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No loo roll and very limited pasta in my local Tesco. Pasta now rationed to two packs per customer. Guy in the checkout said that the eggs were sold out too. No understand. Unless eating 36 hard boiled eggs is a method of using less bog roll.
Was delighted to find a couple of bottles of hand wash under the sink, so we're good for 6 months. However, I needed a bottle of Flash, but the cleaning products aisle had also been stripped.
There are some shysters flogging tp and hand gel on eby now for ludicrous prices. I guess there's no real come-back if I bid £10000 for a few items then forget to pay? If enough people do the same it might stop these arseholes trying to make a quick buck at the expense of those in genuine need.
Yeah – a food flask full of pasta (we use macaroni as it is smaller and fits nicely in the flask compared to other pasta) tossed in a little bit of butter to stop it from congealing and a separate little box with either grated cheese or tuna
Sounds like a good idea for our family winter bike rides
Just back from regular weekly shop at Aldi. Pasta and toilet roll all gone. Quite a change from last week. Oatcakes too, weirdly enough.
Got most of my other shopping and bought a roll of big bin bags. So many scenarios where refuse pickups stop. Might need 2 per corpse.
I’m back.
I have butter, lettuce and some bananas. Didn’t notice any toilet roll V8 but their was bags of pasta on offer.
Ventured out to my local supermarket yesterday.
There was plenty of bog roll and bread but none of your "traditional" veg. No potatoes, no onion, no carrots etc.
Whatever people are planning in Glasgow seems to involve soup.
I ordered a load of stuff like rice/beans/canned stuff online with Tesco. Next slot is end of next week and you couldn't order more than 2x for essential stuff like pasta/rice/etc. Most of their pasta was sold out.
When you run out of bog roll, what shape dried pasta are you going to reach for first from your pasta mountain?
A nest of tagliatelli?
half cooked fusili?
Or just scrape yourself clean with bits of lasagna sheet?
Whatever people are planning in Glasgow seems to involve soup.
Opening a brothel?
Mrs_oab went to pcworld/Currys as one of the lads keyboards had stopped working.
Apparently people have been buying extra freezers to stockpile further...
one of the lads keyboards had stopped working.
They're taking "self - isolation" way too seriously.
They’re taking “self – isolation” way too seriously.
Teens.
Teens.
Also explains the national bogroll shortage
Dad's just been to Tesco - says it is not carnage but anything like loo roll, wet wipes, pasta, tomoates, canned beans are non-existent. Clerk said people were in there at 6am this morning.
Just picked up a click & collect order from Tesco. Everything is fine apart from the one can of baked beans we ordered - out of stock and no substitute available. The girl who brought out my order rolled her eyes as did I. May explain why all the bog roll is needed though.
Apparently people have been buying extra freezers to stockpile further…
suddenly needing a generator makes sense......
best pick up a second jerry can of fuel 😀
Apparently people have been buying extra freezers to stockpile further…
I hope they're also stockpiling condoms so that they don't produce any more morons.
I hope they’re also stockpiling condoms so that they don’t produce any more morons.
I accept there is some absurd stuff going on at the moment, but we have stocked up on a little bit extra of some key things like toilet paper, potatoes, tinned tomatoes, pasta, milk and beer (probably about £60 worth of extras over what we would normally get). However I think some people are genuinely worried we might be in for the long haul and I can't blame them because very little seems to be happening to dispel any concerns. And with what is now going on in Italy, Spain and (most likely) France (ie going into virtual lockdowns) I can see why some people are going to extremes. You also have to bear in mind that some of these people may not have had large freezers in the first place (we have two so plenty of space, but they are usually packed with batch-cooked meals).
Personally I think the people in the 'moron' category are quite quite low in numbers, we just have many more erring on the side of extra caution.
Priority shopping hours for the elderly?
They're usually waiting outside when the supermarket opens at 8am anyway.
I accept there is some absurd stuff going on at the moment, but we have stocked up on a little bit extra of some key things like toilet paper, potatoes, tinned tomatoes, pasta, milk and beer
Yup totally absurd and unnecessary.
Panic buying is stupid until enough people are doing it, then it becomes prudent.
Just back from ASDA. Told that they're stopping 24 hour trading as of today due to concerns over staff safety. They've had customers climbing on pallets as they've tried to restock overnight, and throwing trolleys at them when they've tried to get them to stop.
