The idiocy (and selfishness) of panic buying

Went to the local Sainsbury's after my partner finished work...one yellow coloured chicken, 9.18 was all that was left on the meats section...why's it so dear, and such an 'orrible colour? totally beyond me...managed to get a salad thing, no real mayo left except that light blue labelled type...I left that for some other lucky sod. It doesn't leave a good feeling to see it all for real, not a thing on the shelves...
What are people suppose to do who work full time? Just hope they get it all sorted out and people start behaving themselves, surely to god they must have ran of space or money? Hopefully both!
 
Village post office/general store looked like something in a Belorussian famine BEFORE Coronavirus struck. That was on a good day. Service to match. Then it closed 2 weeks ago.

Good riddance.
 
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Hope my neighbours can take advantage of sainsburys first hour of trading for the elderly today. Can see they've been pottering about for half an hour now after failing to get much from Tesco on Tuesday.

My at risk parents are isolating though and can't get a delivery spot, so looks like I'll be braving the scrum this weekend for them. The wife got a prime now slot for the mother in law last week and got her in a shop, only to find out yesterday that her fridge has broken weeks ago and she'd not told a soul.

Next door even offered to get us some soy milk as they know my eldest has a milk intolerance, kind daft berks.

Beyond that, hope the supply chain and new measures on restrictions have an effect soon. Despite being told there are millions of loo tolls in warehouses across the UK I've not seen a pack on the shelves for almost two weeks now.
 
Renneronline said:
Went to the local Sainsbury's after my partner finished work...one yellow coloured chicken, 9.18 was all that was left on the meats section...why's it so dear, and such an 'orrible colour?
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That's what colour chickens are when they grow naturally and eat a diet of corn. The pasty white ones (that you normally see hundreds of) are that colour because they've been force grown in a mass production facility. It's not how a chicken should look.

It's also why those "yellow" ones are dearer, it costs far more to rear them.

You need to try one sometime, they actually taste of something!
 
Mugatu said:
That's what colour chickens are when they grow naturally and eat a diet of corn. The pasty white ones (that you normally see hundreds of) are that colour because they've been force grown in a mass production facility. It's not how a chicken should look.

It's also why those "yellow" ones are dearer, it costs far more to rear them.

You need to try one sometime, they actually taste of something!
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I'm unusual in that I don't mind putting my ignorance out there, or, anywhere, because sometimes I get back little gems (or real nuggets) of knowledgeable information back, just like this. Obviously have had to put up with the downside of this habit too, but that's only broadened my shoulders and made me less bothered over what other people may think. Thanks for explaining the 'why', my ignorance is now less because of it. And I will.
 
Cant get about easily and potentially vulnerable so tried to order Tesco home delivery. No slots for three weeks. As l had already done the order l chose the next best option of click and collect on 30 March.
Now I find that many of the items l ordered have gone out of stock presumably to people, panic buyers or otherwise who have come along since. I dont know what will be left on my order until delivery so 13 days wasted in which i could have tried limited other options. Now all other home delivery options are booked for whole of March.
Well done Tesco you useless wankers. If the virus dont get me starvation will.
 
My wife has crohn's, can't get a toilet roll anywhere. Went to local newsagents and asked for old papers. Hope some people are happy.
 
Fred_Quimby said:
My wife has crohn's, can't get a toilet roll anywhere. Went to local newsagents and asked for old papers. Hope some people are happy.
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That takes me back.......cut sheets of newspaper stuck on a nail in the outside freezing bog.

Gorton extra quilted circa 1967.
 
Mike Cledford said:
Cant get about easily and potentially vulnerable so tried to order Tesco home delivery. No slots for three weeks. As l had already done the order l chose the next best option of click and collect on 30 March.
Now I find that many of the items l ordered have gone out of stock presumably to people, panic buyers or otherwise who have come along since. I dont know what will be left on my order until delivery so 13 days wasted in which i could have tried limited other options. Now all other home delivery options are booked for whole of March.
Well done Tesco you useless wankers. If the virus dont get me starvation will.
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I have just last night emailed my council to ask if they are putting together a volunteer scheme and if I could be involved in that in a logistical capacity (It's what I do) I have as yet heard nothing back but hopefully they'll respond in the 3 day period stated on their website.

The way some people have been steam-rolled and left with next to nothing is disgraceful and we as a society need to start thinking about the isolated vulnerable not just the vulnerable within our own families.
 
Since we came back in mid-January I’ve been doing the shopping early doors to avoid other people. Usually around 7am but has gotten earlier each morning. Theres’s usually me, the staff and one or two other blokes in there. Today there was a queue outside the store to get in. As soon as the doors opened the locusts descended on the pasta and toilet rolls, what the Rucker they’re eating with the pasta god alone knows.

Walking round there was an old woman with two 24 packs of toilet role in her trolley, one or two other items. “You do know you’ve got enough there for almost a year don’t you?”
Carried on to see a different woman with three, yes three which is now the limit, 10kg bags of pasta. Within 5 minutes all the pasta had gone.

I wanted to get some lager, the premium lager is always on offer at four bottles for £6. So i checked with a supervisor could I get 4 and she said no, three was the limit. So instead of four Tiger beers I got three Tiger beers and a Cobra, Estrella, unfortunately, was sold out. What’s ridiculous is I could have got three crates of Amstel, and three crates of *name other drink they sell* as well as an additional three crates, but I couldn’t have four bottles of Tiger?

Next up was wine, three bottles she said. What three bottles of Malbec?, three of Sauvignon?, three of Shiraz etc etc, “no! Three bottles of red and three of white”. Fucking Philistine.
We nearly came to blows over my six bananas.....
All Smirnoff and Russian vodka gone, going to have to treat myself to some Belvedere or Grey Goose if vodka goes, no one panic buying them.

Best result was the pack of toilet rolls I could get my daughter as she had only one roll left and a pack of flour for my other daughter so her husband could make some pies.
 
I am fucking ashamed of this country.

When this is all done, I'm off.

I went to Sainsbury's in Sale this morning to get a birthday cake and pizza for my little girl's ninth birthday this weekend (had to cancel her party)

Everything, and I mean everything, was basically stripped from the shelves (it was 9am)

Fresh, non perishable, it was pretty much gone.

There was an elderly lady about 80-odd and she was having a panic attack right in the middle aisle. Nothing in her trolley and was tearing up when I went to see if she was okay?

She had wanted long-life milk and some toilet roll because she had none.

I told her to stay put and I would try and find a staff member to see if they had any in the stores being kept behind on the QT.

Nothing.

When I got back to the aisle, someone had taken the pizza out of my trolley.

The elderly woman was really apologetic.

She had nothing to apologise for.

Shouldn't even be going out.

Shameful.
 
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