Panic buying again!

I genuinely needed to get loo rolls when I was completing my on-line order this morning. I had deliberately not bought any last week because I did not want to be ‘bulk buying’. I could not believe that most of them were out of stock. My sister, who uses another delivery company, said hers was the same.

oh no..here we go again.
what the chuff is wrong wi folk?

I was in a small Sainsbury at the weekend and Waitrose yesterday and no problems at all. Didn't notice any abnormally empty shelves.

We were doing our normal bi-weekly shop in Waitrose so had a few bags. We may well have looked like we were panic buying.

Wilko also had plenty of loo rolls yesterday, I noticed. Although they may all be gone by the time we want to buy some

What’s this craze with loo rolls? Most people must have enough left over from the March panic buying! At the moment supermarkets seem to have plenty and they are displayed in prominent places.

I am shopping tomorrow so will see if it is 'here we go again' where I live. I sincerely hope not!

It is not panic buying now - and it wasn't in March. It is people who normally shop daily realising that they could be looked down in quarantine for a fortnight - or even longer and making sure they have at least two weeks food in the house.

The problem is that shops and stores have adapted their supply chain to this daily shopping pattern and seem quite incapable of of adapting their almost anorexic 'Just-in-time' delivery systems to this change in shopping habits.

Don't do a Boris and blame the poor s*dding infantry. They are just ordinary people trying to adapt to extraordinary times

I confess I bought an extra lump of cheese today.

We have a freezer stuffed full of home grown fruit and veg - we just don't need a power cut!

M0nica

It is not panic buying now - and it wasn't in March. It is people who normally shop daily realising that they could be looked down in quarantine for a fortnight - or even longer and making sure they have at least two weeks food in the house.

The problem is that shops and stores have adapted their supply chain to this daily shopping pattern and seem quite incapable of of adapting their almost anorexic 'Just-in-time' delivery systems to this change in shopping habits.

Don't do a Boris and blame the poor s*dding infantry. They are just ordinary people trying to adapt to extraordinary times

I confess I bought an extra lump of cheese today.

I'm not totally sure that people are just buying a couple of weeks supplies, or at least not everyone. Since starting this post I've "spoken" to quite a few people who have admitted that they buying a lot more.

For instance, my sister ( family of 4) usually buys 2 x 9 toilet packs every two weeks in her delivery. This week she ordered 6 packs and also went to the shops and bought another 10, so now she has 144 rolls instead of her usual 18!

Dropped into a Lidl this morning (en route to other non food shopping) to buy some of their Danish pastries?. Busy, but no outside queues, no overloaded trollies, shelves fully stocked. Thank goodness some folks are using their noggins!

I went shopping at my local Waitrose early this morning and it was so quiet that they only had one till open.

The only things I couldn't get were goats milk and lambs liver, hardly the items that people hoard.

M0nica

It is not panic buying now - and it wasn't in March. It is people who normally shop daily realising that they could be looked down in quarantine for a fortnight - or even longer and making sure they have at least two weeks food in the house.

The problem is that shops and stores have adapted their supply chain to this daily shopping pattern and seem quite incapable of of adapting their almost anorexic 'Just-in-time' delivery systems to this change in shopping habits.

Don't do a Boris and blame the poor s*dding infantry. They are just ordinary people trying to adapt to extraordinary times

I confess I bought an extra lump of cheese today.

I think this is true of most people!

Really don’t think it helps that supermarkets are putting out public statements, declaring that they are limiting items to prevent panic buying.
Completely agree with the policy but why effectively employ reverse psychology by having it announced on the BBC news? Result, people who hadn’t even considered it think, oh, other people are stocking up, maybe I should do the same?
No need at all. Just put up notices in the shop and tell people to put 7 of their 10 packets of pasta back.