£48 worth of petit filous

[HeresToTheCrazyOnes]

I saw a man buying £48 worth of petit filous. Nothing else. And I thought the supermarkets were banning this kind of buying.

What is the craziest thing you have seen?

Countdown to a reply saying maybe that's all his child eats and you can't possibly judge in 3, 2, 1...

But surely it would go off before the mythical child could eat all that?

What a wanker! A whole fridge full of nothing but petit filous. Wasteful too.

I haven't seen that sort of thing round here, but it must have happened because the shelves are bare or low on stock.

Older chap in front of me in Woolworths had about 50 packs of colouring pencils...perhaps Grandpa with enormous number of grandkids??

@turnandface where are you that has a Woolworths

Australia?

People are selling on things on fb.

I saw a fb selling post for one single loo roll, price £100! He put in the description he’d settle for a packet of tissues and £75.00.

I wander what will happen when we go into lockdown and shops are able to replenish and people are allowed to make sensible shopping errands.

Will people end up with just masses of, toilet rolls and nappies and baby milk and baked beans and yoghurt just sitting in their houses?

Our supermarket shelves are bare, like most places. Not sure how there was so much for him to take, unless it had just been put out.

Not judging but I saw a woman and daughter with masks on buying 24 x 2l of 7up, nothing else - everyone around them was buying meat, veg etc was bizarre - I can't really see a shortage on 7up lasting long

Actually, I DO teach a child who is only able to eat fromage frais or tinned custard. He's non verbal and very autistic. His mum is very anxious about how he will cope with the massive changes he's living through. Everyone at school who knows has been passing on supplied to her this week.
Yesterday, I saw an elderly man really anxious in the supermarket because they didn't have any PGTips. I pointed out there were a couple of boxes of own label t bags. He said his wife had dementia and would get very agitated without her PGs.
We don't know the circumstances of anyone whether they have to buy extra nappies and formula because they have twins, or loo roll because they have an incontinent elderly relative at home, or a whole shelf of tinned soup because they're delivering it to house bound pensioners who can't use the Internet!
Please, be kind. You'll feel so much better than assuming everyone is a selfish twat and getting yourself all angry.

I work with a dementia patient. I had to put tesco tea bags inside the tetley box last week as she is very focused on everything exactly the same.

Admittedly one of the only things my DC eat guaranteed is petits flous, but we have 4 packs in, and I got them on the 2 for £2 deal. I did however get the chocolate ones in case other kids don't like them and parents need the normal ones. It's all about balancing what you need and what others need.

Food for thought here. Don't judge without any knowledge of someone.

no baked beans in our Tesco and my partner went to get some loo roll the other day no not stocking piling just our normal purchase and there were none. assistant said lorry came in at 6.30 was empty by 7.
our local garage had 4 packs loo rolls for £7.50 we said you are taking the mickey she said no ordinary supplier had run out and the supplier they had to go to charged them £7 each pack so they were only making 50p

A few days ago the lovely chap who served me in Aldi was talking about how customers were reacting to the 4 items only rule. He pointed to a stack of 40-odd packets of cheese slices that somebody had tried to buy and they'd kicked up a fuss when he'd told them he could only sell them four packs. Why would anyone need that many cheese slices? What are you going to do with them? Wallpaper (cheesepaper?) your kitchen with them?!

I started buying extra beans in January as all my kids eat!

@frazzledasarock On my local Facebook selling page people are selling a 'bargepole' for £50 to keep people at a safe distance (old broomhandle) and a 'self-isolation pod' for £500 to wear in the supermarket (pop up tent)

They’ve run out of chocolate body paint and all these nights in......?

Perhaps he was buying for a care home. It must be for multiple people because as you said, they would go off
Try not to judge

Supermarket local to me is selling that cheap 2 ply scented loo roll for £10.99 a pack. Hopefully people will remember this when the crisis is over.

There are so many messages going round asking people to pick up stuff for the elderly and vulnerable - and then so many people complaining that customers are buying multiples of items...

24 bags of coffee beans. That was me, they were half price and I have a serious habit. Selfish, I know, but I haven't bought unusual quantities of anything else (prepper), I bought them purely because of the discount.

I have also panic-planted a fuck-ton of sprouting potatoes in the garden. You can make vodka from potatoes, right?

My Facebook is going mad at the moment as the local shop is charging £18 for a pack of 9 toilet rolls. I haven't seen the panic buying as I've been stuck in my house with a cough since the weekend.

The dementia stories are so sad

My DM told me she went to the Co-op last night, and the cashier was visibly upset, said she'd been shouted at by irate customers all day.

I also feel for the people on low incomes, state pensions, that can't afford to buy 'big' shops or even a bit extra and normally have to shop multiple times a week. Not only are they being forced to put themselves at risk of infection but when they get there they can't get anything.

Mil can’t cope when she comes to our house and I don’t have pg tips or Nescafé. She doesn’t even have dementia! Every single time she empties out the cupboard (despite the tea bags being very obviously at the front) and says “I can’t find the pg tips”

The yogurts I would assume were for someone making up packed lunches for those on free school meals or similar