People panicking because of snow

[Cuffi]

When snow is forecasted in the weather, people go mad, panic buy.

If you are planning to stay at home regardless of the weather, you are not going to eat more as it’s snowing! Maybe 2-4 extra cups of tea or coffee? It doesn’t warrant the need to clear the shelves of tinned soups and UHT milk!

Besides where I live the snow would be melted by mid Sunday and temps are going up to 9c.

These people need to look at themselves as they look soft

I never even thought this might be the reason there was no bread out our local store earlier 😱 just assumed they were waiting for a delivery 😬

Where I live it's barely going to get above freezing for the next week. It's sensible to have stuff in stock but something we do every winter.

FFS, I've just had 2 bastard weeks off work and it decides to come now. Fuck you weather and fuck you snow.

We're retired and have moved somewhere with a bit of a hill to get out so we have made sure that we have meal planned for 3 days but we haven't bought extra just got a bit more organised than usual. I'd rather be safe than risking an injury or getting stuck.

I think what is easy to forget is just how vulnerable shops are to a slight fluctuation in demand.
If every 5th shopper grabs 1 extra bottle or loaf just in case then that is enough to clear the shelves, it doesn't mean people have been panic buying trolley fulls.
And don't forget plenty of people would have kids eating lunch at school and their own lunch at work. If you are stuck at home that's an entire other meal to cover.

And I think it also shows more because a lot of people don't keep much of a stock of food, either from space, economy or choice. I live rurally ajd am used to shopping once a fortnight with maybe some fresh veg weekly. Use freezers a lot etc.
If you are someone who pops into the shop to buy dinner everyday on the way home from work then you will need to buy double/,triple just to avoid going out again the next day.
Which again- minor changes to demand is enough to empty shelves.
Same as during covid. Everyone was complaining about 'everyone else' being silly and panic buying, whilst smugly saying that 'all they bought extra was' and listing a 10% increase in purchases.

Asda were selling Christmas cheese packs off. I bought two so can happily live on cheese for a week or more.

We’re in NE Scotland and have a lot of snow. Our usual Asda delivery (booked as standard, nothing to do with the weather) was cancelled yesterday as the van got stuck. It came today with quite a few subs, but yes, I picked up a loaf of rye bread when I was out for lunch earlier - it keeps for ages and I prefer it for toast anyway.

I'm in co Durham, it used to snow fairly regularly here but the last few years haven't been so bad. I hadn't even thought to buy more food in, but I do have a fair amount in the freezer anyway so we'd be fine if we can't get out for a few days

My kids are due back at school on Monday too, I know they are hoping we get a text giving them a snow day 😅

It isn't.
I remember in about 2008 they forecasted heavy snow for the next day. I hadn't realised until I got to the supermarket. The shelves were cleared... of tinned meat. Tough luck if you wanted a nice spam fritter; the entire stock was emptied.

I'll put bets that of those spam tins bought that day, 95% are either still in the cupboard or thrown away unopened.

As others have asked, where is the panic buying OP? Have the Daily Mail been outside Costco again, where you can only buy giant packs of loo rolls, etc, claiming people have panic buying again.

I imagine people might be doing a post Xmas, going back to work on Monday, big shop today?

However, in my Amber Alert area today the shops were empty. I did do a bit of an extra shop for my very elderly Mum today. This is so she doesn't have to go out when it might be a bit icy. And she is also going to stay in for a whilst the flu outbreak is peaking.

However, I don't think an extra loaf constitutes panic buying.

I’m using all the Christmas leftovers… just like every January…might panic buy some leeks and carrots for soup

Tesco was much busier than normal this afternoon. I only just realised it was because we might have a centimetre of snow. I bought reduced cheese with truffle so I'm all good, Plus have loads of christmas booze and chocolate. So I'm sure I'll survive.

I went to three shops today before I could find a single bottle of milk.

We so enjoy calling "them" names, don't we? Buying a couple extra tins and some bread because (a) you'll be having lunch at home on Monday and (b) you don't want to go to the supermarket, is one persons idea of being sensible and independent, but someone else's idea of panic buying.

West of England here. Might just be a sprinkle, might not be, can never tell down here. I did go out for some necessary bits and pieces earlier but still have a lot in from "Twixtmas." If buses are cancelled I can't go anywhere , so thought best to be safe rather than sorry.

I'll be at work on Monday. Battling through 6 foot of snow.

I think it depends where you live - there will probably be some rural villages who are cut off for a few days at least. The problem with panic buying is that it's catching - once a few people start doing it, others follow!

I live directly opposite the sort of corner shop who would still open during a nuclear winter. We’ll be good for space raiders and port scratchings.

I live in a rural village.We're a way off the main road and don't get gritted anymore. There's a pronounced slope that you have to drive up in order to get out of the village. That isn't gritted so if it snows heavily we can't get out.We have a normal sized fridge freezer in the kitchen and a big freezer in the utility. In winter they are always full of food in case it floods or snows and we're stuck. It's part of life. If we use a 'freezer milk' then it's replaced the next time we go to a supermarket. We don't panic buy anything but we don't let anything run out either. When the spring comes we use it all up, clean out the freezer and then stock up again from September.

That's the garage at the end of my road, 24/7

"Oh yes, someone broke in with a machete. Just step over the broken glass, we are open"

I am so glad of my store cupboard. About 3 times a year, I go to the retail park the other side of the city where I live (its a bloody nightmare to get to) where they have Home Bargains, B&M, Iceland Warehouse, and buy store cupboard stuff. This is food, toiletries and cleaning stuff.

Never once had to buy pasta and loo roll for 15 months from Feb 2020.

We live in balmy Surrey.

I always have two litres of milk, two loaves, a dozen eggs, a block of cheddar, oven chips, frozen peas, frozen green beans, pasta, onions, tins of tomatoes, rice, a pack of chicken breasts, a pack of Mince, a pack of salmon fillets, pack of bacon, in the freezer or cupboard.

Enough for a week. I didn't panic buy when lockdown started.

Oh and always a month's supply of toiletries and cleaning stuffs.

I need to do a big shop tomorrow, the supermarkets round here have had empty shelves since Christmas eve, barely any fresh bread or veg and stacks of reduced party food. I love party food but all good things must end 😅so the preppers better leave me some!

Same, I'm sure I could live for years on the many, many varieties of crisps and pop he sells.