The idiocy (and selfishness) of panic buying

Tuearts right boot said:
Called at one of my clients farm this morning...in the barn were more toilet rolls than I've ever seen in a farmers barn. Granted they had just built a new toilet and shower block for the caravaners....Oh how we laughed.
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He'll be flogging them on ebay.

Don't get whats going on with loo rolls? I get the hand sanitiser thing, but bloody loo rolls.
Did the weekly shop this evening and everything except loo rolls is available.
This virus doesn't cause you to go to the loo more than normal, if you are isolated at home for 1 or 2 weeks, and you'd like to prepare just get a couple of packs instead of your usual one etc..
Stories of people buying 10 packs is madness.
 
worsleyweb said:
Twix chocolate bars - i absolutely love twixes
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Have you tried the salted caramel ?


Did my first proper shop today after a 3 week holiday. We'd run things down prior to leaving, so needed a full shop, no extras. Aldi was nuts, lots of empty shelves. Trolleys rammed with paper products and trays of canned goods.
 
Brexit meant we (UK Gov) stocked up on food items throughout 2019 (most warehouses full to capacity). No need to panic buy, but if things dragged out for years then rationing will happen. Worried about toilet roll? Upgrade with a boss bidet (not a scouse item).
 
Brendan110_0 said:
Brexit meant we (UK Gov) stocked up on food items throughout 2019 (most warehouses full to capacity). No need to panic buy, but if things dragged out for years then rationing will happen. Worried about toilet roll? Upgrade with a boss bidet (not a scouse item).
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Or use your shower.

Toilet roll stockpiling is the stupidest thing I’ve ever heard.
 
Mother inlaw isn't the most proactive of people, but she's managed to get herself into a position of having hardly any basic supplies and now too worried to go out for them. Apparently she called in a couple of shops earlier this week and couldn't get loo paper, potatoes, beans etc, so she left it. She's definitely in the high risk category too.

Having to run round there with some stuff, hope the shops restock soon. Hopefully those who did panic buy are now realising that this is a marathon and not a sprint, the peak hasn't yet arrived. Even more so, snapping up all the stocks now just creates problems for those who can't get out and about as easily.

Twenty two mile round trip on a Friday night, once the kids are asleep, even prime now is completely booked up. Crazy.
 
Barcon said:
I've been off work, fattening up for the last few weeks. At least the cat will be able to eat well until the paramedics kick the door in.
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Keeping a close eye on this thread. A big indicator of how things are going will be if folk start to wipe their arses on cats and then eat them (the cats, not the arses)
 
I shopped today to reduce the amount of times I have to go out over the next couple of weeks. Stocks were ok other than liquid soap, toilet paper, pasta and flour. Flour? Folk must be into baking as they self isolate. Folk still not getting it. One young Tesco lad sneezed over the fruit he was packing onto the trays. I tried nicely to explain to him why this was very wrong. Blank stare. I used my trolley as a one metre exclusion zone.
 
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