? What I do is sensible and logical and screw your own uneasiness with me making sure me and B my kids are ok if disaster strikes us.

Not my circus, not my monkeys. You want people to be concerned? Write to your mp, your prime minister or whoever you want. But don't dare judge me for taking steps to make sure me and my kids are ok for 4-6 weeks if something terrible happens. I've been making these plans and storing food for 2 years . Not my issue you can't foresee problems arising

I do think the massive amount of loo roll is ridiculous but the rest is ok. How many of you are there? That amount of loo roll would last me and DH years.

@AtAt123 I don't condemn people for have a stock of food. I think anyone sensible would have that. The trouble is that people who don't have any stock only enough food for a week or so then go out and panic buy.

I know not everyone can buy loads of extra but if you buy a couple of extra tins of say tomatoes or baked beans or a bag of pasta each time you shop a stock soon builds up. That is hardly going to break the bank is it? A tin of tomatoes in Aldi is 28p, not much more in Asda, Morrisons, Tesco etc. The majority of people are not so hard up they can't afford that.

Anything could happen that means someone can't get out to shop. Very heavy snow, floods, being ill, a child of a single parent being ill so they can't go out, car problems etc. No guarantee you could get a home delivery and, even if you could, you would likely have to pay for it. So far more sensible to have a stockpile.

We always have enough food for at least a month but probably more like 2. We always have tinned tomatoes and baked beans, bags of lentils, chickpeas, beans, pasta and rice. Milk and bread in the freezer. Different flours so we could make our own bread if need be. Meals I have made and frozen, lots of frozen veg.

If we were happy to eat some boring and/or strange meals I reckon we could last around 4 months on the food we have

@AtAt123 you are one angry person

@gypsywster

And you are a very under prepared person. I'm not angry in the slightest, but me and my kids will be well fed and have clean arses 😊

@lynsey91 there is me, my autistic son and three other kids. I have shocking fibroids and have been bleeding for 5 months and my son has toileting issues. Hence the loo rolls. For those thinking in dat on subs sorry if loo roll pension, can yourselves. They are Nicky loo rolls. £4 for 18 or three packs for £11. With a farm food vouch that reduces it to £10

I do all my shopping in bulk , and in advance simply because I don't know if I can manage from one month to the next. So me having 4-6 weeks loo roll is hardly a shocker. I also prepare w my council tax, gas and levy but I can't see anybody clutching their Pearl over that..... if you can't manage that, it isn't my problem. Sort your own admin before you judge mine

Hahaha under prepared person...jokes...this is hilarious

She's not angry, she's fed up of judgy pants people.
Massive overbuying is silly, stocking up and prepping isn't.
It's not that she doesn't care about other people but she cares about her own family more, that's how the world works.

That could be mistaken for a usual Costco shop.