Panic buyers

[Idliketoteachtheworldtosing1]

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.

we should take example on other countries like France where long-life milk is much more standard - but has a completely different taste from our one, why is that?

Even the French don't eat remotely as much bread as we do, some diets are shocking if you go through a loaf a day

I live very rurally. I have a loaf of bread and a couple of pint bottles permanently in my freezer. That's all year round as if I can't get out to a shop over the weekend/evening when there's no buses, I'm a bit screwed. I do try to remember to pick up on the way back from work but sometimes I don't want to miss my two hourly bus.

YANBU op, people were buying obscene amounts of bread and milk. I Dan understocking up a bit, but people went way over the top (unless they were buying for their whole street!).

We have had no deliveries since Wednesday here (SW). We ran out of things in stores on Thursday night. We'd have run out by Saturday even at normal consumption levels and I was most annoyed with myself for not "panic buying" carrots for my beef stew as there were none anywhere!

It's the same at Christmas when the shops shut for one or two days. One taxi driver had to refuse a fare because the couple had so much food it wouldn't fit in the car.

In any reasonably built up area it’s probably a bit absurd. But I live 4 miles down a single track lane from the nearest village with a shop.

This is my first day at home after spending the whole weekend at work because no other members of staff could get in so didn’t use up much bread or milk at home

Powdered milk

It's funny. Cows milk was all gone, but soya and coconut milk etc were all still in stock, people don't realise it's just as good if not better. I was very happy to see people had left my milk cartons alone and instead were fighting over the boob juice of another species

There's no doubt some people over reacted and bought too much, but when you don't know what someone's 'normal' is you can't look over their shoulder and know for sure that they're buying too much.

• DH has 8 slices of bread (sandwiches) eaten in 2 sittings during the day at work - builder. Then maybe a slice with his evening meal, and maybe a slice before bed with peanut butter if he's peckish.
• Young DD4 routinely has 3 slices of toast at breakfast with fruit and yog.
• I usually have a couple of slices for breakfast with her.
• There's a DD1 and a DD2 in the house in their 20s who sometimes have bread during the day.

That's about a loaf a day.

If i thought i wasn't going to get to the shops for 3 or 4 days i'd buy 5 loaves. I'm aware some people might think Panic buyer.

We get through a lot of milk too.
Bread and milk are cheap and filling.

fighting over the boob juice of another species

Ah, don't you just love the vegans who have to shoehorn their superiority into every thread.

We had constant updates from our local Co-Op about deliveries, we were in the red area last week for snow and conditions were truly awful. Bread and milk were most in demand but other fresh items like eggs, meat, fruit and veg were in short supply too. It's getting better now. We try not to panic buy, I keep a carton of UHT milk in the cupboard and when supplies are short we switch the kids onto not having cereal for breakfast and don't make milky sauces or other things.

I'd like to know how much milk and bread is being thrown away today because someone panic-bought too much on Wednesday. I very much doubt that much of it will be made into yoghurt/bread and butter pudding etc...

It was pathetic, people were being so selfish! The police were called to my local shop because of this (it was in the local rag)
I'm sure children could go a day or two having juice or water, my son loves milk and making smoothies but I was sensible and told him he was limited to one a day whilst the weather was bad.
I think the comment about some people enjoying a drama is right, especially round here.
Going off topic slightly I saw a post on Facebook where the local arseholes were standing on the roundabout throwing ice balls at cars and even opening their doors and throwing them inside, it was very icy so cars had to go very slowly round the roundabout, I despair I really do!!

We didn’t buy extra of anything. We did our usual weekly shop, then the snow came, we trotted over to our local store for some mid week regulars like fresh bread, milk, some extra veggies for a stew. The shelves were looking pretty empty, but we got everything we needed without buying loads of extras, like I said we did buy some extra stew veg (leeks, a turnip, big carrots and a bag of pearl barley)
When we ran out of bread, I baked, had we ran out of milk, I’d have opened the long life coconut milk I have ‘for emergencies ‘

I don't drink milk because I'm lactose intolerant, but as we're rural I always have a couple of carton's of UHT in. I also make bread so have milk powder.

@k2p2k2tog Mon 05-Mar-18 07:56:50
fighting over the boob juice of another species

Ah, don't you just love the vegans who have to shoehorn their superiority into every thread.

I drink coconut and soy and rice and oat and almond milks. [and vegies and salads and fruit and breads]
I am also a huge carnivore and love my meats.
Nothing to do with being a veg

There didn't seem to be any panic buying round here.

@expatinscotland same, got the UHT milks, all kinds and bread making ingredients.Tinned meats and canned veg and canned fruit. and the old BBQ if we are in a black out.

I'm in Sth. Aust. Regular blackouts here. ughh

We couldn't get the car out, our steep hill never gets gritted! Walked to the local small Tesco on Friday. Got milk 2 pints, and small loaf. There were a few with loaded trolleys, but bread had been limited to two loaves each, which seemed fair. Walked up again Saturday for a paper and some fruit, there was bread and milk available, no problems.

Ocado have barely any milk left! Why are people panic buying from a delivery company?? If they can deliver, you can get to a shop....
(I realise some of ocado's stock issues will be because their deliveries couldn't get to them but people must have been ordering more than usual too)

I always mean to 'panic' buy or rather get there before the panic buyers do, but I forget.

Like most people in a town or city we live within walking distance of at least four shops and we're coastal, so the chances of being actually snowed in are remote, yet still, at the mere whiff of bad weather or Christmas, the shops runs out of bread and milk and I end up missing out when I go to do my midweek top-up.

DD2 had to have pasta in her lunchbox because none of the shops had bread.

It is selfish, and also baffling. Why do people in towns and cities, over react so much to bad weather? I can understand rural people and the elderly buying an extra loaf in bad weather but the vast majority of folk are still able to get to a shop fairly easily.

The issue is not really the panic buying, but that the tankers were unable to get to the farms to collect milk and still can't in some areas. So the supply chain is very low on stock, expect problems of milk supply to continue to the end of this week at least.

DH brought home a bottle of milk from work when the office was closing,and I had got my usual amount for the week on Monday. We rationed it a little and still have a bottle to open so I'm not shopping until tomorrow.

We don't normally eat much bread, but finished this week's loaf midweek. DH managed to get a loaf in a local bakery on his way home from work Thursday, which is gone. And he and DD walked to local Lidl with a bakery on Saturday for a loaf and some rolls (neighbourhood BBQ was planned but then postponed due to illness- so we ate the burgers and sausages for dinner across Saturday and Sunday nights).

Otherwise I bought a chicken and some rashers. And more eggs. And we used the freezer and cupboard supplies.

We were far from hungry. There's plenty more if it kept going. But seeing the state of supermarket and small stores shelves locally was surreal! And I wonder just how much of those emergency supplies will end up spoiled and thrown out this week?!

I drink coconut and soy and rice and oat and almond milks

And so do many others, it's personal choice. But most of them don't need to make inflammatory statements about "the boob juice of another species", they just say that they prefer oat/almond or whatever.

@Idliketoteachtheworldtosing1I saw a post on Facebook where the local arseholes were standing on the roundabout throwing ice balls at cars and even opening their doors and throwing them inside, it was very icy so cars had to go very slowly round the roundabout

What the .............😰😱😳🤐

If there was a real crisis watch out. You aren't going to die if you don't have bread and milk and it selfish to grab it for yourself 'just in case'