The couple in front of me at the checkout felt, for some reason, the need to apologise to me for the amount of stuff they were buying. Apparently both of their daughters who normally live and work elsewhere have been told to work from home. They’ve interpreted that as working from their parents home.
My daughter was doing her usual weekly shop yesterday. Her and her two boys eat different breakfast cereals. They tend to run low about the same time so yesterday she bought one box for each of them. When the checkout operator was putting them through the woman behind my daughter started tutting and muttering about “stockpiling”.