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!!

@justanotherneighinparadise

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.

Operation Stack is currently in operation due to industrial action:

www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-sussex-54281023

It annoyed me all the free from aisles were stripped last time. I’m coeliac and can live without the mainly dire bread, and already had some pasta, that I actually still haven’t used up, plus can eat dairy etc, but some people need completely free from and rely on it. I think it’s appalling that folk think it’s ok to strip that one small aisle to finish their wall to wall stockpile. I do think most of these people will have the wartime slogans rolling off their tongue and all over their walls, if they were visible beneath bog rolls and pasta. I did hope those getting bread/biscuits found how dire some of that produce can be, but then they’d probably waste it. I also had to fight round shops to get basics for elderly parents who struggle when shoved out of routine so couldn’t really accept subs from a local shop, and try and obtain bog roll for my isolating disorganised daughter. God knows what will happen if we get genuine shortages ever - didn’t see much digging in last time except under supermarket shelves for stray trays of peaches.

Lots of aisles were empty in Asda on Monday

That would be my local Asda long before the pandemic - they’re just rubbish at refilling shelves (not to mention stock rotation so they put the newest stock at the front)

All fine in my local Aldi and Tesco today, the lad on the Aldi toll told me that at the start of the week there were a lot of excess bog rolls being bought but it had all calmed down after Boris did his address to the nation.

So hopefully it will chill out

Can we please just stop with these threads though.

I got my weekly delivery from Sainsbury's today, they had everything and it was a full weeks shopping. Maybe it is because I'm in the south west and it seems a bit unreal here as numbers have been so low.

Yes, supermarkets our way have empty shelves.
I have been slowly restocking for the past couple of weeks fortunately.
My prediction is that things like washing powder and fabric softener will be next....and keep your petrol tanks filled because it will be petrol after that. Don't say I didn't tell you......

We always buy 45 or 72 toilet rolls anyway. Saves keep buying them

@SomewhereEast

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 bought 24 packets of pasta today in Lidls and 48 loo rolls. It all went straight to the food bank baskets though. For what it is worth they were stocked to the rafters and had ample supplies.

Making sure you have enough in to keep you going for a couple of weeks self-isolation, sensible, but hardly news and not something that needs doing right now.

Stocking up now because people are scaremongering over potential lockdowns, daft. The shops stayed open last time, so will in the future.

Curiously DH did a routine trip to Costco this week, it had been a couple of months so our usual cycle was due and he didn't get anything extra/ unusual. He bought our usual pack of bogrolls. The next day the local paper was scaremongering and someone put up a photo comment supposedly of the bare bogroll section on the evening that DH was there. DH said stocks were normal, neither totally full nor anywhere near depleted and no evidence of bulkbuying their multi-packs which people werw doing in March (chatted to the demonstraters at the time who said people raced through at opening and filled their trollies in seconds)

We routinely keep high stocks because dyspraxic chidren are not famed for their economy with wiping...

These sort of threads seem to be created by people who WANT panic buying madness.

Robe honest

All the posters saying stop drawing attention to it are bumping the thread and drawing attention to it too!

Not funny, sorry.

I may yet be glad that I accidentally bought twice the number of cheeky wipes we needed in a postnatal fug

@RoysFrankenstein

Panic buying is stupid, keeping your freezer/ cupboards/ toiletries as well stocked as you can afford, taking advantage of bogof or half price deals all year round is sensible

Exactly.

I have a good supply of everything I might need (I hope) if I get ill, because I'm not going to trouble people to go out & get shopping for me, when I can be well
prepared myself. And like in March, when I was well prepared, it means I don't have to run around like a headless chicken trying to find loo roll.

Being prepared is not a crime!

Buying trolley loads of hand sanitiser,or whatever, to sell at a profit bloody well
should be.

Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs, isn't it?

I'm just in the door from Sainsbury's and it was fully stocked and quiet.

It’s cheaper to buy bulk when it’s on offer

I look on it as a boost for food banks in 3 months.

FFS! Oops!

To be honest I suspect that small shops are stocking up and selling at inflated prices. I've seen that happen. I stood in Sainsburys trying to get two bottles of hand wash but couldn't because of people loading their trolley with dozens of the stuff. Only occurred to me when I got home.

@WanderingMilly petrol prices went DOWN though in lockdown so why would ppl need to stock up on that??

@SomewhereEast

Honestly, if the UK didn't run out of essentials in March, when we were abruptly plunged into hard lockdown and 90% of the population were in full "OMG We're all going to die!" panic mode, then we're not going to now are we??? 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.

This really made me laugh!

I now feel guilty buying a pack of spaghetti today. I could of perhaps waited until I next went to the shop but I was worried about stock piling people so I thought 1 cant hurt.
I also brought a 24 pack of loo roll but we did need that. Everything else I generally have enough for a couple of weeks worth.

I bet none of the morons that panic bought flour and yeast last time ever made any bread at all. Whereas we who make all our own couldn’t for ages 😡

@MsJinks

It annoyed me all the free from aisles were stripped last time. I’m coeliac and can live without the mainly dire bread, and already had some pasta, that I actually still haven’t used up, plus can eat dairy etc, but some people need completely free from and rely on it. I think it’s appalling that folk think it’s ok to strip that one small aisle to finish their wall to wall stockpile. I do think most of these people will have the wartime slogans rolling off their tongue and all over their walls, if they were visible beneath bog rolls and pasta. I did hope those getting bread/biscuits found how dire some of that produce can be, but then they’d probably waste it. I also had to fight round shops to get basics for elderly parents who struggle when shoved out of routine so couldn’t really accept subs from a local shop, and try and obtain bog roll for my isolating disorganised daughter. God knows what will happen if we get genuine shortages ever - didn’t see much digging in last time except under supermarket shelves for stray trays of peaches.

Quite. I have to cater for dairy, soya, egg, gluten, oat and coconut allergies in my household and last time it was a nightmare because all free from aisles had been stripped bare. I hope they hated their crumbly vile cakes