This panic buying is ridiculous, had to go to 6 diff shops just to get loo roll

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Nr out of loo roll. Weekly shop today. Aldi, tesco asda x2 and sainsburys had none I mean not even the cheap stuff or fancy patternwd type ones.

Luckily wilko had some.

Couldn't even get pasta, prob have to just get in costco not to bulk panic buy but in hope they have some. I just don't get it there as storage here is crap.

Infant formula, ds can only tolerate one. I norm buy 4 at a time. Struggled to get that even

Now I knew about the handwash etc and always have that anyway.
Tesco cleaning aisle was also bare except the likes of oven cleaner, polish.. Everything antibac or likewise was gone!

I just want to shop normally.

*People in my town obvs don't give a shit - tonnes of everything everywhere I've been this week!!

Same here. You wouldn't have a clue anything was going on.

Lucky because I can't afford to panic buy a ton of everything, I can only budget weekly for groceries/cosmetics. I'm a LP of two DC and have just had to pay for a £90 activity residential for eldest. Loads of people can't afford to buy huge bulks of everything - so unfair and selfish that these people doing it are taking basics away from kids.

I couldn’t get paracetamol in tescos. I have a really bad headache.

It is selfish but many don’t care. You can see on here that people think they should be made an exception etc etc. It’s literally everyone for themselves.

It is absolutely bludy ridiculous and beyond selfish, especially with buying all the hand wash and soap!! I can understand the hand gel a bit more as most people generally wouldn’t carry that round so now they’ve started to but to hoard normal soap and panic buy that? Did folk nit wash their hands before??

I seem a post of FB from a doctor who specialises in infectious diseases and he says it’s not that that’s worrying him, it’s people’s OTT reactions and hoarding. That’s what’s going to be the biggest issue.

Doctors and dentists can’t get hold of face masks, there’s a short supply of hand gel for them so that’s going to have implications. Folk buying all the food when not everyone can afford to shop for more that a week at a time.

What me laugh is all the people with hoards of hand gel/wash thinking they’re safe..... well it just means the disease will spread faster because nit everyone can wash they’d hands because you’ve taken all the soap! So it will spread faster.

Selfish people with they’d I’m alright attitude could t care about the most vulnerable. The poor cancer patents who can’t get hold of Handgel etc..... people should really think about what they’re doing.

I buy 24 pack look rolls every 2 months or so. Realised last night we only had one left. Thankfully, they had some this morning at Asda but how ridiculous that I felt I had to explain to some staring at it and then me that I wasn't frenzy buying, not my style at all, but that I really had run out and only doing what I do every few weeks.

This whole thing is totally ridiculous!

Toilet roll issues here too........God knows why. Do people plan on eating it ?? Or using it as a shroud when we bring out the dead ? 🧐

In my local tesco, no loo roll, kitchen roll, paracetemol, soap, pasta or rice. I had a small stockpile before the Brexit withdrawal agreement was signed (built up gradually over several months so no panic buying) and I'm annoyed I used it now as at least I had a spare bag of pasta then!

I have an amazon subscription for Andrex; last pack (45 rolls) delivered last week cost £17.50; today it’s £23.33. This is why I need to stockpile food and loo roll (as I did for Brexit). I can’t afford a hike in my usual groceries, so I buy kidney beans when they’re 4 for £1 in Tesco as I can’t risk having to pay 80p a tin as they are elsewhere. I also don’t want to be in the supermarkets with 3 children when any shit hits the fan, so I prepare in advance.

I have been sick for a few weeks now (not Coronavirus🤣).

I was stuck inside for a week, and really all I needed was my usual weekly shop, plus paracetamol.

I always have plenty of toilet roll, pasta and cat food. It’s the fresh stuff that’s a problem if you are stuck inside.

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I buy from them too. The coloured ones brighten up the bathroom and the black and white match my downstairs loo.

Went to my small local co op this morning. Fully stocked with the tins and toilet roll and kitchen roll missing from my supermarket monthly delivery yesterday. (Lancs) Plenty of meds and cleaning stuff also.

Yet yesterday the big Morrisons was cleared out, my elderly neighbours tell me.
It's just barm pottery and selfish hoarding eejits causing all of this.

These people who were stock piling over Brexit???? Just why? There was no need.

Now we know there was no need to prep for Brexit, but until no deal was off the table it could’ve gone either way, and we could’ve seen price hikes and long queues.

Good planning usually means the thing you’re worried about doesn’t happen, which makes it seem like you were stupid to plan for it in the first place. But usually it’s the planning that prevents the shit hitting the proverbial. I spent huge amounts of worry and time making sure my young children can cross a road safely. If they never have an accident I won’t view it as wasted time (if that makes sense).

I did my shopping on Tuesday as normal, most of the food from a local farm shop and the rest from Tesco and everything seemed fine then, however people in my local town were yesterday posting photos of empty shelves in local supermarkets. I already have plenty of soap, paracetamol and loo roll etc anyway, aren't these normal every day things most people usually have at home?!

from a local farm shop

Thats reminds me, must go and get eggs

It isn't happening where I live, but we live in a place where deliveries depend on the weather, so anyone sensible has a stock of essential items in case the ferry doesn't get in for a couple of weeks.

These people who were stock piling over Brexit???? Just why? There was no need.
Brexit hasn't properly happened yet.

For the people far, far up thread saying it's a media frenzy..... It really isn't. Here is my local asda. I don't have photo's of the whole shop obviously but there is no big roll/kitchen roll/cleaning products (bonus points if it says antibac on it)/ frozen food and food that will freeze.

It's the same in every supermarket in the area (Kent)

I'm not sure what I'm most bemused by, the size of people's freezers or the idiocy of it!

Why are people buying loo roll anyway? If things really got that bad you could always use magazines and newspaper like in the old days!

Everything normal here - what area are you in OP? Is it remote places that are running out of everything?

Up north here (Cumbria) and there's plenty of everything - clearly we just aren't bothered 😂

I'm bucking the trend, meh to bog roll, I'm starting to stock pile the Daily Mail.

There was plenty of Sanex handwash, all flavours, in my local Tesco - no signs up limiting consumption but everyone was taking max 2. We're lovely round these parts.

Genuine question: if someone in a household self isolates, are the other members of the household supposed to as well?

I saw a newspaper report of patients' visitors stealing sanitiser from the end of beds FFS!

Stupidity and selfishness rolled into one.

If not, they could do the shopping.

Our local Tesco told me someone had taken all the hand wash in the customer toilets! She had only just topped up the containers and some selfish twat had clearly brought in their own and filled it up.