To wish people would stop being such selfish fucking bellends.

[Soapytoad]

That’s it really. Everyone else has to KEEP going to the shops to try and find essentials because the fucking knobheads have bough and keep buying up everything.

How can you social distance when you have to constantly hop from shop to shop for basic food for your children?! I’m in the shops more now than I was before this shitshow started.

I couldn’t give a fuck if I got Covid-19, but I don’t want my kids getting it, ever. I have to leave them at home while I go out! I live rurally so no take away, no drliveroo, no community and only 2 towns 15 miles in opposite directions. Still no fucking toilet roll, still no basic veg oil, no hand sanitiser, no basic vegetables, no meat. My kids eat before I do do at least I’m losing weight now, and we have now discovered those birds eye chicken burgers approved by mumsnet. (They are amazing btw!)

Fuck off selfish people and stop putting everyone else at risk you fucking selfish, fucking boggely eyed cuntvid pisswesels.

Language 🤐

Seriously, I feel your pain. I’m struggling to get basics too and have been too unwell to go shopping until yesterday (not Coronavirus related) so had run out of most things. I managed to get loo roll, a few tins and some fruit and vegetables though.

@HisBetterHalf not everyone is greedy and selfish and looking to strip the shelves. Staff are now deployed to implement social distancing so not enough staff to restock despite having the supplies.

Really not helpful to have that kind of attitude.

Excellent post @katseyes 👏

On Saturday kitchen this morning. One guest said she had bought peppers - never used them before but bought them at start of social distancing because she thought she might start using them now she is staying in. It beggars believe, people have and continue to buy food they don’t need or eat ‘just in case’. I can’t understand it.

@ThrowingGoodAfterBad
Brilliant post!

Yes @Hearhoovesthinkzebras where you are. Not everywhere. Do you actually bother to read beyond the first line of a post?

We saw a neighbour yesterday with her two children-late teens and early 20s, living at home- and her husband. Clearly had just been shopping and were carrying a bag and a 24 pack of loo roll each!
No idea where or how they had got it.

@gingersausage

What are you talking about?

Your post where you criticised me for believing everything I see online and you mentioned a lady in front of empty shelves, a fight in Tesco o we yellow labelled stock and the toilet roll from a US supermarket?

Is that what you're talking about now? If so I don't see how my answer doesn't suffice?

I know that the pictures that I have seen on my towns Facebook page are of the store that I work in. I don't se how it's relevant what pictures you've seen because when I've spoken about availability in the shops I use I am referring to the photos I am seeing and the things my manager and other staff are telling me.

Why is it relevant what pictures you've seen? I'm not commenting on those

@YorkshirePuddingsGreatestFan, don't feel bad about asking for help. If you did go out and catch the virus, it would require much more work and resources to look after you and the kids. Getting someone to shop for you is very unselfish. Stay safe.

katseyes7 You should be allowed to say this on a Public Service Broadcast! You are absolutely right!

There are lots of reasons why the shelves are depleted (but recovering)

• staff shortages in the supermarkets and supply chain
• families eating entirely in the home not outsourcing to schools, canteens, sandwich shops, fast food, restaurants. This increases demand on the supermarkets.
• the supply chain has not yet adjusted from commercial to domestic supply chains.
• people are buying more per shop to accomodate buying on behalf of vulnerable family, changes in work patterns, reduced frequency of shopping to reduce contact, stock up on dwindling supplies from illness or stock avaliability in previous weeks.

Caps on buying multiple items mean that there is not a free-for all on panic buying in bulk as some people did a couple of weeks ago.

The last 2-3 weeks have seen the biggest shift in social change and lifestyle since September 1939. Can we please deploy a little bit of critical thinking and more kindness and understanding than judgement and condemnation as everyone adapts to these changes. Most people are decent and just trying to get on with life.

Whilst undoubtedly there is a large body of sefish twats, I also think there are many people shopping reasonably but just with increased demands - mulitiply that be a whole country x just in time stock system, and there's nothing left.

We are a couple, no kids, both work FT quite long hours. From previous routine: coffee/croissant at desk x 5 days; lunch at work restaurant x 5 days, 2 or so meals out at least; suddenly we are eating at least 19 meals a week in the house, as compared to about 8 previously = around double our previous demand for supermarket food. We haven't stockpiled, we already were in the habit of doing 'big shops' and 'top up shops' so we had stuff in the freezer and cupboards.

I was dreading going to Tesco this morning we've been in quarantine for just over two weeks, but I have to go back to my frontline job tomorrow, so this was my only chance to shop. There was loads of fresh fruit and veg, meat, fish, milk, fresh juice, some pasta, there were even nappies. I had to buy things I wouldn't usually in some cases but all were reasonable substitutes, going to do some batch cooking today so it's less exhausting in the week when DH and I are on opposing shifts plus paperwork from home with a toddler. What was missing was a lot of processed foods; jarred sauces, frozen nuggets, pouches of cooked rice, oh and tins of baked beans were in short supply, eggs were limited to one box per customer, no flour but do much bread they were reducing it. If you can cook even basic meals from scratch it was actually fine. They were strictly controlling numbers one in one out, I did scan at you shop to minimise contact and they're was a station to while down trolley and handset before using. Hopefully this will start to become the norm.

