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.

Thank you @LadyEloise. As that was the only loo roll I could find I just bought that. I normally order it as part of my Tesco online shop, I'm not really am M&S shopper! Basically, any loo roll was better than none!

Sainsbury's was pretty empty this afternoon. The things on my usual list that they were out of were loo roll, pasta, my usual pasta sauce, smoked haddock, butternut squash, corgette, bread flour, Apple juice.
I managed to get the loo roll in my local corner shop, who say they have stocked up and have plenty. They are listening to customers to see what else they need to stock up on, and have ordered in bread flour and yeast for next week.

I felt very sorry for lady in front of me in Aldi today who had clearly done a very normal weekly shop and was told she was only allowed 4 bananas as the cashier took 2 off of her very average sized bunch!
I think he maybe took the new rule of only 4 of one item per customer a bit too literally!

4 of one item is all well and good if you are a single young individual living alone. If you are shopping for your large family and neighbour in self-isolation it could mean not enough for a meal.

Tesco has limits now for online shopping. I eat and cook with a lot of tinned marrow fat peas but you can only order a maximum of two tins in an order.

Haven't RTFT yet, but my online shopping never arrived with zero notification. After being on hold for an hour I was told it was never coming due to shortages of vehicles. Not only that, half of my order was rejected due to no stock.

Right now I feel so angry about people who are panic buying. It's so selfish. I've got 3 very young children here who subsequently weren't fed last night because of what happened.

I've also seen people buying all the baby formula and nappies. I've got a 3 month old too and I'm single, so it's not easy for me to send someone out on a hunt for stuff 😭

How does online ordering work at the moment in most stores given they take the stuff off store shelves?

@annielennoxstuckinmyhead can you get referred to a food bank if your situation is that bad to have no food at all? Have they not had breakfast either?

I've had a message from Waitrose saying to update my order before midday as they are closing early today. I've just added my mums order but the app was glitchy due to high traffic.

Cashier in local Sainsbury's told me a bloke had been verbally abusive to her this morning because she told him he could only have five packets of pasta and his response was "well they are all different so it isn't 5 packets". What an utter knob. The manager was called.

And in my basket was a shopping list that had "panic buying" as the header! (Burgers nuns and beer was the rest).

You're panic buying NUNS?? I've heard it all now!

@Bercows I went out first thing this morning to shops to get what I could. Felt like such a shit parent last night.

This situation will also hit food banks card too. Everyone's clearing the shelves of tinned food.

I also called out the cashier in Iceland this morning for allowing the customer to have more than one set of toilet roll. She did it through separate transactions. I said to her why did you just do that? It defeats the object of the one item per person policy and her face dropped.

The world is going mad.

Food banks hard*

Still no pasta in any of the big shops near me and now no eggs. However I called in to the local posh village stores and got pasta -they had loads. They were out of hens eggs but did have some Quail eggs going for an exorbitant price. A very middle class panic buy here it seems..

Pasta, loo rolls, tinned tomato’s, antibacterial spray, cat litter, flour all at my local supermarket. Out of peanut butter and ordinary tea though. I managed a normal shop with just a couple of substitutions from my usual.

Not seen sanitizing hand gel for weeks though.

Loads of loo roll in my local Tesco, stacks of it, literally, so I got 2 packs of 32 rolls, as it was the cheapest way for my preferred brand. A woman tutted at me and then commented that it wasn't really necessary to have all that loo roll. I pointed out that we had two loos, so I had a pack for each. I should have asked if she meant to be so rude, but dh wouldn't let me chase her round the store

beggars belief- everyone seemingly has a reason why they should be an exception but having 2 loos is priceless.

64 rolls - of course that isn't panic buying- panic buying is just what others are doing- not you. You clearly deserve more- why not buy 124 next week.

I have 4 loos and so I NEED 128 loo rolls

This Aldi thing about only letting people buy 4 of any one item, hasn't really been thought through very well. For example they wouldn't let you buy 5 packs of six eggs (=30) but would let you buy 4 packs of 15 (=60)?!
You could get 4 x extra large packs of chicken fillets but not 5 x small packs??! Surely they should exercise some leeway and common sense!

I got loo roll on ebay.
Cheap too.

When will all the panic buyers have filled their cupboards / sheds / garages? By the end of the week? Is that when normality will return to supermarkets?

Does anyone else wonder where all the extra people come from? I work in a supermarket and every day for at least a week the queues at checkout have been humongous. Literally back up the aisles, worse than Christmas.
As it's never that busy even at weekends where do the extra people come from?

I've got 3 toilets and 20 loo rolls. That I bought months ago. I have a ds who likes to try and flush whole rolls down the loo when my attention is elsewhere 😩 we have what we need to see us through for a while. I pee for England too thanks to my dodgy bladder.

No loo roll, eggs, milk or soap in Tesco, Waitrose and Sainsbury’s (Kent). Morrison’s had the lot. I am surprised that people are stockpiling eggs. What’s the point of that.