The idiocy (and selfishness) of panic buying

gavvo said:
It will quickly dawn on @VOOMER the way its dawned on the rest of us over different periods of time. We're all in this together though, its going to be a stinker.

But whilst we are on about churches, there is a national day of prayer on Sunday I'm not that bothered whether you are a believer or not but look it up and even if you don't believe join in for just a few minutes if you can. Our country needs all the help it can get
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i won’t waste a second on it.
 
aguerooooo said:
i am disabled i have been ordering online for my two parents for 6 months they are both 83 and to frail to leave the house i have gone on all food deliveries and thay are booked solid SO WHAT DO I DO? Sainsburys have said they will give those vunerable on Monday first option but the deliveries are booked up i dont care about myself but how do i sort my ma and pa out?
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where are you bud?
Perhaps some of us could help
 
aguerooooo said:
i am disabled i have been ordering online for my two parents for 6 months they are both 83 and to frail to leave the house i have gone on all food deliveries and thay are booked solid SO WHAT DO I DO? Sainsburys have said they will give those vunerable on Monday first option but the deliveries are booked up i dont care about myself but how do i sort my ma and pa out?
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Not much immediate help but book the online delivers as many as they will let you a week apart,tesco will let you book multiple orders in advance,at least you know you will have those coming even if you have to wait for them

Can you get out to the local shop? People seem to be going to the supermarkets more,explain the situation and ask if they can put aside some basics for you,call your local supermarkets and explain,you might find a sympathetic ear and you have nothing to lose by asking

Can you get out to get them take away stuff? all kinds of pubs and cafes are doing take away food now so it doesnt have to be junk,ask them if have milk and bread you can have as well,,call around they are desperate to stay afloat,they wil sell you anything

Call around first so you are not having to trapes around,you will someone that will help you out i'm sure

Good luck
 
Little shop near me has loads milk,tea bags crisps etc I know it's not much but it might help top of Monica grove levenshulme.
 
aguerooooo said:
i am disabled i have been ordering online for my two parents for 6 months they are both 83 and to frail to leave the house i have gone on all food deliveries and thay are booked solid SO WHAT DO I DO? Sainsburys have said they will give those vunerable on Monday first option but the deliveries are booked up i dont care about myself but how do i sort my ma and pa out?
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I really hope someone can help this blue and his parent's out, i'm in bristol otherwise i would.But this forum is close knit you will get some help:)
 
karen7 said:
Not much immediate help but book the online delivers as many as they will let you a week apart,tesco will let you book multiple orders in advance,at least you know you will have those coming even if you have to wait for them

Can you get out to the local shop? People seem to be going to the supermarkets more,explain the situation and ask if they can put aside some basics for you,call your local supermarkets and explain,you might find a sympathetic ear and you have nothing to lose by asking

Can you get out to get them take away stuff? all kinds of pubs and cafes are doing take away food now so it doesnt have to be junk,ask them if have milk and bread you can have as well,,call around they are desperate to stay afloat,they wil sell you anything

Call around first so you are not having to trapes around,you will someone that will help you out i'm sure

Good luck
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As far as i can see all online services are booked up with no delivery slots available full stop sadly. I tried Tesco and Waitrose yesterday, both fully booked up so i just keep my shopping basket and go back periodically to see if they have any new ones. Problem is even if you do get a slot it is going to be so far advanced time wise it makes it useless for the next few weeks.

 
aguerooooo said:
i am disabled i have been ordering online for my two parents for 6 months they are both 83 and to frail to leave the house i have gone on all food deliveries and thay are booked solid SO WHAT DO I DO? Sainsburys have said they will give those vunerable on Monday first option but the deliveries are booked up i dont care about myself but how do i sort my ma and pa out?
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Sorry to hear about your difficulties my friend it's getting tougher isn't it? The only way I have found that you can get anywhere near enough to a reasonable normal shop is to go to a big supermarket outlet early doors when it first opens get what you can, then follow that up with a trip to the high street namely BM's, butchers, bakers etc and an amble round the surplus stores poundshops Heron foods and the like.