While normally can get next day online shopping was booked all week. Ventured out to Aldi, busy but got nearly all usual supplies and some rationed loo roll. Just seemed like it was Chicken and tinned veg missing.
Called in to the big Sainsburys round the corner and in contrast it looked decimated, even the fresh veg. Check out staff looked exausted, said there had been queues before opening and non stop all day. Also no Chicken...?!
Found two rolls of bog roll in the caravan!!! We are saved.
How soon before cash machines start running dry?
[strong]anagallis_arvensis[/strong] wrote:
Found two rolls of bog roll in the caravan!!! We are saved.
How soon before cash machines start running dry?
Seems a really expensive way to wipe your arse?
Yup totally absurd and unnecessary.
Do you really believe that now, given how it has escalated again today? Feel free to carry on thinking supply-chains won’t be effected, but right now I think you’re in a rapidly-reducing minority.
Seems a really expensive way to wipe your arse?
And potentially painful with those sharp new plastic 20s. 🙂
RM.
Gave back a couple of anti bac hand soap bottles to the local corner shop tonight. Bought them a few weeks back when I thought it was pretty obvious things were going south.
He sold all his and has had to order 2 massively over priced bottles from eBay for him and the other guy in the shop.
He's a nice guy and I suspect this is going to hit his little shop hard.
My local Morrisons hasn’t had bog roll on any of my visits since last Friday. Today they had signs up restricting the quantities each shopper can buy and there still weren’t any left at 4:40.
Hmmm, that might account for the two blokes having a full-on scrap in the local Morrisons in the last day or so!
My g/f works on the till in one of the Chippenham B&M stores, and she’s been coming home exhausted, but at least people have generally been polite, apart from the entitled baggage who threw a hissy fit because Jo was using her own bottle of hand gel, and wouldn’t put it on the counter for others to steal use.
johndoh wrote:
Do you really believe that now, given how it has escalated again today? Feel free to carry on thinking supply-chains won’t be effected, but right now I think you’re in a rapidly-reducing minority.
Yes I still believe all the panic buying, hoarding and stock piling is absurd and totally unnecessary. What you are doing is just perpetuating this madness.
Yes I still believe all the panic buying, hoarding and stock piling is absurd and totally unnecessary. What you are doing is just perpetuating this madness.
+1
Went to Sainsbury’s tonight. Stripped of almost everything except boot polish and flan cases.
*googles recipe for Cherry Blossom and Kiwi flan*
The problem now is not the idiots panic buying 100 rolls of bog paper, it's the sensible people that have seen the aisles empty of certain things for a week or two now and with no sign things are going to improve for the next 2-3 months are deciding to buy stuff when they see it available, even if they don't need it there and then they will need it in the extended time frame.
I'm OK for tp for now, by happy coincidence I got 16 rolls in a bogof offer before the mess started (double what I'd normally buy). If I hadn't and only had a roll or two left then why would it be absurd to buy 20 rolls if I found them in stock in the supermarket next visit?
So absolutely my attitude perpetuates the madness but I have zero confidence enough people will make a stand against the madness to allow the supply situation to return to normal any time soon (if you do you're deluded, this is the population that voted for Brexit and BoJo ffs) - I'd now rather be part of the problem with a clean arse than taking the moral high ground with a dirty arse.
At least you're not in the US where people are panic buying guns.
Chap in Sainsbury's this morning was trying to buy 12 bags of pasta - he really wasn't a happy bunny when the cashier told him he was limited to 2 and proceeded to take the others of the checkout.
Has anyone even seen hand sanitizer for sale recently?
Has anyone even seen hand sanitizer for sale recently?
no but i havn't been looking though.
Plenty of bar soap available everywhere though.
Nappies were of prime concern yesterday but i found one remaining bag of 84 in lidl yesterday.
I have not used the garden veg patch to its full extent the last few years, I may up its production this year just in case.........
Haven't done a proper shop for 2 weeks so will hit Tesco tomorrow, fortunately not needing loo roll! Kind neighbour has offered to get me any shopping which was nice.
Went to Asda last night after work, being gluten free I thought I would be safe from the panic buying madness (who would eat this stuff if they didn't have to?) I was wrong. Most shelves down to the stuff die hard Coeliacs wouldn't touch with a barge pole.
If its been taken by 'normal' folk I hope you got the shock of your life when paying for it and it tasted like cardboard when you ate it! Welcome to my world.
Just shop local.
Milkman dropped milk eggs and butter off this morning
Greengrocer is dropping of fruit n veg.
