Red Sea attacks - is panic buying looming?

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Do you think all of the attacks and military action in the Red Sea is going to cause panic buying like we saw before the pandemic, the petrol crisis a few years ago etc?

A few CEO’s of some of the big retailers have already come out and said that they are anticipating stock delays. And I can just vision it now - people clearing the shelves again even though there is no need to.

I’ve just been to my local Waitrose to pick up a few bits and it wasn’t very well stocked especially in the fruit and veg aisles. Now it’s not the most stocked store at the best of the times, and it is late Saturday afternoon, but still, it just got me thinking…

But if everyone goes out tomorrow and buys out all the Easter eggs, there’s still three months to find some more. Unless pp eats her Easter eggs of course. But only low control savages eat chocolate they buy early, or teens that stumble across your stash.

during covid we had people posting photos on FB community group.

1. outside possibly the most middle class towns Sainsbury’s at 9am demanding that people outside was the “scum of the earth to queue so early”. All irony lost of them that they was….. there too…
2. people posting photos of people with two packs of mince on the conveyer belt, the cry’s of burn the witch. I had to point out this really scared me as with four kids, I couldn’t survive on 500g of mince for the week, but I would rather they not eat than be posted all over FB. So the replies was no one would begrudge ME buying two packs, like they have surveyed the person they took pictures of and stuck on FB.

the pack urge for violence was more scary than having no food for my children. I was more scared of being attacked.

@DyslexicPoster that makes me a low control savage then, as I have a Buttons egg I am getting stuck into later tonight 🙂

But if everyone goes out tomorrow and buys out all the Easter eggs, there’s still three months to find some more

But that was true during lockdown, loads of stuff didn’t need to be stockpiled.

I agree with you that the pandemic showed how stupid much of the population is, not depressing really.

@Greenshake im eating mini eggs

And for this, I salute you 👏👏👏

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Threads like this isn’t going to help though

i can’t cope with arseholes panic buying it again. It was outrageous during the pandemic and totally unnecessary. Let’s just hope it doesn’t happen again!

Stuff coming in a boat through suez is likely to be more the plastic garden furniture you couldn’t get in 2020 not the fresh fruit and veg which is much more likely due to both Brexit issues here and with imports and majorly because of Ukraine.

Who needs advertising when you can just start a mumsnet post and have people panic buy 😂

It's interesting how many people haven't noticed that the shipping route through red sea is severely disrupted until someone started operation to fix them.

DP works for Next and lots of their clothes are being very delayed. But since retailers have stock in their shops ridiculously early usually, I don’t think it’ll bother most customers. After all, who wants to buy shorts and vest tops in January?! If they’re delayed till March we won’t mind!

I'm a savage too. I don't eat the kids eggs before Easter, but if they leave any AFTER Easter, I'm straight on it. Can not buy Christmas chocolate early due to a entire family of savages. One year they ate all if a tub of hero's and left the empty tub. What really pisses me off is that the eldest has a bmi of about 17. The dirty skinny pig 😆

I wouldn't know - we deal in engineering components and stuff like that.

A few CEO’s of some of the big retailers have already come out and said that they are anticipating stock delays. And I can just vision it now - people clearing the shelves again even though there is no need to

And I'd bet that the big retailers have learned the lessons from the early days of covid and if they think people clearing the shelves will be an issue, will put buying limits in place.