For you that might be a very challenging if not impossible thing to do and it makes me angry and sad at the same time. I sincerely hope you and your mum and dad get through this surreal start of the lockdown and you finally get a chance to shop for what you need. This morning I am shopping for a relative who is not able to do this (Work related he's a delivery driver and working ridiculous hours) and hope I can get the bits that he needs, I am cooking him and his son a meal tonight before I lock my doors completely for the duration my only respite being the corner shop for some essentials.
 
KS55 said:
I shall be walking the streets, ringing a bell and shouting "Unclean, unclean" as I am over 70 with underlying health probs. Yes, we old fogies are the new lepers.
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Lepers never change their spots;).
Incidentally there is an interesting novel written by Victoria Hislop about a real.life leper colony in Greece. Might help passing the time for those in isolation.
 
aguerooooo said:
i am disabled i have been ordering online for my two parents for 6 months they are both 83 and to frail to leave the house i have gone on all food deliveries and thay are booked solid SO WHAT DO I DO? Sainsburys have said they will give those vunerable on Monday first option but the deliveries are booked up i dont care about myself but how do i sort my ma and pa out?
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Tescos keep taking stuff off my order so much that l wonder what l will get having waited for 13 days for Collect which is not what I really want. Basically they are selling the stuff l have ordered and paid for to JCLs. No wonder I cannot sleep.
 
Tesco at 7am, no bread, meat, tinned food, milk, pet food, rice or pasta. Even the beer aisle was decimated. I give up, I'm going home, this is really getting me down.
 
gavvo said:
It will quickly dawn on @VOOMER the way its dawned on the rest of us over different periods of time. We're all in this together though, its going to be a stinker.

But whilst we are on about churches, there is a national day of prayer on Sunday I'm not that bothered whether you are a believer or not but look it up and even if you don't believe join in for just a few minutes if you can. Our country needs all the help it can get
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Why would you join in to do something you don't believe in, that won't help in the slightest anyway?
 
I just wonder how long it will be before we hear off the 1st Tesco, Asda, Sainsbury's or Morrison's home delivery van being robbed or stolen....could end up like the cash in transit vans being escorted/watched by the police.....
 
You could tattoo a simple message on people's foreheads - THERE'S ENOUGH STUFF FOR EVERYBODY - but they'd still load up, just in case, er, er, just in case cows stopped needing milking and hens stopped laying eggs! To all the panic-buyers you are canutes, not so pure but oh so fuckin simple!
 
Just been to the diy store and got a bag of play sand for the kids. Had the idea to nip into the supermarket next door to get some non dairy milk for my daughter who has dairy intolerances.

I got a pack, but my God I am so upset with humanity and people in general right now. Couples mass buying meat, kilo packs of chicken legs, three each and a trolley each. People cutting other people off from shelves whilst they stack up. People sticking to the three of one item rule but then getting in three of ten different flavours of soup. My wife says it's possibly people buying for the vulnerable. Maybe, buy they certainly weren't buying carrots or cabbage to go with that chicken stew.

Decided it's enough. Not going out again until it's over or my parents or kids need something urgently. Putting the eldest on school dinners once her place next week is confirmed back at school and we'll just get through the next month and let the panic buyers sit on ten tonnes of frozen loaves. Although I want the best for my family, fresh fruit and veg etc, the depression and sheer embarrassment of seeing that in the supermarkets is too much.

To redress the balance I'm also going to check what excess stuff I may have and knock on to the older neighbours to offer it. May only be a bar of soap, a handful pull of up pants that our youngest doesn't need anymore and a few Christmas candles, but can't stand the selfishness. If anyone here needs stuff like that just pm me, near Manchester Airport way. I hope to hear there are others doing similar, otherwise we may as well just accept this mass reset of life.
 
VOOMER said:
Officially it was a request not an order and it is not a request with any kind of penalty. So once the various pubs, clubs, restaurants and gyms have found out how difficult it is to access the government help, they will be open again. It will last a max of 7 days.
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In 7 days we will enter a full lockdown, in my opinion.

Last Friday fuck all had been done but they announced they’d have daily updates and restrictions to come in the following week. By this Friday they’d part-closed schools/cancelled exams/closed public businesses...

by next Friday we will be in full lockdown mode.
 
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