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

[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

[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.

[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.

[itsgettingcoldoutside]

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

[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.

[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.

[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.

[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

[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

[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!