CFs literally panic buying freezers!

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Found this out today - refrigeration shops are out of freezers due to people buying them to stock up on extra frozen stuff!

This is bananas! Who is doing this crazy shit?!

Buying enough food for 12 weeks is not sensible, it is the definition of panic buying,

It's the companies profiteering from it that I can't stand (I posted this on another thread) Price increase from £99.99 to £699.99 FFS Disgusting 'Family Run' Company

If you only have a fridge, fine buy a freezer. Otherwise, I agree with you OP.

I am on universal credit at the moment unfortunately and I had to buy a small chest freezer this month as my freezer broke just before Christmas and I couldn't afford to replace it before - but as we're facing the possibility of lockdown I had to take a loan from universal credit to be able to buy one. My neighbour who is 85 is a widower and has also just decided to buy a freezer this month as he is trying to isolate himself and not rely on others.

I don’t have a freezer at all. I don’t have room for one. And I don’t have a garage or shed it could go in. I rather wish I did, though.

As others have said, you dont know their circumstances. I know someone who went to get a freezer last week as they only had a fridge with a small freezer compartment. They are a family with a front line medic, who is now ill.
People need to stop attacking other peoples actions and put their effort into helping others.

We've been trying to cut down on visits to the supermarket & only have a small freezer & did say a another one would be handy atm.

Well tbh it would always have been handy, we just haven't got around to it!

I think it's a really fine line between sensible and selfish.

Everyone realistically needs to be prepared for at least 2 weeks isolation. I have bought extra of a lot of things this week. I am a single parent and if the kids and I get sick, I will be unable/unsafe to go to the shops.
That being said, I didn't go mad with the panic buying. I do not have the space for it nor the money.

My friend has bought a freezer this week. She had a small drawer in a fridge type one previously. And has bought one for the sole purpose of having frozen veg/ pizzas etc.

@SometimeSomeday are you a relatively new forces wife? Your dh's welfare officer should be organising so that dependents know who to contact and how if they need extra support during dh's deployment especially at the moment.

Ask dh.

Also if you are stuck for anything don't hesitate to ask ssafa or hive for help and info.

I looked at buying some heirloom seeds the other day and they had a notice on the website about limiting the number of packets and advising people that seeds cannot be stockpiled.

My uncle was telling me about this. It seems some people are buying extra freezers when they already have one. We’ve got a fairly big upright freezer, wouldn’t have anywhere to put an extra one anyway. DH and I are both vulnerable but it wouldn’t even have occurred to me to do this.

Our fridge and freezer are both quite elderly so I hope neither of them will decide to give up the ghost before things settle down.

What is a small freezer that meant you had to buy an additional one? Do some of you just mean the ordinary size freezer if you have a fridge/freezer?

Please, stop with this panic buying hype.

There's more hysteria about panic buying than actual panic buying.

It's perfectly reasonable to stock your cupboards with enough food to last 2 weeks if you know that you might be about to be stuck in and especially if you have kids.

Or 12 weeks if you're over 70/in a vulnerable group.

Doing one-off large shops should be encouraged, instead of lots of little ones, as then everyone has less exposure to the virus.

What we should be asking is - what can the government do to ensure there is enough food on the shelves so that people can stock up.

We're looking to by a freezer FWIW. Ours is broken and has been for months. (It still chills, but doesn't actually freeze). We're skint so haven't prioritised getting a new one. But now it's more of a priority as we need to not waste the food we have and a freezer would be great to help e.g. with batch cooking. .

I wonder if a lot of the stocking up is being done by people who don't normally have 2 weeks worth of food in the house. I wonder also if those who are better off, don't understand that many people simply don't have that much in their cupboards, so being told you need to stay in for 2 weeks means actually having to go out to buy in enough food at once, not just making do with what's in the cupboards as they're bare.

I live in an affluent area so these are people with huge houses storing them in the garage (the chest freezers I mean).

It’s very obvious when he looks at previous sales what people already have/actually need.

What is a small freezer that meant you had to buy an additional one Lots of people only have very small freezers, as part of their fridge. Is this news to you?

@whatdayisitandotherquestions

Good luck finding a freezer!

I've had a 20 cubic foot upright freezer in my garage since 2003. I shop at a warehouse club and got it to freeze the huge packages of meat, oven crisps, bagels etc. they sell. It's been brilliant in this crisis.

Fridge freezer normal size is adequate.
Of course not news to me, it is what we have. And if we bought an additional freezer, then yes it would be panic buying.

And no one should be buying 12 weeks worth of food. No wonder shelves are bare. And yes I am in the group that has to stay in my house for 12 weeks.

Buying 12 weeks worth of food is panic buying. You are part of the problem.

I don't believe people are panic buying freezers. Lots of people are buying one freezer, but they are all doing at the same time so the freezer shops are running out. It isn't because they are CFs. Seriously who has room to stockpile freezers? Most people are lucky if they can fit one freezer in their house, good luck finding room for multiple unnecessary freezers.

They could also be buying the freezers to fill with excessive amounts of food and have no intention of isolating. Plenty of pics of people using what's happening as an opportunity to take extended holidays, some people are utterly selfish, grabby bastards. Sure the appliance sales person knows the difference between a frazzled key worker and one of the selfish pricks at that only care about there own needs.

This thread just makes me realise that a lot of those panic buying would just seem themselves as being sensible. Buying 2 weeks worth of food is sensible. 3 months of food though is a huge quantity of food to buy and is why some people are struggling to buy any. It is why I was having to shop daily even though I am at very high risk.
But you always think it is other people panic buying. It is not. It is some of you on this thread.

I don't care if you are isolating. 3 months of food is too much to buy.

It is always the way in this world though. The well off put themselves first and to hell with anyone else.

I tried to buy a small freezer for my daughter yesterday. She lives in a shared house, is out of work because she has a zero hour contract in a restaurant, and one of her flat mates has eaten most of her food. Couldn’t buy one as they were out of stock everywhere, but I didn’t make the connection of people needing them to stockpile, just to keep her bit of food safe. Well I hope lots of people are selling them hardly used in a couple of months time, and I’ll buy her one then.

It's clear the OP isn't on about people who genuinely need a new one, or for who this has made it very handy to have one. It's those who don't have any real need to be storing copious amounts of frozen food, and are doing so just because they can. Guessing if they have room for additional freezers they have large houses.

I don't know what you are putting in the freezers but standard size fridge freezer freezer can easily fit food for a family for few weeks. Unless you literally just eat from freezer. Only excuse is to have that 1 shelf freezer thing