Great Post katseyes. And I'm sorry you're putting up with that crap.

I was surprii I send, gig to Asda, straight in, pack of 9 bog rolls and to only thing not available was pasta. Veg, fruit, staple items, frozen foods all stocked. As we left a queue was forming.

I’d recommend Asda scan and go, you can use your own mobile phone rather than their scanners.

YANBU at all. DH had to traipse to ten different shops and pharmacies the other day to try getting some calpol for our toddler, he couldn’t find any. Ridiculous.

I agree with you apple - I used to make between 7 and 10 meals at home a week, about half of that just for the DCs because we were going out or getting a takeaway. We'd all have lunch either at school or work. Now we're buying for 14 full meals for 4, plus breakfasts and snacks, and I've been massively underestimating how much the DCs and DH eat for lunch so some of my planned lunch meals have ended up being doubled.

I read online that before this all started, 50% of food in the UK was eaten "out of the home" so school, work, restaurants, cafes etc. So that's half of all the food demand that has been rerouted to supermarkets. It's not surprising to me that shelves are still being stripped bare.

Our weekly food shop used to be around £80 with maybe £20 top-ups in the week, now it's more like £200 and that really is just one week's worth of food! I don't think we're spending more money - probably less as we're not eating out as much. It's just that restaurant/takeaway/lunch money has been redirected to the weekly shop.

I also need other stuff including fresh fruit and veg. My fridge has 2 onions, 2 cucumbers and 3 yoghurts in it!

You could make an enormous quantity of raita! Or is it strawberry yoghurt?

We've just been getting our local shop and partner has been the one doing it. He says the shops has everything and no shortages. Maybe it depends where you are? We are in a Scottish city...

It’s so much easier to hate your neighbours than worry it’s the system failing!

Truth is everyone needs to buy more at the moment.
Kids not having school dinners.
Parents not eating in the work canteen.
No going out for meals, fewer takeaways.
Trying to ensure you have 7-14 days worth of food and medicine at home.

A few people might be selfish stockpilers but most are exactly the same as you @Soapytoad.

People need to realise that at present, there is no 'usual' or 'normal'

Very well said @katseyes7

People also need to have a serious think about what "essentials" means (not directed at any of the posters on here - I'm just making a general comment, and yes, I realise that some people have allergies and special diets)

Essentials doesn't mean "all of the things you would normally choose to buy".

Essential travel doesn't mean going to 9 different shops because there was no hummus or they didn't have your favourite type of bread.

Here in France the restrictions are much harsher. Our local (5 miles away) supermarket is OK but by no means the biggest or the cheapest. We would normally choose to go further afield and shop elsewhere. But we can't. You must have a piece of paper with you that has your address, the reason you are out and the time you left home. Shopping for food must be at your nearest supermarket. Breaking the rules means a fine.

I haven't been out for two weeks now, apart from regular runs which have to be kept to within 1km of our address. It would have been nice to go with OH yesterday when he did the shopping - just for a change of scene, but if we had been stopped we would be fined for being two people in a car when it was not essential.

The shops are fairly well stocked - the only things missing were fresh milk and, bizarrely, burger buns. Neither of these are essential. Nice to have, but not essential. We'll have something else.

I have quite a small fridge, but you'd be amazed what I found at the back of it, and some stuff got thrown.
The "fresh" dhansak sauce, BB June 2018 was fine, but stuff that was beyond the sniff test, or covered in green mould, went in the bin.

Ew.. You didn't know that was in your fridge?

I kind of hope those who are still panic buying and clearing the shelves end up in financial trouble. Someone in this area bought over 200 rolls of toilet roll online. Who the fuck needs 200 rolls of toilet roll?! If you're that stupid, your financial screw ups are your own fault.

The shelves here are still looking fairly empty. Can't get tinned soup anywhere, obviously can't get toilet roll, can't get cleaning products, flour is always out of stock too.

Some shops are stopping folks buying so many things and so they should.

Did anyone read last week that an Asda shopworker started getting abuse and cheeseburgers thrown at her all because she told one guy that he couldn’t buy 12 cheeseburgers? so selfish of him.

My mum works in a shop and the workers are getting first dibs on food, which is fair, but they’re to stick to one of each thing, like milk, bread, etc., they’ve also been told not to serve anyone that’s abusive, which is normal obviously yet there will be more chance of being abused at the moment.

I’ll never understand the panic buying of toilet rolls, it’s not like you will be peeing more than normal and if you were at SAHP anyway then there is really no change.

People are just

@Whoareyoudududu why did he traipse the shops? That’s dangerous, you could have just called them and asked to hold a bottle for you 🤷🏻‍♀️ that’s what people I know have done.