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.

We do a large shop each moth and have it delivered. In that shop is all the heavy stuff (pet food, washing powder, tins, cartons of juice etc) but we also get a couple of cartons of long life milk and some part baked bread (which lasts for a good few weeks). Just that would make a big difference to a short term emergency like last week.

Of course if we had proper preparations for what was a couple of inches of snow for about 80% of the population, there would be minimal concern.

Some people would struggle and panic if shops were closed on Boxing Day as I wish they are were.

Just hope no food is thrown away and wasted.

It's not so much the morality of it I'm objecting to Kursk- it's the stupidity! It would be different If the shortages weren't so short term. If they thought they'd get £20 for a few pints of milk, when it will be back in the shops within two days anyway then they're idiots. Anyone stupid enough to buy milk of dubious freshness for those prices from a randomer on Facebook is either an idiot or needs to look at their milk habit.

Squishysquirmy I agree, it comes down to a lack of planning, organization and control.

People are unwilling to adapt

[b]Of course if we had proper preparations for what was a couple of inches of snow for about 80% of the population, there would be minimal concern.[/b]

It doesn't actually matter if 80% of the population got two inches if those remaining 20% are.. where the cows are. Farmers, strangely enough, usually live in rural areas. Rural roads tend to be those last dug out in snow. What proper preparations exactly would you like to prevent this; emergency London cows for times of low supply?

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
Come off it. I read those posts and she said nothing remotely disablist.

saoirsesoige

did you not read that was in reponse to? It IS my job to feed my children, and was in response to being told I should let mine go hungry so someone else could have it after me.
In all honesty, would you do that?

You are distorting what people have said.

You know there are more ways to healthily feed your family on ingredients other than just bread and milk!

we have lots of flour and i always have coffee mate and long life milk tucked away so as long as the power doesn't go out we are prepped for a little while 👍🏼

It’s also not rocket science to bake your own bread in these situations. They managed to do it 2000 years ago.

I've been surprised that living in a rural town our supplies haven't been badly hit - yet. There are however still 8ft drifts along smaller lanes so there will be plenty of milk going to waste until the tankers can get up there.

I just hope ground coffee has been restocked! Priority. But I have two packs in store, plus meals pre-cooked, and some loaves and milk in the freezer. We would manage for a week or so. Probably some odd meals.

Why on earth are people buying disgusting UHT and powdered milk when ordinary milk can be frozen with absolutely no problem?

We had bought our usual amount of milk (we have a toddler who still needs milk) and some uht milk. I had been planning to batch cook fish pie, but it needs a lot of milk and I couldn’t justify taking the last 2 litre carton in the store for my fish pie. We had fish curry instead! Yummy

Emergency London Cows??!!

Mammalamb -- rushed out of stasis for milking only when supply is blocked, clearly :D Or we could keep them in London Zoo!

Definitely madness. As it happens I had a supermarket delivery on Thursday, so haven't actually had a problem, but if I had a choice between bread and milk from the freezer and a trip out in the snow with the added entertainment of a food fight, I know what I'd choose.

I get cross that so much of it will be thrown away too.

I buy 20 pints of milk every week.
I do a weekly shop, get enough for the week. Todays milk has a use by date of 18th March, so buy next Monday, when I shop again, it will still be well within date - but we will have drunk it all.

Family of 5. Some cereal eaters, (ds has 1 pint per day on cereal, so that is 7 pints in a week) some milk drinkers, including my dutch husband who drinks a lot of milk, I estimate 4 pints per week. Other dc also drink milk, and they all like hot chocolate in cold weather.

I didn't buy extra for the snowy weekend, as I already had the weeks shopping in.

Asda was empty of bread and all the people in the shop assumed it was due to bulk buying, but I have a friend who works there said it was simply because there had been no bread deliveries. The warburtons fatcory for example is in south wales, which had a red alert and was snow bound from Thursday to saturday.

I just don't understand the panic buying. It's selfish and pathetic.

Don't people have any food in their homes? I have at least 1 loaf of bread in the freezer and at least 1 bottle of milk. If I run out I can drink black tea and coffee. I can also make bread or, shock horror, eat something else. No one has to eat toast for breakfast and a sandwich for lunch. I have tins of soup in my cupboard or I could make some - I have plenty of lentils, chickpeas, frozen veg, tinned tomatoes etc.

How likely was it that any of use were going to be snowed in for any length of time? As I said, pathetic

Come off it. I read those posts and she said nothing remotely disablist

Funny how they got deleted then, wasn't it? And reported by someone else, as I didn't. I'd rather every saw it.

I am always quite surprised how much milk people go through. We have it on cereal, in tea and coffee, I make a latte most days but we only go through maybe a bit more than a 4 pint carton between 4 of us a week. I’d never drink a glass of milk and my kids might do occasionally but again not big milk drinkers.

I don't even drink milk, I'm lactose intolerant!

mydog I do have quite a lot of food at home, but then I am a food hoarder and have experienced being cut off without electricity or water for 5 days. That was after an earthquake when lived abroad.

Lots of people, DH included, laugh at me having an abundance of non perishable food. I don’t care what they think.

No not guilty. I live less than one mile from the shop. I bought one loaf of bread. I dont see the point in panic buying as in my case it would be a complete waste.

Now if I ran out of diet coke it would be a different story lol