To be surprised that some friends are buying extra food because of Brexit?

[abacucat]

I suspect that specific foods may get be in short supply for a short period of time, but there will still be plenty of food in the shops. It is not going to be Armageddon. So this seemed an over reaction to me. Or am I going to be that person in the disaster movie who is laughing saying everyone is over reacting, who ends up dead when the disaster finally hits?

And it's a well-known fact that everyone in Britain lives within half an hour of a Eurostar terminal

"I'm somewhere else where everything is perfectly normal and will remain predictable, and you're all making SUCH A FUSS"

“Hop on the Eurostar”

1. they will put up prices if there is a rush to do that! To the point very few people will have that option
2. we will all still be trying to hold down our jobs and our normal lives
3. I suspect I am not the only person on here by a long stretch who will be extra busy af work / asked to man some sort of emergency centre if Brexit really does cause chaos.

So no, we can’t just “hop on a Eurostar”.

Perhaps Praguemum doesn't realise that the eurostar isn't exactly easily accessible for many people, starting from London and all and that it has a finite capacity. It already frequently gets booked up.

Exactly, would be at least a two hour drive for us and we live in the south of England!

Hop on the Eurostar and stock up in France if it gets annoying. Here in NZ, we have to drive for an hour to buy French Camembert anyway. Lol.

Hopping on the Eurostar is a 10 hour return trip and would cost me £100s if not done months in advance. Lol.

I'm waiting until the vote this week but will start stocking up then. I don't want to go mad but a few things so I don't have to get caught up in it closer to the time of people do panic.

My local newspaper did a piece about stockpiling for Brexit and people went absolutely nuts. We're in a leave area and they do not want to accept that food shortages are a possibility. The last thing I want is to be stuck in a supermarket swarming with idiot leavers on 2nd April. (Disclaimer: not all leavers are idiots, just these particular ones who commented on the newspaper article)

Thank you GummyGoddess and WellBHoise .

Hop on the Eurostar and stock up in France if it gets annoying

Helpful tips Brexit analogy retranslated for the benefit who live in NZ from those who live in many parts of the UK.

"If you live in Dunedin do your essential shopping in Auckland."

Alternatively look at a map.

Hop on the Eurostar = let them eat cake 😁

I have just thought of a way to get my cynical dp involved in my preparations - for his birthday this month, I have bought him a homebrew kit

I just checked, the cheapest fare available on 30th march is £29 each way to Calais. Of course you then have to add on the cost of getting to and from St Pancras, likewise in France for the shops. Hardly a viable option for the 67 million people living in the UK.

Lol at jumping on the eurostar. I'm trying to work out how much I need to save up for three days in London. It's looking like it might be cheaper to fly than go by train and even then the travel will be over £150 alone.

It might not be much more expensive to fly to NZ and stock up there. Plus you could have a lovely holiday. Travelling by rail in the UK is very expensive, you know.

I think I've done all the stockpiling I need to now, apart from toilet paper, pasta and rice. I might get them today...

Sage advice from somebody literally on the other side of the world. But why not, after all it has about as much relevance to reality as "if you buy an extra tin of beans in January it will cause a shortage in March" or "there won't be shortages because BMWs and prosecco" or "we love shortages because we have a sadomasochistic fetish about hardship, which we call BlitzSpirit".

Hop on the Eurostar and stock up in France if it gets annoying. Here in NZ, we have to drive for an hour to buy French Camembert anyway

yeah.... Not exactly practical if you live outside of London, I live very up north so a 11 hour car journey one way just to St Pancras with no stops! But even if you lived close its over a 2 hour journey one way, so a whole day of grocery shopping once you factor in coming back, the actual shopping, getting to the shops and stations!

Don't Easyjet and Ryanair have flight sales on atm?

Just a thought though. If too many people get the Eurostar or fly to the EU to do their stockpiling, will this mean there will be food shortages in France and Germany too because of the sudden upsurge in demand?

Elements you missed 'solve the obesity problem'.

No I will just eat whatever or less of it. The major supermarkets and restaurants aren't sitting there waiting to run out and for their profits to plummet. They would of already sourced the basics from elsewhere or been stock piling for months already.

Genuinely lolled at jump on the Eurostar. I reckon I can just about get to Paris and back in the same day if I give myself 2 hrs from getting off the Eurostar to needing to be back on it agin.

Absolute bargain at £140 and the whole trip takes just under 17.5 hrs.

Where are these magic warehouses that can hold lots of food including fresh meat and veg?

And how much does it cost to store this stuff? And how can they absorb the cost and not pass it on?

Fresh food ..... I know of several new metal box fridge warehouses that have gone up
meat is easy to store
veg is harder
And how can they absorb the cost and not pass it on?
THey will pass it on

They will pass the cost on obviously and we will just suck it up like we always do. As for meat I don't eat it and would be glad to to see the back of the meat n dairy industry. We eat far too much of it anyway and it's a cruel vile archaic industry.

But if anyone thinks that mega pharmaceutical, banking, food, building, oil industries etc haven't been brain storming, forming plans stocking up and buying up land stock and space then they are very naive. Whilst we've all been bickering with each other they've been getting stuff done.

I missed this news story this week:

amp.cnn.com/cnn/2019/01/11/uk/no-deal-brexit-shops-additional-security-gbr-scli-intl/index.html?__twitter_impression=true
Police advise stores to hire extra security in case of Brexit panic-buying

London (CNN) British police have advised retailers to consider hiring additional security to cope with fears of food shortages and other goods in the event of a no-deal Brexit.

London's Metropolitan Police said concerns about shortages of goods could lead "to a significant increase in customers," in a statement emailed to CNN, and suggests stores should consider planning for extra security.

The statement said that while "no advice has been issued in relation to looting," the police are "having these conversations in order to minimize the demands on policing from any resulting large crowds or queues at shops as part of our regular civil contingency engagement with businesses and partners." The advisory was first reported by Politico.

www.politico.eu/article/uk-police-advise-shops-to-hire-extra-security-for-no-deal-brexit/
UK police advise shops to hire extra security for no-deal Brexit
Fears about shortages may lead to panic-buying and crowd control problems for retailers.