aibu to think Xmas food shopping is panic buying?

[DragonMama3]

In Asda. people buying food like the world was ending! WHy?

Shops reopen in 12 hours?

I don’t know about anyone else, but I don’t want to have to do any shopping, not just food, for a week after Christmas.
So what with lovely leftovers, buying plenty means I don’t have to.
And none of it will be wasted.

Theres only so much cheese you can eat in one/two days.

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I need to go tomorrow but that's our normal weekly shopping day. Won't be buying too much. I actually like nipping to the shops after Christmas as gets me out of the house for a breather.

I'm in eyes up 12 cheeses in fridge

😂yes, this! You put it better than I could

Plus, I don’t really want to go to the supermarket at all between 23rd and 28th, but in that time I am hosting at least 3 different sets of family and friends for different types of meals on different days.

How many people do they have visiting over Christmas? How big is the party they're having?

Tesco today was heaving, there was a massive queue to get in the car park! Sainsbury's were busy too but you could move about a bit more...

I going then

Makes perfect sense to me that people would buy more. Nowt to do with shops being shut for a day, and all to do with having lots more people to cater for. While my family are staying, I want to do things with them, not go grocery shopping.

Yes down here they were queuing to get in Tesco and nowhere to park in Morrisons. Hoping it's better tomorrow, I only need basics as am elsewhere Christmas day and Boxing Day and have already bought goodies.

Veg, cream, fresh things have to be bought last minute. It’s often for a large crowd on Christmas Day and/or boxing day. There’s more food than usual on those days, so it seems like a lot. I don’t know that it’s necessarily panic buying.

Most people eat the same things at Christmas and shops do run out plus xmas eve shopping is miserable. Why would you not get it all bought in advance?

I think most people have pre-prepared but, like most people fresh stuff needs to be gotten as late as possible, given that so much of the prepared foods expire before Christmas Day!

Off out at 6am tomorrow to get salad bits and more fucking wine!

I know the shops are only closed for one day but I don’t have time to go shopping again. I have to visit family, and bake multiple cakes and pies and loads of other time consuming shit, and clean the whole house (and keep it clean because people will pop in).

Also I need specific ingredients and I can’t afford to risk them being out of stock, I need to get them now so I know I’ve got them. Imagine if I went to the shop on Boxing Day and couldn’t get any custard for the trifle, or they didn’t have the sort of bacon I like for sandwiches! Everything needs to be safely in my fridge now.

Of course the supermarkets were busy today. There’s a set date for Christmas and people are looking to shop for that. It’s always busy just before Christmas.

It will be even busier tomorrow. And busy on Sunday too. There will be queues for the car park. The tills will all be queued out and people with have multiple trolleys. It’s always like that.

I was in M&S today getting a turkey and pigs in blankets. The self service queue was enormous. But I knew it would be before I went in. It’s Friday 22nd December.

Annoyingly I forgot to put bin bags and salt in my Amazon delivery (came this morning) and I have none of either. So I will need to do some shopping tomorrow. I think I’ll go to the corner shop because I know the supermarkets will be bedlam. And no one needs me wandering around in there picking up bin bags.

I do a big shop for Christmas not because the shop is shut for a day but because I'm catering for 18 people over 2 days and it's not possible to do a long time in advance because of the dates on fresh food. I don't think people are panic buying

Also, people drink over Xmas. Which means they can’t drive to the supermarket. It’s no good having two glasses of sherry then realising you’ve run out of butter.

Other than turkey and associated trimmings,its a normal shop for us. Thsnk God I dont have room to.host anyone

Yes down here they were queuing to get in Tesco and nowhere to park in Morrisons. Hoping it's better tomorrow, I only need basics as am elsewhere Christmas day and Boxing Day and have already bought goodies.

If you go early you should be ok?

Wow, that's a ton of food and drink required!

Not necessarily, if you're feeding your whole family three meals a day, every day plus hosting an extra family or two on Christmas day.

Yep thankfully it's only once a year

I think tomorrow will be the worst, we went today, didn't have to buy too much as I had a Tesco delivery on Wednesday, it was the latest I could get but of course no good for a lot of the fresh stuff. We went into M&S and then Waitrose, both busy but I'm glad I went today. Don't intend to get any food shopping now until Tesco comes next Thursday.

Yes but it's a bit late to buy your turkey and ham...!!

Most of the year my weekly shop consists of healthy food plus some microwave popcorn and a few packets of biscuits for the teenagers. Today I attempted to buy enough Pringles, Doritos and chocolate to last them a week. I probably didn't succeed (they are bottomless pits with hollow legs) but in my mind I'm enjoying the idea that I won't be in a supermarket for a week.