Panic buyers

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Aibu to think that it's damn ridiculous the way people have been panic buying?
Personally I think that all the supermarkets should take a leaf out of our co ops book and allow one 6 pint per person! Yes it caused a few rows but surely that is the fair way when stocks are running low.
It's always milk and bread, some people are so selfish and buy ridiculous amounts of the stuff.
It drives me mad.

Squishysquirmy

I have been around for a while. I am British, lived in the UK for 30 years before moving to the US. So I have experienced both sides.

We use 6 pints of milk a day. If I went to a shop and was told I could only buy 1x 6 pints of milk after dragging my tiny kids through a blizzard I would kick off too. Bread we can live without but milk is a PITA. I can make bread but haven’t a cow to milk.

How do these people live? Do they physically go food shopping every single day? It's nuts! And damn expensive if you buy individual portions of everything

It is nuts! But if you think costa for breakfast coffee and a muffin. Lunch in the work canteen, then pick up something in tesco metro on the way home, or takeaway, or eat out. It’s entirely plausible that a vast chunk of inner city London (and others) has very little food at home.

It wouldn’t take a big event to happen before pandemonium sets in.

so stocking up for no reason is great, but stocking up for an actual known event is selfish and entitled?

There's a difference between building up a small stock of storable food when the supply lines and stores are all open, and it won't mean anyone else will go without, and building up that stock when the supply lines are struggling and the shops are running out of food, thus leaving less for others to share out.

So yes, selfish and entitled.

The suggestion is to stock up just in case well in advance; not to panic buy. But if you do head to the shops in a crisis, unless the shop actually rations what it sells or there is some other intervention, I'm not sure you can criticise anyone for doing what they think is right for their family. I would criticise them for not building a supply at home in advance but that's their call.
I would see if I could help out elderly neighbours with their shopping, if necessary - or offer to bring them a meal if I could spare some. Otherwise, not sure there's much point in calling someone out for panic buying in the moment. The trick is to avoid being in that position.

But id imagine they do have a supply at home of some sort. But not a heap of frozen milk/bread in case of heavy snow. I have probably about a good month or 2 of dry/tinned food and various frozen meals/meat. But im not wasting my freezer space with bread and milk when i know i can even in snowy conditions go to the shop and get enough for 3-5 days to see me through. Sure in an nuclear apocalypse I wont be able to do that, but then im thinking bread and milk be at the bottom of my priorities then.

I'm not so obsessed with bread and milk myself (although we have a couple of litres of milk in the freezer and a couple of loaves).
I know that many people find a cuppa to be a good morale boost in tough days. If making a brew for someone cheers them up then there is a lot to be said for it.
Not really worth getting into a scrum for, though. Nor is bread.

For goodness sake it's not like we are in war time ffs, can people not go a few days without bread and milk? I'm sure you can go a week with a sandwich/toast! All this stock piling of food as if it's 1940 with no end in sight.

We drink 9 bottles of 4 pint bottles of milk a week. I always buy this much milk. It may have looked like I was panic buying but I was just doing my usual weekly shop.

justoneday - you drink 36 pints a week? wow! How many people?

@mocha but no one is stockpiling so why are you even suggesting that?

there should have been a limit on cer4tain foods wtf needs 20 pints for a few days

our tesco still havent replneished their stocks theres loads of empty shleves still

Just a thought, but maybe people were buying for neighbours, family, friends etc. A man who lives in our village posted on our village Facebook page saying that as he had a 4x4 he was offering to go shopping for people if anybody needed anything. He had requests for bread, milk, baby formula, nappies etc. I admit some people did just act a bit silly panic buying, but there probably were many people who were shopping for multiple families.

I’m beginning to wonder if this is the scene in the 30 plus pints a week milk guzzlers houses

There has been some unedifying scenes here too, but as with a melj friend, I have three teenage boys and they drink / use in cereal about 40 pints a week!! So 6 pints would be about one day for us 😳

The only panic buy I could justify is for cashmere jumpers 😁

Panic buying is silly. But many are guilty of it at some point.

I panic bought Marmite during the "Great Marmite Scare" of 2016.

I still have six pots left.

I can’t believe all these posts about how much milk people drink or they NEED it. No one needs milk. There is nothing in milk that you can’t get from elsewhere. Cows milk contains hormones and pus (mastitis) and has an acidic effect on the body and takes calcium out to neutralise. Milk drinking countries have the highest rates of osteoporosis. I use to drink milk everyday but can’t stand it now. I’m just stating the facts so please no negativity.

Those aren't facts. No negativity but you need to research a bit more 😂

Show me the research, please

Local Tesco are rationing milk. Think we've stepped into a time warp......

1 6 pint? I buy two of them on a weekly basis as it is. (I don't panic buy though)