The idiocy (and selfishness) of panic buying

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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Of course they are. They’ve got their huge supplies and that’s all the selfish cunts care about. I hope their toilets get blocked and their houses flood with piss and shit.
 
squirtyflower said:
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.
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He could always make his own pasta as well :-) between Waitrose and my corner shop I’ve had no problems getting what I need so far.
 
tolmie's hairdoo said:
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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dont think it’s happening in every country ?

agree. It’s beyond awful.

wish there could be bank controls on max spend.

army lads to ensure fair distribution on vital stocks.
 
tolmie's hairdoo said:
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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This. In a nutshell. These people, and it is more than a few, are a f..king disgrace. Selfish barstewards. They are taking anything they can get their hands on.
 
andyhinch said:
He could always make his own pasta as well :-) between Waitrose and my corner shop I’ve had no problems getting what I need so far.
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We’ve had no issues here until this weekend, when all the knobheads started the rush. Pushing past people, rude and obnoxious for some fucking rice and pasta.
Half the cunts don’t even know what to do with the stuff, they’ll start eating it straight from the packet.

I looked into making my own after someone mentioned it on here but i couldn’t really be arsed.
A local Chinese supermarket was well stocked on Friday and had a pallet full of 20kg bags of Tilda rice.
The only thing is I tried some and its much drier and harder than you get in the takeaway
 
squirtyflower said:
I looked into making my own after someone mentioned it on here but i couldn’t really be arsed.
A local Chinese supermarket was well stocked on Friday and had a pallet full of 20kg bags of Tilda rice.
The only thing is I tried some and its much drier and harder than you get in the takeaway
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You need to cook it mate #protip
 
andyhinch said:
He could always make his own pasta as well :-) between Waitrose and my corner shop I’ve had no problems getting what I need so far.
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I made pasta yesterday.

Ate dinner about an hour later than I expected to and it was a bit rustic looking tagliatelle but it was fun and tasted better than store bought anyway.

Only problem was it used a lot of eggs (6) and I'm not sure how easy it will be to get more of those.
 
Fred_Quimby said:
This. In a nutshell. These people, and it is more than a few, are a f..king disgrace. Selfish barstewards. They are taking anything they can get their hands on.
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And theres literally no need to.

These people arent worried about 2 weeks self isolating it's all doomsday bullshit.
 
domalino said:
I made pasta yesterday.

Ate dinner about an hour later than I expected to and it was a bit rustic looking tagliatelle but it was fun and tasted better than store bought anyway.

Only problem was it used a lot of eggs (6) and I'm not sure how easy it will be to get more of those.
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Anything like milk and eggs I’m just using the corner shop, they’re limiting the amount you can buy and haven’t run out of anything yet.
 
andyhinch said:
Anything like milk and eggs I’m just using the corner shop, they’re limiting the amount you can buy and haven’t run out of anything yet.
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Finding anything you can't freeze or store for long relatively easy. So milk, yogurt, cheese, fresh fruit and veg are ok.
 
BlueHammer85 said:
dont think it’s happening in every country ?

agree. It’s beyond awful.

wish there could be bank controls on max spend.

army lads to ensure fair distribution on vital stocks.
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Doesn't seem to be in North Italy but then they have applied stricter rules for shopping. Queuing 2 meters apart and only so many in a shop at any one time so overall seems more organised and means shelves are not stripped which in turn gives people confidence that when they do shop they can get what they want.

Conte the PM is also getting a lot of love with a 71% approval rating...from The Times

‘This is remarkable given that Conte was an unknown technocrat plucked out of university by two populist parties to become PM of an unstable coalition. The apparent lack of panic buying in N Italy also presumably a mark of confidence in the Italian government’
 
BobKowalski said:
Doesn't seem to be in North Italy but then they have applied stricter rules for shopping. Queuing 2 meters apart and only so many in a shop at any one time so overall seems more organised and means shelves are not stripped which in turn gives people confidence that when they do shop they can get what they want.

Conte the PM is also getting a lot of love with a 71% approval rating...from The Times

‘This is remarkable given that Conte was an unknown technocrat plucked out of university by two populist parties to become PM of an unstable coalition. The apparent lack of panic buying in N Italy also presumably a mark of confidence in the Italian government’
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Crazy considering the numbers are rocketing out of control
 
tolmie's hairdoo said:
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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I shouldn't laugh, but the pizza thing made me giggle, reminded me of when I got a load of cut price bargains from Tesco once, left my trolley, and some fucker raided it, but not only that, they put a shit load of lube underneath my other stuff lmao.
 
BlueHammer85 said:
Crazy considering the numbers are rocketing out of control
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It’s crisis management and organisation. Italians think he has a grip on the overall situation. Same appears to be the case in France. The medical situation is separate from the making sure everyone else is fine and supplies are getting to the shops and into people’s homes.

 
Rosler's Mullet said:
I shouldn't laugh, but the pizza thing made me giggle, reminded me of when I got a load of cut price bargains from Tesco once, left my trolley, and some fucker raided it, but not only that, they put a shit load of lube underneath my other stuff lmao.
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Yeah, yeah. Is that what you told the missus when you got home?
 
sir baconface said:
Yeah, yeah. Is that what you told the missus when you got home?
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Luckily, I clocked them lurking underneath whilst I queued for the till, I'd have certainly clocked them on the belt or when it came to pay as the groceries would have come to about £3,42, with that lot it'd have come to about £30-40, I shudder to think what would have happened had I missed it though, proper day walking nutjob.
 
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