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.

It's not panic buying; it's the nature of the just-in-time delivery model.

Let's say I usually buy three bottles of milk I shop weekly and can't get to the shop every day. There's possible problems ahead so I get an extra bottle just one extra bottle, not panic-buying, right?

Except that's a third more milk than I usually buy that week. Individually not a problem but if everyone does it then collectively more than the supermarkets have planned for.

Does that mean I shouldn't buy the extra couple of days stuff? No, because I live in a small commuter village (no shops!) down a steep hill and as it happens we were snowed in for three or four days. When we did get out, the deliveries that should have refilled the shops had failed. So, we used my extra bottle of milk. If I hadn't bought it, someone who hadn't got snowed in and didn't think ahead would have got my extra bottle of milk. One of us was going to have to go without, and why should I pay for your lack of foresight?

I bought some of Sainsbury's own brand "rich and creamy " jersey milk as that's all they had so I'll see what that's like in my coffee 🤔

Sounds good for coffee.

Hairycoo, I'm not clearing out the local shops. My pantry last ages as I buy all that stuff in Costco and the freezer is usually full as it's cheaper to buy in bulk from a butcher than from the supermarket. But you don't have to be having 6 months of stuff in; just having extra bags of pasta/rice/stock and frozen veg and meat isn't expecting a lot. Especially when they were warning us well in advance of bad weather. Everyone should always have some long life milk in the cupboard for the 'just in case' moments. I bake my own bread, but if you know you don't then keep a loaf in the freezer.

DH is just back from Tesco - ALL bread clear except for naan bread! Isn't that odd?

Meant to add that a litre of milk is the usual amount I buy each week as it's the gold top unhomogenized stuff, I won't drink anything else and if shops didn't have any, I would have made do without and drunk my tea black or switched to green tea for a few days.

I agree that milk and bread should be rationed in severe weather. I keep thinking about the WW2 rationing and think this country would never cope with it again.

Yeah, we went without cereal too whilst greedy creatures hoarded

t is selfish in the extreme for whatever reason. There is no defence for that sort of behaviour. None

Have you people had some kind of collective stroke? You are shreiking at people who bought the correct amount of milk for their families until they could reasonably next get some.
The exact same thing you do every single time you get to the shops.

I know MN has gone to the dogs but youre just making things up to shout at people for now.

'Panic buying' is just a bullshit media term, like 'Snowmageddon'. It's just folks stocking up on stuff in case they get snowed in. Sensible if you ask me.

Saoir - normal buying is to be expected. It was some of your comments that others felt aggrieved with. You indicated as long as you were OK stuff everyone else and gave the impression it was every man for themselves.

You also seem to have a massive chip on your shoulder about something or other and are resorting to name calling and swearing.

Hey ho.

As a pp said - this is how "Just in time" delivery works. Anything slightly above standard predicted sales will clear the shelves and make it look like panic buying. If the weather halts deliveries it just looks even worse.
This is why I always have extra in - either in the freezer or in less appetising dried form for milk.
I also grow a lot of my own veg.
I'm prepped for heat, gas and light going out as well.

Saoir - normal buying is to be expected. It was some of your comments that others felt aggrieved with. You indicated as long as you were OK stuff everyone else and gave the impression it was every man for themselves.

They read them wrong. I said all along it was normal buying, just concentrated.

You also seem to have a massive chip on your shoulder about something or other and are resorting to name calling and swearing

Yeah its weird that people get annoyed when comments are made about their SN kids, and they are called awful names, isn't it? So odd

No excuse if in England. Every weather forecast said it would last three days and then it would melt. I can see daffodils now that the snow has gone.

10 days of panic is all it needs and then we are done. By then the police, army, food delivery, and emergency services will all go home to their loved ones. By then it will be sheep stealing and neighbour against neighbour.

Ha!
Wait til this time next year and the clusterfuck that is brexit!...

My Tesco delivery driver today says I had the last of the milk and it wasn't even the stuff I wanted but it's the best as I was going to get because they had run out again after the delivery this morning. Many people didn't get milk with their shopping and all business shoppers didn't get any at all. I didn't mind about the milk but I was upset they didn't have the Easter egg I wanted in stock and sent a crappy replacement. I declined it 😉

Madness! I saw the weather forecast as did everyone else. Bought and extra bottle of milk and some bread with my weekly shop and we survived. Didn't go out again till it thawed (nearly ran out of logs though)

I reckon that will be very good for coffee BacktoBaileys

Where I am in Yorkshire we had three days of really bad snow then it began disintegrating and today it is pretty much gone.

Last week I went to the supermarket to find the entire bread shelf was empty. Not even one straggly loaf left, all gone . Absolutely preposterous. It were as if people were preparing for an avalanche.

I'll have to wait until the morning to try it because if I have coffee now I will be up all night. I'll report back.. maybe I've found an unexpected delight?

saoirsesoige, which SN kids comment offend you?

If the world ends tomorrow. I'd think all kids are equal, SN or not and they should get bread and milk first, equally.

If the world ends tomorrow. I'd think all kids are equal, SN or not and they should get bread and milk first, equally

So please do explain how I'm the worst person in the world simply for buying enough milk to last my children a week?

btw, the ugliest disabilist comment was deleted, as was my post copying it. So can you see it must have been offensive.
No apology from the vile poster though.

saoirsesoige it is how you come across not what you said specifically. It was sod all other people and their kids. You sound like the type who will buy 100 pints to stockpile because your child has SN and fuck the other kids because as you said yourself it is not your business.

You buy what you need for your children. You know what your children need.
It doesn't hurt to have a cushion of supplies in for your family anyway.
You decide.

saoirsesoige it is how you come across not what you said specifically. It was sod all other people and their kids. You sound like the type who will buy 100 pints to stockpile because your child has SN and fuck the other kids because as you said yourself it is not your business

Thats not at all what I said, its your own chip showing. If you actually look I got jumped all over for no good reason.
Also since I specifically said I bought no more than a usual weeks amount, just all in one go rather than daily, how do I sound like someone who would buy 100 pints?

This is just one of those threads where one poster takes another wrongly and then loads pile in to be bitches to them. With some added disabilism.
Should be ashamed of yourselves. Giving a mother a kicking for buying a normal amount of fucking milk!