CFs literally panic buying freezers!

[Stuffandnonsense100]

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?!

Nobody has any need to store copious amounts of food unless you are very rural. Everyone should be trying if they can to have 2 weeks worth of food.

It is panic buying.
Every year I have to go into isolation, an average of 3 months. This year, after this 12-week stretch, I face a 6-month stretch.

Every month someone goes online, and food gets delivered. Someone puts it away. During the month, whoever goes out and gets top-ups.

Coop do delivery for free same-day for top-ups. You will also have some support from the army whilst he is away. They run lots of groups.

And anyone who gets CV will be wasting food. I have no appetite. I have spoken to others who have had it/still got in. The appetite fucks off.

Self-isolation for 12 weeks, you should naturally be consuming less to make up for well, doing not a lot.

Stores are staying open, and these people will find themselves in a few weeks time, skint and a considerable amount of food in the bin. I am keeping a watch on those doing this for when they are in need in a few weeks.

People are going to be trapped in their homes with their significant others for weeks on end. Maybe they’re buying chest freezers to stash the bodies?

Believe penguin

In the case I know of, it is said the garage is now similar to a corner shop. And those freezers and tins do not include their kitchen fridge and freezer and kitchen cupboard stock.

Bring on the lockdown, when one person only can go and shop each day and bring back what they can carry.

Like when I was a child and most food was bought daily from the market or local shop. All seasonal and no waste. You wanted sausage for dinner? Butchers on the next street, veg from the corner shop, pudding? You baked it earlier.

I’m 54, not 94, child of the 70s and 80s. I sound like my nana, but I am craving that arrangement now.

@alloutoffucks and @UnitedRoad

• I feel for

You both! It’s exactly the sort of selfish shit people are doing that I’m Complaining about, which is effecting nice people like Both of you!

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

But if someone had done that a month or so ago it has no impact on the amount of food on the shelves now or then. And that person isn't in the shops now. How is that a problem or greedy or affecting you in any way?

I think I have CV, I agree I am simply not hungry. Eating a bit because I know I need to.
Getting delivery slots is hard, although Sainsburys seems to be cancelling people who book multiple slots so it is getting easier.

@Glowcat

LOL

I don't know why people are defending it, sure there are some genuine sales, but the freezers have obviously been bought to store the food panic buyers has stripped from the shelves. Despair at how selfish some people are.

@squirrelsbizaar

I think people defending it are doing it themselves!

@NaturalBornWoman We are not talking I suspect about preppers buying a tiny amount extra every week for months. Shortages have been apparent for a few weeks. That has been caused by people buying massive quantities.
I know you will all justify to yourself why you had to. Because no one ever wants to see themselves as part of the problem.

I tried to self isolate us last Wednesday. But because I could not get enough food I had to go out nearly every day to buy food until yesterday I suddenly got a supermarket slot for today. I got symptoms of CV today. I have probably spread it around in the shops when I should have been inside, and may even have caught it that way. Totally unnecessary.

People are going to be trapped in their homes with their significant others for weeks on end. Maybe they’re buying chest freezers to stash the bodies?

Composting is more environmentally friendly...

@Stuffandnonsense100 Yeah a lot of people are shits. But there is always a reason why they had to do it. Always.

A lady on my local selling/freebie site was asking yesterday if anyone was gifting a chest freezer she could have as she has bought lots of bread and fresh meat and her fridge freezer is full up. The supermarket shelves is our town are absolutely bare. Needless to say people told her she shouldn't have bought so much and she has a cheek asking us for a free freezer to store excess when the rest of us can't get a thing. She then claimed she was vulnerable. I'm really fed up of it, elderly, vulnerable or not we all need to eat and feed our children and no one should be stockpiling like that. Hoping it's going to sort itself out soon when people run out of storage space or are having to throw food out that's gone off.

We have two large chest freezer always have done family of 6.
Undercounter fridge and a fridge freezer in the kitchen it’s ideal, always have stuff never need to panic buy not that there’s ever a need to. We’re lucky having the space, an extra freezer is practical if you can do it.

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

This.

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

1. A lot of people don't have a standard size freezer

1. If you're skint, a large freezer can be really handy as it helps to save food / money.

People are panic buying freezers. There is just no way around it.

I know you will all justify to yourself why you had to. Because no one ever wants to see themselves as part of the problem.

I don't need to justify anything, I know I'm not part of any problem because I've been ready for this for well over a month and am not scrapping for pasta, tinned tomatoes and loo rolls in the supermarkets currently.

@whatdayistandotehrquestions. Allowing for normal sales of freezers, extra demand will be from the CF's that have selfishly cleared the shelves of food for others. So yes CF's are panic buying them.

I also call bullshit on this "panic buying". It was stated today that people in the UK have bought £1 billion of extra food. That sounds like a lot, but there are 66 million people in the UK. 1 billion divided by 66 million = 15 pounds per head. That to me sounds like a perfectly reasonable amount of extra food to get in if you suddenly have your whole family eating every meal at home and you may have to go into isolation for 2 weeks. I'm surprised it isn't higher. Yes there are a few crazy people buying ridiculous amounts but the vast majority of people are buying a sensible amount of extra food.

I'm glad I bought a new fridge/freezer when I did (no unnecessary extra freezer though - even if we wanted one, it wouldn't fit in our house!). Ours was on its last legs and now in isolation for 12 weeks and have slightly more freezer space than we did so can freeze fresh veg more readily in case it doesn't come on the online grocery orders.

FFS ours has litterally just packed it in....

Having a chest freezer in the garage etc used to be a very normal thing to do. Mil has one. She lives on her own now but it was a god send when she had 4 children to feed when Fil was on the 3 day week.