The idiocy (and selfishness) of panic buying

How quickly things have changed. I was guilty of starting this thread under a different title just 9 days ago, when the bog roll stampede was little more than an amusing peccadillo. We could poke fun at panic buyers then. Not any more!

I’m not a natural pessimist. Most essential stuff seems to be out there but not on the shelves. Wankers can’t bulk-buy for ever. (Can they?) Supermarkets are recruiting thousands and (belatedly) being more vigilant on restrictions. We also have the army in reserve if supply chains to the supermarkets are clogged. It may take a while longer but surely things will start to settle down. People may to be a little more thoughtful and ingenious with meal planning in the meantime.
 
Saw the girl from the butcher's yesterday and to quote her ". 4 weeks ago we saw the best in humanity when we were all flooding, this week it's the worse of it".
She's not wrong.
 
Things are settling down. It's just people going to the same shops expecting something different to yesterday.
I can get virtually everything from our corner shop.
Yet the local supermarkets are bare.
Their system of stock supply is the problem. But they are finally getting to grips with things.
Let's see if in a week things are better.
 
Yay, managed to get bog roll from B and M. Stop using the newspaper kids !!
 
sir baconface said:
How quickly things have changed. I was guilty of starting this thread under a different title just 9 days ago, when the bog roll stampede was little more than an amusing peccadillo. We could poke fun at panic buyers then. Not any more!

I’m not a natural pessimist. Most essential stuff seems to be out there but not on the shelves. Wankers can’t bulk-buy for ever. (Can they?) Supermarkets are recruiting thousands and (belatedly) being more vigilant on restrictions. We also have the army in reserve if supply chains to the supermarkets are clogged. It may take a while longer but surely things will start to settle down. People may to be a little more thoughtful and ingenious with meal planning in the meantime.
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another problem with these panic buyers,even though shops now have brought in these restrictions on goods,ie,only 2 or 4 being allowed to buy of 1 item
they will be that shelfish they will just go to their cars,unload,and walk back in again and do it all over again.
 
blue44 said:
another problem with these panic buyers,even though shops now have brought in these restrictions on goods,ie,only 2 or 4 being allowed to buy of 1 item
they will be that shelfish they will just go to their cars,unload,and walk back in again and do it all over again.
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I was in Tesco yesterday and that’s exactly what the checkout operator was saying was happening.
 
BlueHammer85 said:
Starting to blame the shops more than the greedy fuckers.
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As an ex Tesco manager i absolutely agree and spoke to a still Tesco manager this morning about it.

Take off all multi buy offers and introduce strict buying rules on certain items. Lady with 10 packs of toilet roll gets told at the till to put 9 of them back and so on and so on........

It really is that simple and for supermarket boards to be on the news pleading for panic buying to stop annoys me as its them that are allowing it in the first place.
 
blueinsa said:
As an ex Tesco manager i absolutely agree and spoke to a still Tesco manager this morning about it.

Take off all multi buy offers and introduce strict buying rules on certain items. Lady with 10 packs of toilet roll gets told at the till to put 9 of them back and so on and so on........

It really is that simple and for supermarket boards to be on the news pleading for panic buying to stop annoys me as its them that are allowing it in the first place.
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It's a laugh mate, they are advertising it so more people do it. It gets the expensive loo-rolls and cleaning products out of the door at the same rate as the low margin stuff. The only thing left yesterday round my Morrisons was some wierd and expensive looking kitchen roll - no price on the shelf, people buying it anyway..... They were emptying a pallet onto the shelves - six pack of handy tissues, £3.50. Five varieties of smallish boxes of tissues at £2 each. Profiteering. Loo roll is large by volume and low in price, so it's the last thing they want to fill up their lorries with. And the quicker they sell out, the more people panic and hoard stuff they don't need or willl throw away. Nothing makes people panic like running out of loo roll. So the actual item we're all after is last on their priority list.
 
