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.

No loo roll or pasta when I went to Costco on Thursday

My town has one Tesco. No hand wash, no hand gel, no toilet roll and now no kitchen roll 😂 guess that's the toilet roll alternative for people. Very strange behaviour.

Just done my online shop with Asda for Monday, no toilet roll & hardly anything that had antibacterial in the name! The cleaning aisle was practically empty. Online shopping wtf!

I bought all my loo roll 3 years ago, when it was cheaper - smug face.

Hence the difference between panickers and preppers.
I bought extras months ago. Slowly. Bit by bit. As my budget and circumstances allowed.
Because I'm a general prepper..

Was the same in my local Waitrose. No loo roll, no pain killers, serious dent in cleaning products, soap, beans, pasta, rice and tuna.

It's fucking ridiculous and selfish.

On the plus side, now that everyone's bought their own body weight in tuna and loo roll the shops will be restocked in a few days and there will be plenty again.

The shops can readily restock.

At the moment. So chill out.

We are set to move back in to our house in a couple of weeks time, after three months of living with my parents whilst we renovate.

I'm going to look like the biggest panic buyer when I do our first moving back home shop. We have no food in the house and 1 toilet roll.

What we do have is a cupboard of cleaning supplies. Mrs Hinch/Maria Kondo craze last year promoted me to reorder the cleaning supplies and now it is well stocked and organized. So I've got nothing to eat but plenty of stuff to clean with.

I'm not sure why people are panic buying loo roll.

Shitting yourself isn't a symptom of Corona virus is it 😄

There are going to be a lot of blocked toilets if people are using kitchen roll!

Summercat why did you and your DH visit a dozen supermarkets in a week?

@HeresMe - being stuck in the house for two weeks on enforced self isolation without bog roll. I imagine that's why. Not hard to work out, really.

I went to Iceland yesterday so I didn't have to do it today and they had loads of loo roll. Looks like they had got a delivery in. My excuse for buying two packets is after seeing all the posts on my local FB page that the supermarkets didn't have any I didn't want to chance not being able to get some today from Tesco. If eldest DD home we can go through a roll a day! She's actually away for the weekend so it should last a couple of days more Iceland had a stock of everything, although not a large stock. The pound shop next door had no paracetamol but loads of toilet rolls.

I'm doing my weekly shop today and youngest DD wants to come to see if the shelves are stripped as bare as we are led to believe. A friend went to Asda last night and most shelves were empty.

I don't need a huge amount today, just a normal weekly shop but with everybody going into panic mode I'm wondering if I should buy items I wouldn't normally at this point in the month just because I see them? This is how it happens, other people go daft which makes the rest of us wary so we sort of become one of them without meaning to. Vicious circles then ensue.

What I don't understand with these people buying shedloads of stuff is: if you are put into isolation people/delivery drivers can still bring stuff and leave it on the doorstep.

Everything is totally normal where I am. If I didn't look online I wouldn't be aware that anything was going on at all!

I saw a woman with an entire CAR LOAD of loo roll. Her car was packed to the roof with it.

It is just media hype, people are so fucking stupid.

being stuck in the house for two weeks on enforced self isolation without bog roll. I imagine that's why. Not hard to work out, really.

Why do people need a couple of months worth then, are people pooing a lot more. It was a joke post if you didn't notice the smilie so calm down.

@tapdancingmam - I guess people want to make sure they have adequate stocks of food which they like/prefer rather than rely on someone else's choices. A lot of us have allergies or illnesses which means many things are off the list. My freezers are nearly always full anyway, it would be fresh veg and fruit I would be lacking.

I think someone mentioned Milk and More up thread - they are more expensive but deliver a range of fresh goods if required, including bread, veg and cheese.

Dunno. I'm not a panicker. I'm a general prepper. I don't need to.

Well, this is why I prep, to be honest.

Two 24 packs of loo roll bought separately at random, entirely non urgent times in the last year.

Kept in the shed, had to crack into one when we came back late from holiday and forgot that it had run out before.

Down to my last roll of the normal fortnightly 9 pack. It should last til Weds when my food delivery arrives, when I'll get my usual 9 pack. If that isn't available, I'll have my stores to dip into.

THIS is why I have no idea why prepping is seen as extreme. It allows you to NOT get involved with panic buying yet still be perfectly well supplied.

Went in to my local Tesco (north sxotland) yesterday, only thing out of stock was hand gel, the toilet aisle looked as it normally does.

People are batshit. In town yesterday there was no paracetamol or soap in wilko, boots, superdrug or savers. They seem to have the stock the next day but it runs out again by mid morning. Our local tesco had plenty of loo roll thursday but the shelves were bare yesterday evening. At least three people at the checkout buying more than one 9 pack. Insane.

Perhaps if the government hadn't spent tbe last couple of years telling people to ignore experts and trust their ill informed feelings.

No loo roll pasta, rice, soap, medicines and tinned stuff in any of the local shops. Costco is also sold out. Diarrhoea is not even a symptom. What the fuck are people doing with so many rolls? Use it as food?