To remind people that the shops are only shut for one fucking day?!

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Please, give me strength. Why do so many people panic buy, pile their trollies Sky high and get rude and stroppy with retail staff at this time of year? No, Armageddon isn't coming, it's Christmas! The shops are shut for a grand of one day, 24 hours later they will open again on the morning of Boxing Day. Please consider this when you are filling you're trollies with about 17 pints of milk and 20 loaves of bread or having a go at a sales assistant for ruining your Xmas. I wonder how people coped back in the days when the shops shut for several days?!

My Facebook feed is full of stories of people fighting over sprouts and having fights in car parks because they are so busy. I went passed my local Morrisons earlier and the traffic was backed up around the car park and onto the road.

Quite frankly if you leave it all until the last minute to do your shopping you are a knob who needs to be more organised next year, and honestly the sky will not fall in if you don't have sprouts on your plate come xmas day.

People need to getting a sodding grip!

What if people don't want turkey curry/sandwiches/salad?

Tis the season everyone! Peace and love please

Sainsburys were out of cat litter liners on Monday. This is a cause for worry.

I like to play 'Christmas Roulette' most years. Whizz round M&S an hour before they shut Christmas Eve. We never know what we are going to get.
I like to live on the edge!

Tomorrow I will be too pissed though, so will go at 5am when they open, that's another good time as it is really quiet.

Maybe they don't want to go out food shopping over Christmas.
Maybe they are going to stay in a remote farmhouse somewhere.

It's really not hard to come with reasons rather then just insulting the shoppers.

You're the one who needs to get a sodding grip!

You need to clear shelves of bread and milk when you've got 14 people for 3 lots if breakfast and endless cups of tea!

I get that. However, you would have thought that that means there are 14 people who don't need to shop for themselves which ought to keep stocks more or less stable taken over a wide area, and it just doesn't happen.

No, they really aren't. That wouldn't account for the people staggering around with trolleys overflowing and, in a few cases I've seen, two or more trolleys full.

So to have seen this you too must have been in the supermarket.
But of course that doesn't count does it.

Baffled by the ones moaning on here when I guess they're also doing a last minute shop... Ah well one rule for one and all that

I eat sandwiches every single work day of the year, I don't want to eat some leftover sandwich on Boxing Day, but thanks!

If you don't want to go food shopping, don't go, no one if forcing you.

People eat more at Christmas (most do), they buy treats, they have more people coming around, and are trying to avoid popping in the shops for a week or so.

You are an awful person if you feel the need to insult us, I am very proud to have done a HUGE shop today, so I won't have to go back for at least a week. Yes, it's done at the "last minute", I give fresh milk, fruits and veg to my kids. If you want to eat from a tin, go for it, we don't.

Enjoy your Christmas, you sound like so much fun!

Closed for one day?

Ours close tomorrow at 2pm, are closed Christmas Day, Boxing Day & the day after (Sunday).

Who wants to shop for food on Boxing Day even if they are open?

It's a tradition in this house to cook extra potatoes and sprouts on Christmas day and then have bubble and squeak on Boxing day.

Bubble and squeak is the business, served with cold turkey, poached eggs and crusty bread. Chips would cause war to break out.

I went shopping today just for a nosey round, didn't need anything but spent more money on extra stuff we don't need, in the spirit of Christmas.

I think most of us have better things to do than go to a supermarket on Boxing Day anyhow rather than it only being 'one fucking day' as you so charmingly put it. I like to live in a bubble for 5 days and that does not include food shopping in anyone's book .

I like my food fresh and I don't get dressed on Boxing day. For me it's at least 3 days before I'll set foot near a super market.

That said I did only buy what we need for 3-4 days. Bread, milk, bog roll, nappies etc.

We're being hosted on Xmas day so didn't have to worry about fresh veg and turkeys and stuff.

Nothing like a good ole punch up over sprouts and a spat in the carpark Happy fekkin Christmas everyone

Dipankrispaneven - i guess it's because everyone - other than people like the OP who really do only do Christmas for 24 hours and seem to think shopping daily is a sensible use of your time off - are shopping for a week, but starting that week at the same point, plus large numbers are catering for large numbers of people at home, rarher than being out at work. We need a lot more milk on days DH is off work and at home as he'll have fuck loads of tea.

I'm sure it balances out with all those offices and workplaces not ordering milk for a few days, but then most companies don't source their milk from the supermarkets...

I know veg can last more than 48 hours, but it does tend to taste better if fresher, and if I want to use those left over veg I don't serve on Christmas day later in the week, I don't want ones that only really have a couple of days left when I buy them. I don't want to throw out food, so I need it to be as fresh as possible to maximise my chance of using it up before it goes off.

I remember being in a supermarket near closing on Christmas Eve one year. The mark down man appeared and it was terrifying. I worried for his safety.

YABU

I don't understand why you don't understand it.

I'm feeding 5x as many people as usual.
I'm feeding them for several days, not just one meal.
I want to serve fresh fruit, veg, milk, bread.

I don't want to food shop again until at least Monday, preferably later.

Yes, we eat turkey leftovers on Boxing Day but that needs supplementing with other stuff, ham, jacket pots, coleslaw etc. There's not enough leftover veg from Christmas Day to feed 11 on Boxing Day, if there were, I'd have cooked waaaay too much.

We had to buy food for guests for 3 days. Unlike many on here, we don't have relatives locally, so we have different sets coming to stay.
I have no intention of going shopping while they are here, so I had to buy food for entertaining until after Sunday.
Storing it all is difficult, but it's the only way.

I do wonder if all these turkey left overs are the festive version of the MN mythical chicken you can get a dozen meals for 4 out of - we will have some left overs of turkey, enough for some snacky sarnies, but not enough to serve the whole family for a main meal (let alone additional guests). I suppose I could buy a bigger turkey, but that seems an expensive way to cater boxing day and would mean I had to start cooking on Christmas day even earlier...

Anyone observing us shop this week might think we "emptied the shelves", but I don't want to go shopping again over Christmas.

Nothing will be wasted.

With 24/7 supermarket shopping nowadays surely there is ample chance of picking a quiet time. I have childhood memories of the queues in Sainsbury's stretching almost to the back of the shop - which basically meant that you had to shop by abandoning someone in one place with a trolley and running backwards & forwards with stuff.

It's way easier these days. Nothing for anyone to get their knickers in a twist about.

i have done my main shopping for friday and saturday today becasue A i got paid today, b i want my food fresh for christmas C i only have two days off between now and new years day dont want to spend them shopping D i have more people for dinner on boxing day for dinner and working in the morning dont want to shop as well and finaly E i have bought enough food to go in the freezer for during the week so i dont need to go shopping till a week on sunday

Oh god this is not what I needed to read...
I've been visiting family several hundred of miles away with DCs (seriously ill parent) - came back today to spend Christmas Day with DP (he has to work for part of Christmas Day and all around it) ...got Turkey ordered locally to pick up tomorrow but I asked him to buy things like brussels and parsnips over the last few days - got back 30 mins ago to find out he hasn't got round to it yet ....he will go tomorrow evening ( - or I can go in the morning ...
I'm going to have to go in the morning tomorrow aren't I ...or there will be nothing left ....and its going to be dreadful isn't it

I buy last minute as the gannets in my house would have the good stuff picked clean . I've already growled tonight over the nibbling of treats. I prefer not leaving the house between Christmas and the New Year we're quite a distance from shops and prefer to spend time cosied up at home instead. My money my choice.