Fucking morons. Ive been flat out in work for a week on the frontline dealing with this and so havent had time to go any bits in. Im low on grub and without milk, bread and other basics. There is none to be had now in the supermarket, tried Asda and Lidl near me. Fuck all there. Lunacy
 
Uncle Wally One Ball said:
Fucking morons. Ive been flat out in work for a week on the frontline dealing with this and so havent had time to go any bits in. Im low on grub and without milk, bread and other basics. There is none to be had now in the supermarket, tried Asda and Lidl near me. Fuck all there. Lunacy
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These people are cunts. If I survive this I am going to dedicate the rest of my life searching out the cunts and will shame and terrorise them. Like I said yesterday they are on the same level as ISIS and nonces.
 
Seen a lady earlier in morrisons with a trolley with about 20 large cartons of milk and 20 loaves of bread. She was being escorted around the store with a member of staff.Overheard her say to an angry shopper it was for a local nursing home, fair play to the store on sorting them out.I presume it was items missed off from a home delivery.I guess we shouldn't judge what we see straight away.
 
purplenose said:
These people are cunts. If I survive this I am going to dedicate the rest of my life searching out the cunts and will shame and terrorise them. Like I said yesterday they are on the same level as ISIS and nonces.
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That,s two off us,
Finish nightshift popped into sainsbury's for a cool drink,and a right tw.t pushed a older couple out off the way to get some pasta
Full fking face off with the cu.t,,& his bitch wife
I was so close to giving both a good fking slap, Then
when the prick threw the package on the floor which opened.i was going back to see how the oaps were ok,made I fking remark,right you **** I wait outside for you,fking arse went, bitch went to get security
Guy turns up asked what the problem was oaps told him what happened plus what I seen,
Checked there overloaded trolley & took some stuff off them,gave the oaps 2 pack off pasta,
I waited 1/2hr outside the shitheads didn't come out
But so glad the oaps got sorted by some staff who took there list and shopped for them..
 
kippax4ever said:
That,s two off us,
Finish nightshift popped into sainsbury's for a cool drink,and a right tw.t pushed a older couple out off the way to get some pasta
Full fking face off with the cu.t,,& his bitch wife
I was so close to giving both a good fking slap, Then
when the prick threw the package on the floor which opened.i was going back to see how the oaps were ok,made I fking remark,right you **** I wait outside for you,fking arse went, bitch went to get security
Guy turns up asked what the problem was oaps told him what happened plus what I seen,
Checked there overloaded trolley & took some stuff off them,gave the oaps 2 pack off pasta,
I waited 1/2hr outside the shitheads didn't come out
But so glad the oaps got sorted by some staff who took there list and shopped for them..
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Good on you mate...by the way I want to go shopping with you no c**t will bother me
 
The policy of single shoppers only and letting people in on a one in one out basis seems to work a treat here in Spain. Might take 20 mins to get in but once in aisles are clear and shelves fully stocked.
If it can work ok here I don’t see why it couldn’t in U.K.
 
I live in a small town in County Durham. Took the dogs out 6-45am this morning. Walked past Aldi & Lidl. Queue's outside both and car parks full. Neither opens til 8am. One of the girls who works at Aldi said that it has been the same for about 9 days. She also said they are seeing the same faces over & over again. Not sure if this is a small town thing. Don't mention the pubs round here either as some of them still open this afternoon. Absolute idiots
 
kippax4ever said:
That,s two off us,
Finish nightshift popped into sainsbury's for a cool drink,and a right tw.t pushed a older couple out off the way to get some pasta
Full fking face off with the cu.t,,& his bitch wife
I was so close to giving both a good fking slap, Then
when the prick threw the package on the floor which opened.i was going back to see how the oaps were ok,made I fking remark,right you **** I wait outside for you,fking arse went, bitch went to get security
Guy turns up asked what the problem was oaps told him what happened plus what I seen,
Checked there overloaded trolley & took some stuff off them,gave the oaps 2 pack off pasta,
I waited 1/2hr outside the shitheads didn't come out
But so glad the oaps got sorted by some staff who took there list and shopped for them..
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Well done pal not the sort of shit you need down the supermarket but these are different times and the vulnerable need looking after, I for one applaud you
 
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