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Ffs why on earth are people stock piling AGAIN 😡

80 replies

granadagirl · 04/10/2020 09:44

Do they not realise that this is going to get to exactly The same situation we were in mo this ago!!
Queuing outside supermarkets
Long queues
Empty shelves
NO online order slots
Less deliveries, running out
hoarding excess

Please don’t let this happen AGAIN, it was
SO stressful
If everyone just does they NORMAL weekly shop, this should NOT happen

I’ve already seen empty and very low stock on shelves

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CuriousaboutSamphire · 04/10/2020 10:17

I know. It's depressing. We live quite rurally and have to stock up when we shop, it's usually a 40 mile round trip. Our monthly shop yesterday was ridiculous... 3 supermarkets to get all the basics, and we gave up on pasta.

DH is working away next week, he'll shop wherever he is working, see if he can fill the gaps. Last time that meant our spaghetti traveled 120 miles from shop to home Smile

thenightsky · 04/10/2020 10:18

Maybe its worry about Brexit? I dunno, but agree its very depressing. I can't go through all that misery again.

Judashascomeintosomemoney · 04/10/2020 10:19

I imagine as Brexit transition period ending looms there’ll be even more of it happening. Might be a lean Christmas.

Timeforabiscuit · 04/10/2020 10:22

Poke your head out of the window! Its the start of storm season, I always make sure I have bread, milk and eggs when it's blowing like this!

That and they're going to fine you an ungodly amount if you break quarantine, which with the app could happen at a moment's notice.

Both of these things are legitimate, and WILL change shopping habits.

SnapeSnapeSeverusSnape · 04/10/2020 10:23

I think some of it isn't stock piling as such, we recently thought we might need to isolate for 14 days, thankfully only ended up being 5. I normally do a weekly shop plus get the odd thing throughout the week. Obviously this wouldn't be possible if we weren't supposed to leave the house for two weeks, so we stocked up two weeks worth. I can imagine a fair few people are having to do this at the moment. Will add I couldn't get a delivery slot with any of the supermarkets, ended up having to click and collect and not get out of the car, so getting food delivered weekly wasn't an option.

Whatwouldscullydo · 04/10/2020 10:25

You do know that we have to be prepared ti be able to isolate at short notice for at least 14 days right . Should our kids get sent home or a kid in ther class tests positive

PleasantVille · 04/10/2020 10:26

@Timeforabiscuit

Poke your head out of the window! Its the start of storm season, I always make sure I have bread, milk and eggs when it's blowing like this!

That and they're going to fine you an ungodly amount if you break quarantine, which with the app could happen at a moment's notice.

Both of these things are legitimate, and WILL change shopping habits.

Where abouts do you live?

I've lived al over England and nowhere has there been a storm season. That really can't be the reason or we'd always have had shortages

I think it's a combination of general (unjustified) panic and more underandable concern that a fortnight isolation means no shopping and possible trouble with online slots

Timeforabiscuit · 04/10/2020 10:29

No not shopping in anticipation of shortage, I just don't like going out and getting wet in storms!

Uwemoo · 04/10/2020 10:30

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CuriousaboutSamphire · 04/10/2020 10:36

I get that, I prep all the time, we can get cut off very easily.

But that doesn't explain the simultaneous empty shelves across two large towns and a city, 20 miles apart, in an area that is used to being flooded and has very very low covid rates.

We don't see empty shelves in other years, not even 2007 when we were warned about the huge floods.

megletthesecond · 04/10/2020 10:36

Maybe they never got organised earlier 🙄 and don't have two weeks supplies in.

FlemCandango · 04/10/2020 10:39

We have stocked up on a few things but as a family of 5 we need to if we have to isolate. I have children with ASD and food issues so I need to ensure I can make the limited range of meals ds will eat. I am vulnerable to Covid so don't go to the shop in person and have regular deliveries. We buy loo roll in bulk every 3 months. We are getting a few things in for Christmas. All seems legit and not excessive to us.

DobbyTheHouseElk · 04/10/2020 10:41

I live rurally. Everyone here gets supplies in for winter. The roads get cut off very quickly. It’s the norm.

Not everyone lives in walking distance of a shop. Rural villages and hamlets don’t have a shop for miles here.

PleasantVille · 04/10/2020 10:41

@megletthesecond

Maybe they never got organised earlier 🙄 and don't have two weeks supplies in.
Have I missed something?

Are we all meant to have two weeks of supplies?

Whatwouldscullydo · 04/10/2020 10:41

Maybe they never got organised earlier 🙄 and don't have two weeks supplies in

Cos not preparing seems to be some sort of badge of honour. They want their "im not a panic buyer badge"

Of course their friends and family then all have to go buy double themselves to sort them out....

PotteringAlong · 04/10/2020 10:42

The thing is though, if we lock down again (and I’m in the north east and I don’t think that’s an unrealistic prospect at the moment for us) I cannot do my normal weekly shop.

At the minute the children (I have 3) have breakfast at breakfast club and lunch at school. 3 days a week I aim to pick them up before they have tea at out of school club / nursery and so they only need a snack. So, at the minute I make 20 x breakfast 20 x lunch and 26 x evening meals. 66 meals a week.

In lockdown when everyone is at home for all meals then I need to make 105 meals a week.

You call it panic buying. I call it planning ahead.

daisychain1620 · 04/10/2020 10:43

I haven't seen any signs of this yet or heard if anyone doing this. Fingers crossed it stays that way

CrunchyNutNC · 04/10/2020 10:43

We must be the only society where it's seen as better to leave food buying to the last minute, and being prepared for fairly likely scenarios is considered irresponsible.

Kerberos · 04/10/2020 10:44

Anecdotal yes, but last week the shelves were fairly empty (loo rolls, pasta etc), this week same time same shop the shelves were fully stocked. Didn't struggle to get anything.

I felt less pressure this week to buy a "just in case" extra so I wonder if it's a psychological effect? Once a shelf looks a little low, we're wired to grab a couple even if we don't need them right now.

nosswith · 04/10/2020 10:44

I think that talk of a half term 'lockdown' seems to have started this.

Tomatoesneedtoripen · 04/10/2020 10:44

i dont think telling people NOT to stock pile will work

the very thought of stock pile makes people nervous and makes them WANT to do it.

the lack of loo paper on the shelves, causes people to buy more, lack of pasta and people get desperate.
i spent a fortune with buying things in the spring, in an anxious state

Tomatoesneedtoripen · 04/10/2020 10:46

i keep reminding my student dd to make sure she has plenty of food in, in case of having to isolate

CrunchyNutNC · 04/10/2020 10:46

pleasantville

If you were required to self isolate tomorrow then you would not be allowed to go to the shop for 2 weeks.

Why wouldn't you want to be prepared?

annabel85 · 04/10/2020 10:48

It's understandable if people are prepping for the possibility of having to self isolate for a week or two, therefore have a week or two shopping to mostly last them if it occurs.

However, a lot of the idiots who hoard all this stuff are too selfish to self isolate anyway if they were requested to.

Legoandloldolls · 04/10/2020 10:48

I'm in a county bordering London and haven't seen this anywhere at all in the past two months. In fact my nearest Asda was bursting full of stuff. Pallets full in the isles yesterday being unloaded. Still every hour of every day for click and collect at my uni town, hospital city centre Tesco.

I think a lot of this is media / fb hyperbole. Even if there is no bog roll in say Manchester, it's hardly a persistent country wide shortage. Some ours could be sent to you, red cross emergency style