Are people stockpiling in your area?

[holliem91]

They are where I am!

Went to pick up a few things from Sainsbury's earlier and they had no bread, no toilet roll and the rice and pasta isle was pretty much empty.

Why are people doing this?!

It's creates a massive knock on effect as then others who weren't originally panic buying then start to think they need too.

I have an 8 month old baby and now I'm thinking should I stock up on her milk & nappies etc? We always keep a couple of tubs in the house as spare anyway but I remember throughout the last lockdown I really struggled to get her some milk! But then if I do that, I'm as bad as them!

It just really stresses me out and I wish people wouldn't do it

[NRatched]

I needed to go and get some tampons as my food delivery missed them off. In town it was honestly like Christmas. People were queuing outside all the supermarkets and shops and banks, all the cafes were heaving!

Sounds like our high street..since lockdown was announced its been heaving. Worse than xmas actually, as xmas is not usually that bad

Our shop last might that was delivered (with like, 20 things that we ordered not there) we ordered tampons for DSD. Asda apparently think that an extra pack of toilet rolls are a good substitute for tampons?!

Substitutions really baffle me at times. I get its from..the same aisle and is sort of loosely related. But, I don't fancy telling DSD of my very skint caught short days in my youth, where I would basically fashion a tampon out of loo roll!

[NRatched]

@formulation

No not a wind up-have a v large family.
We previously got 1 big shop a week and a smaller top up one.
With limits on certain products and item limits on a whole shop we now have to get more deliveries unfortunately, I can see why the shops have these limits and it probably works for most people but not those with large families

Honestly, this is probably a much better way of doing things than what I do. Usually one big shop per fortnight, one smaller shop but topping up meats and veg mainly.., but then pretty much daily trips to local shop, which probably costs 3x as much long term as another big shop would

Just wondering now how much better off we would be..I think working this out roughly in my head, it must cost at least a hundred a week on 'bits' from the local..damn

[StealthPolarBear]

If rates of covid are rising then the chances of us getting it or being exposed to it increase.
It's all very well saying the shops will be open but that's no good if you're not allowed out.
And we're being told to go out less, so surely when we do shop we buy more to make it last longer

[PanamaPattie]

No panic buying here in the Southwest. Sainsbury's had the biggest mountain of loo rolls as you walk in the door. No shortages of anything. People were just buying their usual shopping - plenty of delivery and click and collect slots.

[cologne4711]

I was in my local Waitrose yesterday. Well stocked except for washing up liquid (?) and loo roll. There were two packs of Christmas loo roll left and nothing else.

[1990s]

Still nothing out of the ordinary here, went in a different big Sainsburys on the way home, some people, no queue to get in, nothing missing.

SW London.

[itsgettingcoldoutside]

Yup. No immodium left anywhere and toilet rolls.
Lots of people must have the shits.

[HasaDigaEebowai]

I had an hour and a half to kill both yesterday and today whilst waiting for ds1. Both times I went into Lidl. No crowds, no queues, no empty shelves, plenty of space in the car park. This is in the middle of a busy city.

[aToadOnTheWhole]

Nothing appearing to have been besieged by locusts here. Food shops anyway. This is GM, so extra restrictions for a long time, don't know if that had anything to do with it not being carnage in Aldi.

I imagine a lot of folks with kids are buying November/December birthday presents and Christmas gifts stuff though.

[formulation]

But I have to say even with 3 deliveries that’s not including any element of ‘stockpiling’ I always make sure we have for example couple packs spare Nappies anyway and few cupboard bits but we are literally only getting the usual amount

[formulation]

No not a wind up-have a v large family.
We previously got 1 big shop a week and a smaller top up one.
With limits on certain products and item limits on a whole shop we now have to get more deliveries unfortunately, I can see why the shops have these limits and it probably works for most people but not those with large families

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@frozendaisy

3 deliveries a week has to be a wind-up surely?

Ah maybe, I took it as serious because..mumsnet!

[PattyPan]

Tesco yesterday were randomly
out of pitta bread but seemed to have everything else although I didn’t go down the loo roll aisle.

Do people seriously wait until they are on their last roll before buying more? What if you unexpectedly get the runs?

Also... if you think pasta is gloopy then you are definitely cooking it wrong!

[forgetthehousework]

Asda yesterday, no problem at all. The only thing that looked a bit low was my favourite brand of bread, but more came out as I was standing there (and there were plenty of other brands to choose from).

[frozendaisy]

Oh and fireworks this lunchtime, although to be fair I added to that chaos as presume they will be non-essential by tomorrow. To be fair they are non-essential today, but hey, after a mere hour or so managed to purchase a small box!

[Thirtyrock39]

Just to say when I hear about panic buying it makes me panic - the media have totally fuelled this. I was dreading my weekly shop today but it was totally FINE!! The only aisle a bit low was loo roll but there was still a lot there just a few gaps on the shelves for that. No issue at all with food or anything else and it was calm and quiet . I feel so much better now I've been and see it's not like March

[frozendaisy]

3 deliveries a week has to be a wind-up surely?

[BiddyPop]

No, I slowly rebuilt my supplies of longer life items over the summer months and have online shopping slots booked up to Christmas week (they released November last week, and December yesterday, so I spent an hour booking a weekly trolley load of fresh items and the odd few bits of cleaning and stores items, - and my very important turkey breast for Thanksgiving later this month!!).

But the shelves, when I was in Lidl for milk on Monday at least, were all still full, and there was only 1 substitution in this week's shopping this morning (1 brand of non-alcoholic beer for another) and nothing unavailable.

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@formulation

I have to book 3 deliveries a week because of limits on items it’s ridiculous

Bloody hell, I struggle even getting one spot a fortnight. Maybe because some are booking 3 a week!

I genuinely wish I had the space for 3 deliveries a week tbh. Or enough people to eat all that food

[unmarkedbythat]

What I really enjoy about this is people being annoyed at others for selfishly stockpiling, whereas they are just sensibly making sure they have a few extra bits in. It was like all the people in the earlier lockdown complaining at the number of people out and about whilst they were out and about themselves. My parents have so many fucking home delivery slots booked across a range of supermarkets they are constantly losing track of what they have ordered and when its due and they complain bitterly about people taking up delivery slots...

[frozendaisy]

Butter seems to be the item of choice to stockpile locally here!

And eggs but just large eggs.

I blame GBBO myself.

[LordLancington]

I'm in the Midlands and Aldi seemed normal yesterday.

[Northernsoulgirl45]

Went back into my online shop to amend and 5 items were out of stock.
Loo rolls
Soap
Baby wipes
Tinned tomatoes
Pasta
All had alternatives but loo rolls were only 4 packs
Dread to think what else will be out of stock by Friday and what ridiculous substitutions will occur.