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.

I'm a general prepper too now so ok for most stuff for a few weeks but popped out earlier for fresh stuff for lunches this week. I'm North Lancashire and local shops seem ok for stock apart from anti-bac gel predictably. However, in a small Iceland store I was chatting to the manager about the toilet roll panic (they had loads on the shelf) and a woman overheard - she picked up two of the 9-packs and said she had a big basket of them in her bathroom but 'I'm just doing what everyone else is doing'!! She was oblivious to the raised eyebrows. The scariest thing was, she was from the local health/walk-in centre in an HCP uniform so presumably an intelligent woman! She said 'they' had agreed nip out on an early lunch rota so they could stock up.

Doing my online Tesco shop for delivery tomorrow- all pasta apart from very expensive varieties showing as unavailable, as well as almost all hand wash soaps & anti bac sprays.

It’s absolutely stupid, and why loo roll ?
Not just us though, family have friends living in Oz and they spoke to them today, same there with loo roll and apparently most of their loo rolls are imported from China

Luckily I bought a pack of 12 two weeks ago as a top up so we have plenty but neighbours we were out with last night, family of six said they were getting worried and would be hunting the stores today

@Oscarsdaddy it's in case people end up house bound and cant get out due to having the virus apparently

I’ve just been unable to buy ibuprofen for my immune compromised son who was discharged from hospital yesterday after he caught a cold and was hospitalised for 5 days. This selfish panic buying boils my piss quite frankly.

I've bought 2 of things I usually only buy 1 of, just in case can't get it next week when need it.

The closest I've come to panic buying is stocking up on dark chocolate ginger biscuits. Essential in a crisis.

Yeh our town is fine too at the moment. All shelves appear to be full everywhere (at the moment) I won't lie though - I did add extra to my shop a few weeks ago in case this insanity started. Not in bulk but I have 1 extra soap, 1 extra shower gel, 1 extra Toothpaste and some additional cans and pastas in case we had to self isolate. Don't get me wrong, nothing in bulk that involved sweeping my arm along shelves into a trolley but for example instead of buying 2 cans of beans for the week, I bought 4. The hoarding people are doing is ridiculous.

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What you are doing is what most people are doing. If everyone buys 'just one more' the. It's all gone.

I’ve just been unable to buy ibuprofen for my immune compromised son who was discharged from hospital yesterday after he caught a cold and was hospitalised for 5 days. This selfish panic buying boils my piss quite frankly.

Can you go off the beaten track as it were and look for less popular formats of ibuprofen?

Locally, own brand supermarket ibuprofen is sold out everywhere, but full price Nurofen is still left, especially meltlets and so on.

I went to Costco Croydon on Friday night. I knew something was up when I had trouble even getting a trolley. It was out of loads of things - bread, rice, cous couscous, whole chickens, fish, fruit shoots, plain flour, Caloocan, soaps. There were lots of empty meat fridges and certain brands of nappies, teabags, etc all gone. I’d only gone for a normal shop so no idea what else they hadn’t got on shelves. When I spoke to the staff they said it had been crazy since last Monday.

Autocorrect! Caloocan was meant to say Calpol!

Sounds ridicules,
We bulk buy most of our dried food. tins, toilet & cleaning items etc

Have enough for few months, makes me glad we do now.
Why on earth are people panic buying?

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What you are doing is what most people are doing. If everyone buys 'just one more' the. It's all gone.

Remember other people panic buy, you just stock up.

Still loo roll at Sainsbury’s zone 2 London today. Andrex quoted even ;

A couple of other things oos but generally pretty good.

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I "panic bought" more chocolate than usual, so you can blame that one on me 😁. There is no way that I'm risking self isolation for two weeks without a healthy stash of chocolate that DH doesn't know about (he'd scoff the lot).

Missing the point of the whole thread - why can’t I see the poll or voting options ?

Oh and YANBU

I fucking hate people.
Presumably, you only need to ‘stock up’ more than usual if you actually have to self isolate? How many people does this actually apply to?
You would think the silver lining would be that there would be fewer idiots on the streets because they’re all locking themselves away for two weeks but.... noooooo. We still have to put up with their vacant ugly mugs wandering around the pasta isle looking bewildered as they’re not quite sure if fifty tonnes of fusilli is going to last them until April.

There was loads of loo roll in Savers when I went in today looking for Creightons curl cream, of which there was none. Whoever is stockpiling the curl cream please stop, my hair seems to actually like that one and you're leaving me frizzy :(

^Can you go off the beaten track as it were and look for less popular formats of ibuprofen?

Locally, own brand supermarket ibuprofen is sold out everywhere, but full price Nurofen is still left, especially meltlets and so on.^

potholeparadise it’s the kids ibuprofen liquid he needs. We are quite rural but near ‘the’ big Tesco, I’ll travel tomorrow and see if I can find a chemist that’s got some. We have a few doses left but given his immune condition I always make sure we have some to hand so when we start to run out I buy more. And today I couldn’t.

And I bet the plebs panic buying pasta aren’t fucking panic buying passata in order to actually make a sauce to go with it

I don't think guys are panic buying loo roll. We don't eat anything like as much as women do.

From the BBC website (story on Tesco limiting the sale of certain items to prevent empty Shelves)

Shoppers are limited to buying no more than five of each of the rationed goods, including antibacterial gels, wipes and sprays, dry pasta, UHT milk and some tinned vegetables

I can just hear them now... “Sharon... SHARON... what’s fer teeeeeeea?”
“Same as every fucking night Roy, milky fucking pasta with mushy peas”

Oh, meant to say "we don't eat half as much loo roll as women do". Before I get trolled. It's a joke. Well, it was a joke but now I had to explain it, it's not funny. And I know nobody eats loo roll.