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!!

Was waiting for my DH to collect me after doing my theory test on Tuesday. The testing center is right near a Farm Foods and I stood and watched a woman put ten packs of 24 toilet rolls in her car. Literally 240 rolls she took on that one day, absolutely get fucked.

Of course commenting on behaviour isn’t causal
You need to have that impetus,that suggestibility for the message to work

Time to get the pasta maker back out of the top cupboard again...

You know a thing?

I don't give a Pygmy flying fuck about what 'others' think about my shopping habit.

Not one.

I have, since June 16, come to the realisation that much of what passes for 'critical thinking', in our private and public spheres- is horse shit.

So, guess what? In MN parlance, I'll 'do me'; and you can 'do you'. Or 'do one', whatever that means....😂

So I will 'stock up'. Or 'get another one in, just in case'. I'm not 'panicking', I'm being prepared, as best I can.

I don't care what you think. I can't look out for everyone. But I don't vote Tory, either. Who don't care about anyone.

Covid has chucked a nasty curve ball into this mix, but Brexit is what will do for us. Easily hidden among the latest Covid 'OMG!'... But, currently, if I take 2 packets of loo roll, not one; supply chains will swiftly fill that gap.

Come January, the necessary supply chains aren't there.

So, guess what? As a Remainer, and non-Tory voter, (and a coalface NHS worker, through 'all this')- none of this is 'on me'.

If, with this backdrop, I decide to look closer to home, not societally, that's because our 'society' decided Brexit and Tory was best.

Own it, or protest. Like I have, for three, fruitless years. I did what I could. My conscience is clear.

So please don't attempt to stick any 'moron' or 'selfish' labels on me.

'We' voted for this incompetence (I didn't). I will now do what I can for my family.

Your labels aren't sticking on me.

@MadameMeursault

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 😡

Or it was bought by people who make their own bread and the shortage was mostly packaging issues.

I never ran out. It took me a while to finish the 16kg bag of bread flour I bought from an online supplier (and then the 10kg one from Ocado) and I've still not finished the big bag of yeast despite making bread frequently. It wasn't that hard to track down thanks to threads on here.

What I don't understand is that surely the "panic buyers" didn't come close to running out of anything before they could shop again, why do they think it will be different now? I could understand it first time round as it was all unknown and therefore "scary".

[quote BumholeJ]@Tanfastic “bog standard lasagna sheets”... What is this I hear? A pasta product that doubles as loo roll??? [/quote]
😂😂

I was always baffled about toilet roll, genuinely baffled, people were more hysterical about toilet roll last time than food or drink! I don't understand?

I am however very thankful that since the previous panic buying episode and now, my daughter no longer needs formula, because it took me a whole day to find some last time and it honestly reduced me to tears 😭

So please don't attempt to stick any 'moron' or 'selfish' labels on me.

you just said you didn't care what people could say...

@SoupDragon

What I don't understand is that surely the "panic buyers" didn't come close to running out of anything before they could shop again, why do they think it will be different now? I could understand it first time round as it was all unknown and therefore "scary".

they might not be the same ones. People who ran out last time are

Why would anyone not have enough food to last a couple of weeks is beyond me anyway - not talking about people who financially can't afford any spare obviously. Things like dry pasta is something you use when you can't be arsed, so why would you rush to the shop to grab a pack that day?
Things happen, you get busy, you get sick, deliveries get delayed or cancelled. WHY would you not have enough food at all time (again, when financially possible)?

I haven't been inside a supermarket since March. In terms of online ordering, there have been limits on quantities of items, though the items & the quantities change from week to week. I assumed the supermarkets were in control of their stiocks via these limits.

Can we stop, just stop the threads about stockpiling.

Most people are buying one extra packet, hardly selfish behaviour.

We bought two lots of loo roll today. We had nearly run out of the last one as as dh has built a downstairs toilet through lock down which he's decorating this weekend, we thought it extra was advisable.
With 3 toilets in the house it is easy to run out.

"It's not on me..." it is you know. This is nothing to do with Brexit, the government etc, it's 100% down to a percentage of the population who are hard of thinking and selfish and don't care that they will leave the elderly and vulnerable unable to get essentials. It's on you if someone who can only afford to shop in small quantities can't buy their essentials, or if an elderly person who can't carry much gets into difficulties. It's all on you.

I’m in Melbourne and when our stage 4 lockdown (v v strict) was announced back at the beginning of August the shelves were immediately cleared of loo roll by panic buyers.
The supermarkets were very quick to reimpose the ‘two limit’ for things like pasta, flour, chicken, beef, frozen fruit (!) which meant there was enough for everyone. People soon realised they weren’t going to starve and shelves were restocked as usual and, despite still being in stage 4 (until Sunday, fingers crossed) the panic buying stopped very quickly and the limits were lifted. Hopefully UK supermarkets will act in the same way.

I didn't panic buy anything last time around, and I won't do it this time either. I will make do and mend,

I blame the supermarkets. As soon as there was the slightest indication of stockpiling they should have put a stop to it.

I can't get a delivery slot from Morrisons.

All fine here, even had loo roll on special offer.

The Tesco nearest us is considering putting 3 item limits back on things. Which is an absoute pain in the arse as a big family.

If we weren't well prepped last time (I always have 4/6 weeks cupboard and freezer food in through) we'd have been fucked. There were no delivery slots, youngest DD was on the shielding list so just going to the shops every day was a good option, but you can't feed a house of 9 (that became a house of 12 when the schools closed) on 3 tins of anything. Especialy when they were really strict locally - you could have 3 tins of veg or 3 tins of beans/spaghetti, not 3 carrots, 3 peas, 3 beans, 3 spaghetti. They still have very few multipacks of anything for some reason.

It was pretty much the first time in my life that the need to have a full kitchen of food (a hangover from an abusive childhood) actually benefitted me really well.

*going to the shops daily WASN'T a good option

I bought, as I always do, 24 bog rolls from Aldi, the week of lockdown. Bought a pack of nine at the end of June.

How much shitting do these people do FFS?!

And pasta is sold out but what the hell are they putting it with?

I don’t know if it is of any comfort but I’m in NZ and when Auckland went into its second lockdown there was panic buying the night of the announcement/the first day and then it all calmed down very quickly as people remembered there may have been shortages but we didn’t actually run out of food staples in the first lockdown.

Supermarkets instituted restrictions on the maximum number of items that could be bought and delivery slots very quickly. It soon became clear there would be no widespread shortages and people stopped panicking. The whole food thing was much more relaxed the second time.

the UK didn't run out of essentials in March

I couldn't buy pasta or flour for months.

FFS, people aren”t filling their garages, just like they weren’t last time.

People are making sure they have an extra pack or two because the chatter is, there’s a risk we go back in to lock down. The reason it is impacting shelves is because supermarkets are on just in time deliveries and they’ll need to catch up.

The thing that makes it worse is people everywhere bleating on about “ohhh! The empty shelves” which only makes more people go out and get some. Keep your hair on, sit tight, and the supermarkets will catch up next week.

I haven’t been in a supermarket for months. If it weren’t for the plethora of people on here and SM whining about empty shelves, I’d have no idea there is a problem. Now I’ve heard there is a problem, if I didn’t already have plenty toilet roll, I’d be adding it to my next delivery “just in case”