To say stop. Just stop!!

[PinkiOcelot]

My daughter has just popped to Tesco for a couple of bits and pieces. She’s just sent me a photo of the pasta aisle. The shelves are bare!!
Surely, we’re not having to go through that again. Not being being able to buy a packet of pasta or toilet roll because some people are filling their garages to the rafters with the stuff.
Seriously, there’s no need!!

Well threads like this and being horrified on social media just adds fuel to the fire because people think there’s shortages so better stock up, thereby adding to the problem.

I had my online delivery today - no toilet rolls, baked beans or fish fingers and no substitutes. The driver said he'd had more substitutions of late.

I could cheerfully never eat pasta again, mind you.

God, really??

Thing is though, it’s not about people buying trolley fulls of stuff. If ever person just buys one extra packet of toilet roll and one extra packet of pasta then factories have double their production with no notice. Before we know it, everything runs out very quickly.

Shop near my work that we all pop into kept some essentials for me and colleagues knowing we were all working and couldn’t get out to shop
Basics, pasta, toilet paper beans
Christ knows it was a huge help

Bog roll shelves were looking bare this morning - managed to get our usual size pack (we don't have space to hoard in this house) but it was getting down to only the quilted posh stuff enriched with fairy tears and angel farts that is a total waste to wipe yer arse with only.

@Laiste

Oh God really?

sigh

See, what are we to do, when we hear that something we use/eat regularly as a cheap staple is in low supply? We'll buy a bag when we're next out. A bag more than we might have done this month. And that's all it takes it seems, to tip the balance into low stock.

How many of us are really noble enough to think no, i wont buy that 'just in case' bag tomorrow, i'll hold my head up high and go without pasta when the shops run out?

If I was almost out of pasta and planning on cooking pasta on my weekly menu I would buy my usual bag of pasta. If I didn’t have a pasta dish on my weekly menu I wouldn’t buy any pasta.

I eat rice everyday, sometimes for more than one meal. I went over three weeks without rice, it was fine.

Oh FFS, not this shit again?!

I've been in several shops this week and have seen no gaps on shelves at all.

Weird.

I’ve been to four supermarkets in the past couple of days (looking for a particular item, not stockpiling I hasten to add).

No shortages of anything that I could see.

And photos of empty loo roll aisles are SO last spring.

Threads like this are part of the problem.

Gotta love a nation which fills its homes with 'Keep calm & carry on' tat and then panic buys bog roll because the pubs are closing early.

I do question the motives of people who start threads like this.

@OverTheRainbow88

I feel the same about these threads... they just cause more panic so please do stop

Yup

This kind of thread is part of the whole problem.

All people are going to do now is stock up on pasta...

We always buy the multipack of loo rolls 18 or 24 and there were tons of big packs when we bought some on Sunday. They were inside the door of the supermarket as if they were being promoted. We were down to put last roll so not panic buying but just following our normal buying pattern I am actually glad we got them. Try smaller local shops, they were a godsend in March.

Threads do not cause panic, people purposefully buying too much causes panic
The act of commenting on an event is not itself causal

Never mind not being able to get specific items, I'm back to not even being able to book a delivery.

In our house of 9, that's going to mean extremely counterproductive daily visits to the supermarket to keep up with even essentials.

I went shopping today and Morrisons was fine. In the north west

@SentientAndCognisant

Threads do not cause panic, people purposefully buying too much causes panic The act of commenting on an event is not itself causal

It makes people think they need to start panic buying when in their area, everything could be totally fine.

You’re very naive to think this sort of thread has no effect at all.

Yes Ive seen it on the news. Lots of aisles were empty in Asda on Monday

Of course threads cause panic. I read this thread and thought - shit! Is it? Do I need to buy more in my next shop?

Where as actually I've had no problem with getting my usual stuff. If wouldn't have even occurred to me if I hadn't read this thread

Brexit and the 70 mile haulage queues haven’t even hit us yet!! If we add panic buying to that we are well and truly screwed.

Poundstretcher had tons of loo-roll yesterday, sometimes it pays to think out of the box!