To think that panic buying just because of a bit of snow is mad?

[wannaBe]

Just went to our local tesco to buy a couple of things, and the shelves looked as if the shop had been burgled. No bread (not a problem as I already have bread), no milk, not much of anything else.

So I assumed that because we have about six inches of snow the deliveries didn't make it. So I asked, only to be told that customers had been coming in and panic buying, that they'd had the usual delivery this morning but people were buying 5/6 loaves of bread at a time and loading up as if there is a food shortage or something.

Fgs it's a bit of snow. And yes it's inconvenient but it's all going to be gone by tomorrow - it's not as if people are going to be snowed in for days.

Madness.

Its fucking stupid. I hope all these idiots that go nuts whenever they see a snow flake have an electric failure and all their food goes mouldy.

I really hate OTT britishness.

I must admit to getting a bit panicy about food levels in the house, but that's because we live in the middle of nowhere.

I'm very rural so always tend to stay stocked up as no shop to walk to. Also my granny (farmer's wife) also kept sensible provisions in just in case they got snowed in.

However totally agree bulk buying bread a bit much and rather selfish - you see my solution is to always keep in flour and yeast so i can make my own [smug emoticon].

Milk more of a concern as still have a toddler who has a bottle morning and night but luckily should have enough in to last till tomorrow when hopefully we'll be able to get out.

Must say am quite bored of the snow now.

My DM did this: bought flour in case they ran out of bread so she could make it, long life milk and regular milk, tinned food ... but then she's just like that. When I was a kid, there was a lot of snow (in the mountains) and my aunt, uncle and cousins got snowed in while vacation. We were due to drive through the mountains (which takes an hour, tops) and she packed: shovels, a camping stove, extra blankets, extra water, dehydrated food, tinned food. I don't know what she was expecting to happen.

If we're snowed in, there's lentils, rice, tinned beans and, erm, that's it. Oh well.

Fortunately, I'm fully stocked with coffee, but not chocolate or wine. Maybe I should get to the shops now

I thought it was because deliveries weren't getting through rather than panic buying?
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well tesco delivered to my next door neighbour this afternoon and we have masses of snow. have placed a sainsburys online order due to be delivered tomorrow and we will see...

local shop is bare, totally bare, but it is a tiny shop for quite a large estate - apparently people were queuing for bread this morning? last time i checked this was not the cold war...?

am due 2 other deliveries today - websites both say deliveries have been dispatched and no-one has rung to say they have been delayed...

This is the one time I'm glad we have soya milk. I usually have a couple of weeks milk in it runs out on the selves quickly so my Co-op buy a case in for me each week

I went to Sainsburys Wednesday lunchtime and it was heaving. Every checkout had enormous queues. I asked the cashier if it had been like it all day and she said it had, because people had heard more snow was on the way (and didn't come). Most were elderly.

I walked half a mile to the coop this morning. 8months pregnant with 2year old in 10 inches of snow to find they have no bread or milk. So went to the next nearest on which is only 1/2 mile from the house but had to walk back past house to get to it! Then had to walk another 2 miles to Tesco which was packed and back home again. Tesco had just put another rack of milk ss out but all the rest was empty! If I had got to Tesco and the milk had been empty I would have gone mad!!!

It never occured to me to panic buy! I did buy an extra 2 pints on Monday as I thought the milkman wouldn't make it on tuesday. (He did though! Oh, sainted Milkman!)
I had nothing in as of Sunday, either. Twas fine. My local shop was busy though. Apparently, if the co-op have nomilk or bread when you goin, you can get it for free next time.

You're kidding right? We have deepish snow - road and pavements are indistinguisable but that's just mad.

I remember about 7 years or so ago there was a petrol strike (anyone else remember?) and for a few days panic buying was a big issue. (helped by media hysteria). People were panicking about panic buying!! Eyeing everyone elses shopping baskets with suspicion to see if they were buying their fair share. Local shopkeeper told me off for buying 2 loaves on my mums instructions - she was panic buying by proxy. TWO loaves, I ask you!! He was happy to take my money though.

my local supermarkets in north hampshire haven't been able to get deliveries in so they are running out of fresh produce. I don't think it's just a problem with a few people panic buying.

We have a concealed steel chamber full of tinned spam and powdered egg in case there's a war, a petrol strike or a blizzard. Panic buying is just crazy.

Maybe these people have read 'The Long Winter' by Laura Ingalls Wilder and the scenes of cattle with faces frozen onto the prairie traumatised them.

cranky - when I say I had nothing in, I mean NOTHING in (apart from Cereal, Bread and Milk lol) , I'd moved house on saturday, emptied the fridge, I'd cleaned my kitchen cupboards out before I moved (and wasn't much left once I'd thrown the out of date stuff out ).

I didn't even have a fridge or freezer in the house I was like old mother Hubbard.......as my cupboards were really were bare LOL