Panic buying again!

cupcake1

Just got back from Tesco. The cashier said she’d served someone earlier with two packs of 48 loo rolls, enormous amounts of pasta, frozen food, butter, flour etc. She said she couldn’t speak to them she was so mad at their selfish behaviour. I didn’t buy anything extra than my normal shop. I did stock up on the wine though ??!

Definitely need to re-introduce limits when people do this.

If they want to trawl round all the supermarkets, let them.

Thank you Calendargirl!
Now, need to order some brandy - just for the sauce.

I noticed this morning when I went food shopping that the shelves went stocked out like they usually are. I never thought about people panic buying. Oh dear here we go again. Get your selection boxes, tubs of sweets and mince pies in now lol( I would have them all eaten up before Xmas....)

Heh Summerlove got me wrong there. I for one DONT blame the young for everything and I’m not a grumpy godger either have a young daughter myself.

If you read my post I didn’t imply this at all

Yo you

Oh dear not again.
I’ve booked online orders for the next four weeks but I do that in normal times. Just usual shopping though.

It's ridiculous there is no need to for all this. I went to Sainsburys fairly early this morning about 8.30., there weren't any queues and everything was as normal, shelves had plenty of everything, toilet rolls, pasta, etc. etc. Yet on line, there are pictures of people coming out of stores such as Costco, loaded up to the gunnels with masses of loo rolls etc., why?? and newspapers shouldn't report it, because it creates needless panic.

Guineagirl

Heh Summerlove got me wrong there. I for one DONT blame the young for everything and I’m not a grumpy godger either have a young daughter myself.

I was agreeing with you.

Oh no I hope not I saw one day an old man ask everyone where he could buy toilet rolls he had been walking miles and to get some, I wish the world was kinder

Summerlove

craftyone

people need to be prepared for full house 14 day isolation ie enough food, drinks, snacks and toilet roll. Some people have larger households and need a lot of supplies

This is why slowly prepping if able is preferable, but some simply can’t.

But even prepping gets called panic buying here!

I am a prepper, always have been and have no need to shop as I was already geared up for winter. Its the minimalistic thing with a lot of people, they only store what they need week to week, now suddenly they need to store for the 2 weeks plus the week. It is prudent to do so and is not panic buying

Who starts all this? Papers with photos of empty shelves? We know now there’s everything in supermarkets so why? I do hope shops will ration items straight away.

Yes kate1949 I’ve used them before lockdown and all through and they’ve been great continue to use them and it’s free delivery over £35 which is fab. Recommend them.

DH went to Tesco on Saturday for our click & collect. He said it was mayhem getting into the car park!
Absolutely nuts!
Today I popped into Waitrose and it was absolutely fine, no queues, shortages or panic buying at all.

Theoddbird

There are no problems with booking slots at Tesco or Sainsbury's...I just checked. Hopefully stores will quickly bring in limits on the numbers of each item people can buy

Actually for my Tesco, therecarecnonavailable click and collect slots for three weeks - that's as far ahead you can book.

i think the supermarkets are more prepared this time .and will limit the amount you can have,

I think we should realise that the global food supply has dwindled. The American farmers have had severe droughts and fires. The rice crops in Asia are smaller. Vietnam is not exporting any rice. In the mediterranean countries the harvest was less because the seasonal workers could not migrate due to corona. So preserved goods will also be less. When the going gets tougher, and it will, we will be grateful that we put that extra bag of rice, pasta, tomato paste, baked beans, pickles, salt, oil, vinegar, mixed herbs, spices, sardines and sausages, a packet of soup, flour, sugar, some booze, tobacco, candles, matches or a lighter, soap and shampoo when we shopped the last few times. And of course, always keep a full pack of toilet paper in reserve. I think our days of full supermarket shelves are over. Don't forget baking powder, yeast, stock cubes, curry powder and bisto. Please shop wisely. Adding ONE extra bag or a can of something at a time is not being irresponsible and selfish, rather is is being wise in this unsettled world. And we CAN find a space to store it, like under the couch, in the wardrobe, under the bed.

I think you have made a very wise point arum. We wont see the knock on effect from coronavirus/natural disasters in 2020 for a while. Next year things we take for granted may not be there.

Hello, recently became a gran, it’s fabulous.

* nishowen

We saw Christmas stuff in Lidl yesterday and I felt it was a deliberate ploy to start panic buying. People may think it won't be around by Christmas.*

Not sure, Lidl always have Christmas stuff in in September. Home Bargains here had decorations and Christmas tins in before children had even gone back to School!

On the positive side if we cant get hold of Christmas goodies we may not need the usual January diet?. I wasnt around at the time but despite living in traumatic times people appeared to celebrate with much less. It has the potential not to be what we have been accustomed to with regard to the things we can buy. Is that necessarily a bad thing?

Yes sensible if people only added one extra item to their basket but not when they have a trolley full of toilet rolls. That’s why rationing from supermarkets should come in early.

EllanVannin

Imagine rolling up in a 4x4 buying up all the £1 t.rolls. How selfish and greedy is that when they can clearly buy the expensive ones ? One thing laughs at another really.

Further away from me are large houses turned into flats/bedsits with a lot of unemployed people who rely on the cheapest of everything and you have these sharks coming along. It makes my blood boil as you can see.

The same thing happened in March with people you've never seen before, coming out of town snapping up everything they could to avoid restrictions/queues in supermarkets.

I blame the shopkeepers EV I think they should limit the amounts of any item per customer. It wouldn’t solve stockpiling completely - the vultures would just go from shop to shop. Remember last year when the Chinese were buying up all the baby formula to take/ship home? But at least by limiting sales the locals could get their fair share (also limited) of goods.

I was chatting to the woman on the till in Waitrose on Monday. She was saying it was definitely starting to go in the panic buying direction again.....and thought that the shops should limit what people can buy for some products.

Totally agree with this - should we all write to the stores to ask them to do this?

I've just had my Tesco delivery, and not a single item was missing, which I'm taking as a good sign. ☺

That said, I hadn't ordered any toilet rolls or flour, so who knows if those would have been available.
I won't need to find out for a while, as I gradually put away a stock of these and other essential items _after- the first bout of panic-buying ended (quite recently, in the case of flour, when I read on here that it can go in the freezer), so without it affecting anyone else!
If supplies stay plentiful, I shall continue to replace used items each week (rotating my stock), but if there are shortages in the shops, I can just use my stock and leave what's on the shelves for the less fortunate.

If you were to photograph shoppers leaving Costco in “normal” times, their trolleys would look laden with toilet rolls and giant packages of veg, meat, bread etc as it is a warehouse for bulk buying so easy for journalists to photo and ramp up the story.