Panic buying again!

I have to admit I went on line this morning and have a delivery booked for 10 days time. Some delivery fees were £7.

Reading that made me twitchy too Teacheranne. Will never forget the feeling of dread back in March when we were told to shield but could not get a delivery slot before we were registered as vulnerable. It did make me panic, must be honest. More recently I have been booking the next week’s delivery just after this weeks is delivered. This morning I have already booked one for next Wednesday. I did not double up on anything though, even loo rolls or pasta.

It's true alright. People are coming here to small local shops, out of town , and grabbing t.rolls again ! £1 for 4, in their dozens.
They're like a flock of vultures !

As an aside, I do think that the way the media is racking up the tension of “will there, won’t there be further restrictions” is helping the situation at all. That could be reigned in by the powers that be actually deciding on a plan of action instead of pratting about.

Don’t think they will shut us down completely but local lockdown measures will be in force for months to come as said today. We will have to live with this for quite a long time I fear.until we get a vaccine.

I would urge anyone who has electrical items on the blink to replace now. My washer groaned all the way through lockdown and when we went to replace a few weeks ago the brand we wanted was hard to find. We have been trying to replace built in fridge freezer, same problem.

I think the perfect storm of Brexit and Covid rushing down the track, but am not stockpiling.

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.

EllanVannin

It's true alright. People are coming here to small local shops, out of town , and grabbing t.rolls again ! £1 for 4, in their dozens.
They're like a flock of vultures !

Vultures is a good description!

Ah well, I managed last time without a stockpile so I guess I will be fine now. I have made sure that I reordered items as soon as I used something so am not worrying as I did last time. I used to run down my food cupboards and do a massive online shop every couple of months and the panic buying began just as I was about to place an order!

When will people learn that shops will not run out of food ( unless they go mad!) and that Covid 19 does not give you the runs!

I use long life semi-skimmed milk- absolutely zilch. Until I can find some I will have to use fresh semi-skimmed.

There is little choice of loo rolls so I think they are marching out also. I live in a 4x4 area- my car almost looks out of place

My neighbour cheerily informed me she had managed to grab 2 bags of SR flour

This woman doesn't bake

I pointed this out to her and she laughed and said she'd seen everyone crowding round (no social distancing!) the flour section so she felt she had to buy some.

When Melbourne went into lockdown again there was a rush to buy various things. The main supermarkets were very quick to react and placed limits on a lot of items before the situation got out of control. Fortunately the panic did not set in as it had previously and it was not long before people started shopping normally again and the limit on items was removed.

Now 10 weeks into lockdown and I've not seen anyone shopping excessively when I've been shopping.

I was in Tesco this morning and noticed that the pasta shelves were half empty. And cheese even moreso.
I do need SR flour but forgot to look.

I urge everyone to sign up to as many shops that offer delivery as possible.
Also get a milkman. Milk and More were accepting new customers recently.
I see that Morrisons are advertising their food boxes again, which is very ominous.

Oopsminty
I despair! How ridiculous!

We were appalled a few weeks ago to meet neighbours with huge, and I mean huge, piles of cases of toilet rolls and kitchen towels. They were piled high waiting for the lift. We joked about to them but I must say that we really weren't impressed at all. I hope they picked up on that. Selfish sods.

It's appalling, everything has been running smoothly as far as getting hold of groceries and household stuff once the initial problems had levelled out. Saw a woman on line today with what looked like at least 3 bags of 24 toilet rolls. For heaven's sake does anyone s**t that much, there's no need to panic buy.

Our daughter just messaged to ask if we could buy pasta for her as the shelves were empty in her local town?

The more people are urged not to it, the more they will.
No-one wants to be left behind.
Online shopping slots are filling up again.
I noticed a shortage of “ordinary gin” this morning on Sainsbury’s site.
Now that is bad.

Toilet rolls are my big concern and I do stockpile those as I have a medical condition and can go through 1 roll each day , so it's very easy to run out. But's that the only thing.

I do online shopping with Morrisons and have done for years and I have a delivery this Thursday but it took me nearly a week to get that slot. I was not paying £7 for a delivery- not that there were many slots available. I thought we had returned to March.

??‍♀️ What is the matter with people. We managed before, we will again.
If you run out of toilet paper go Middle Eastern and wash yourself with water and a cloth. Don’t know if this is more or less eco friendly.
What do we need flour for? It’s lovely to bake cakes and biscuits but apart from bread do we really NEED it? Will your life be really be over if you can’t bake a Christmas cake?

Yes people have gone mad again. Apparently yesterday there were long queues outside a local Aldi. Today is my normal Sainsbury's shop as Monday is usual quiet but apparently people had been queueing at 7.30 a.m. When I went in at 10.30 it about three times as busy as usual. Thankfully everything I needed was on the shelves, including bread flour which I have still found difficult to find. Yes people were buying big packs of toilet rolls but thankfully I have enough from the last time. Still I hope we don't have a second lockdown.

If anyone is struggling for home deliveries, try Iceland. They are great. Free delivery over £35. I've just looked. They have slots all day every day up to 27th September. They were a godsend to us at the start of the pandemic. They sell most things and are reasonably priced.

I seriously don't understand what starts this - so many people were stuck with hoards of loo rolls after the last session, do they never learn? Our neighbour had a corner of her garage filled with them, just for the two of them. And neither of them is ill. She still has quite a lot, six months later. At least she won't feel the need to panic buy this time, hopefully.

I've always been proud that the majority of my countrymen/women were kind, considerate, friendly people. After seeing the behaviours of so many during the last six months I hope I am never stuck on a desert island with them. I'd probably get eaten.