People who panic buy because snow

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It’s usually bread, tinned soups and tinned veg that I see being bought.

Don’t people not have a small store cupboard? Plus people can surely live without bread?

I live alone and got enough food in my cupboards for 3 weeks, four at a push

Why is it panic buying to buy something you will need in advance?

All the people with stocks of food have panic bought by that measure, just a lot further in advance

It's not panic buying it's just shopping.
If snow is forecast (I'm in a rural area so challenging to get to town in snow) then I make sure I do my food shop earlier before the snow hits. I've not bought anything extra just a couple of days earlier than I would have done.

Shops may see a rise in sales before snow or a storm etc & then a dip when it slows but the sales balance out.

It's good planning & a sensible thing to do. Better than having an accident on treacherous roads because you didn't plan & then had no choice but to drive into town.

As we saw at the start of Covid, it doesn’t take much before people start panic buying. 🤷‍♀️

But, I would think most people have a cupboard with non perishable goods in, so I can’t see the point of stockpiling stuff that will go off. 🙄

Storm season starting here so we've made sure we have enough food and that the gas bottles are full. It's predicted to be a bad fire summer too so it makes sense to be adequately prepared.

I buy for 7 here, the youngest is 17years, my weekly shop looks like panic buying every week 😂😂 stockpiling for that amount I'd need another room, the Tesco men absolutely love commenting on my weekly shop and are always commenting on the amount of food I buy and how I clear out the shop and how their backs are broken lifting my shopping off the van .

Well done you....

You have enough food in your house for 3-4 weeks???? Well I don't. We are a family of four and we get through a lot of food (two hungry teenage boys), so I need to shop every 2-3 days and we get through a lot of fresh food inc. meat, eggs, milk, bread, bananas, apples, salad, cheese. I don't tend to buy a lot of tinned food, but if I lived somewhere remote I probably would if bad weather was forecast and I feared we might be snowed in.

It can be frozen.

They do their best with whatever margin they can manage (which might not be much).

It's one of those "every little helps" situations. Even an extra day or two's food from a small number of tins/packets/the freezer can reduce panicked pressure on supply chains

Nope got a large young family but why panic buy never understand that

I’m assuming that their store cupboards don’t magically replenish themselves so they top it up whilst shopping.

A handful of tinned cans might last a single person a month and a family only a week.

But you live alone - surely you can see that people who DONT live alone need more? My kids eats so much as hes growing and in a family of 4, milk and bread dont go a long way...

A few weeks ago I sorted out my cupboards. Found pasta dated 2021 and still is fine.

I remember about 15 years ago we had very heavy snow and we really couldn't drive out of our village safely for days, it was before we had kids so we were fine but the corner shop slowly ran out of everything and it was a little concerning!
I would hate to be in that position with children to feed or a baby needing nappies or formula

I grew up in a rural area and we only did a big shop once a month so would always buy like 10 cartons of milk at a time and bulk buy other things too.

I've got not much bread in today, I'm conscious that we are due some snow which means that I don't want to wait until the last min to replace in case we get cut off (I live on a dicey road where it's a possibility), but also I'd normally just pick some up whenever but other people doing the same thing means I don't trust there will be bread when I go, so I'll make sure I buy it earlier than normal

It was similar for me in covid.

Usually I wait until I absolutely have to go food shopping to go. Usually I don't have more than a meal or so left. I don't buy pasta until the bag has only one more meal in it etc. I don't have much storage space so just replace as I go

When covid hit I began to make sure I always had a few meals in stock, so went shopping earlier and replaced things more often

Other people doing this meant the shop was also out of things frequently so I'd have to buy even earlier because there was no certainty that if I popped in to a shop on my way home for bread that there would be any....

I'm fully aware that people acting like me is what causes the shortages but equally I don't want to be irresponsible!

Not everyone putting 3 loaves of bread and 3 4pts of milk are panic buying. They may be buying for elderly relatives or neighbors. I will be heading to the shops later, I will be buying 3 loaves of bread and 3 4pts of milk - 1 of each for us, 1 for elderly GPIL, one for my elderly grandparents. Both sets of elderly grandparents are in their late 80s and early 90s and are very unsteady on their feet at the best of times. Last thing we need is a fall because they have walked to the shop for bread and milk in the snow. The paths round here are ice and slush and very slippery.

It isn't panic buying to buy bread or milk a couple of days earlier because you know it might be difficult to get to the shops. We usually do a top up shop (bread, milk, fruit etc) on a Tuesday night because it fits with one of DC's activities. If we know we won't get there Tuesday we will bring it forward or push it back a day. This is no different.

My Mum had spares of everything, I do the same. I have an extra freezer in the garage with meat and bread. I also have a cupboard with bulk buys (thanks Costco) and things like cleaning products, loo rolls, tins, pasta, rice, sugar, cereal and UHT milk. During the first lockdown, I didn't need to go shopping for 3 weeks. I'm basically a bulk buyer/ mini prepper, it's how I grew up and makes me relax.

However, I know that not everyone has the money/ space/ organised mind to do this. My SIL goes shopping most days and their cupboards and fridge are basically bare. That would stress me out.

Yes....I have food stocked in the cupboards...It's usually tinned or dried food and bread is easily replaceable..so is fresh milk for long life milk .

This is why they do it

https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1978104/uk-households-urged-buy-bread

It's human nature. Where I grew up snow was measured in meters not cm or mm and there were blizzards, hurricanes and ice storms.

Guess what happened each time heavy snow was forecast? A news segment in the emptied out bottled water aisle of the supermarket hyping up panic buying and crowds of shoppers. People are just silly.

I bought bread and milk………… because I needed bread and milk

Does anyone know if I need a permit to keep a cow in my backyard?

Across the street have one, but she's of the two footed kind.

I'd run out of milk and bread....think we got a black hole here that swallows bread and milk....anyway I was shocked how quiet the supermarket was...this was tesco...got my bread and milk and also some apples, cheese and baked beans ..not sure that's stocking up...more like replacing items we used