Butchers good for meat and cheese.
And my local offy is on Twitter proudly stating to buying restrictions.
Local co ops all ok too.
#shoplocal
Just shop local.
Milkman dropped milk eggs and butter off this morning
Greengrocer is dropping of fruit n veg.
Butchers good for meat and cheese.
And my local offy is on Twitter proudly stating to buying restrictions.
Local co ops all ok too.
#shoplocal
Good post. I'm getting into gear with asking local producers what they can do for me.
Local Co-op this morning had limited toilet paper, no pasta or those awful pasta sauces, hardly any tinned tomatoes or veg, just a one kilo bag of flour left. Everything else was normal stock levels or the staff were stocking from the various cage trolleys around the store. Woman on the checkout said there's enough in the systems, it just needs the lorries to get to them to deliver stuff.
Last week my wife bought toilet rolls since we were running out - had to get an "18 pack" as all the "9 packs" had gone. Eh? If you were going to stockpile then you'd grab the biggest and easiest package to move. At the rate we use it that 18-pack's somewhere between 16 & 18 weeks supply.
At the rate we use it that 18-pack’s somewhere between 16 & 18 weeks supply.
One toilet roll a week? Sounds like you're dicing with poke-through risk every single day.
My Mrs told me she couldn't get a 9 pack of bog roll like normal, said she got a 4 pack instead. I asked if she had got 2 and she moaned on about panic buying and couldn't understand that it would still have been less than she normally gets.
She did get 4 bottles of whisky tho, there are some things she won't take a chance on 🙂
Maker's Mark is on offer at Tesco, so it's not all bad news.
A couple of food manufacturers I speak to last week said the orders into supermarkets had gone up by about 25%-40% daily.
This week, they have said they will take everything they can make.
Producers and supermarkets are coining it in. So are we; we supply them.
Eventually the morons will have full cupboards and normal folk can come out to shop again.
Eventually the morons will have full cupboards and normal folk can come out to shop again.
Except it seems some s filling garages or spare rooms, buying more freezers etc.
My father watched a family of 4 do laps of an Aldi today - all buying the maximum allowed each time/full trolley of identical things. They had a builders transit van and a car full before a security guard realised what was happening...
Some woman this morning was filling a trolley with UHT milk before the staff told her to put all but 2 back.
And that's despite Pat Mustard's advice...l
Half serious question. Can I use disk brake cleaner to sanitise my hands? I've got loads of that...
Can I use disk brake cleaner to sanitise my hands? I’ve got loads of that…
I love the smell of gt85 in the morning...
Popped in to a Lidl tonight to try and buy my mum some Kitchen roll and salted butter (one pack of each, no panic going on with her).
Christ! It was as if it had been hit by a swarm of locusts! All long life food was gone and the meat aisle was also empty.
They did have a twin pack of kitchen roll though, so I was happy 🙂
Went to Asda last night after work, being gluten free I thought I would be safe from the panic buying madness (who would eat this stuff if they didn’t have to?) I was wrong.
The free from aisle was the best stocked aisle in my local Tesco today, I succumbed to panic buying and bought 2 boxes of gf oatcakes instead of 1!
I was in a gym equipment shop this afternoon, the guy there said it had been non stop all day and they had sold shed loads of free weights and machines - much more so then normal, must be people wanting to burn off the dried pasta and tinned tuna mountains
I've panic bought an extra box of contact lenses. I still have 15 pairs left in my previous box which at my current useage equates to 5 weeks supply.
Can someone explain why Morrison’s are completely out of dishwasher tabs? Not that you can wash your hands with them
Just got back from Sainsbury’s. They still had some milk - no semi-skimmed, and some bread rolls. No loaves.
Zero fruit or vegetables, except two different types of mushroom.
Popped into Aldi today. Meat, tins, bread, milk decimated. Mountains of fresh fruit and veg. The Fife/Scotland diet!
needed some bog roll so wife popped into tesco's. 1 pack left at a fiver, which is more than we'd normally pay but she thought ah well, we need some and these are desperate days :-/
took it to the till and it rang through at £9. er....surely some mistake she says, theyre a fiver.
nope, the price is changing constantly due to demand says the cashier. have em back then, im not paying that, id rather use a sock.
we have plenty of socks.
not just the hoarders in it for themselves.....
Was talking to a customer today who was renovating his kitchen. He was arranging delivery of a cooker and the lady at the supplier said it had been carnage. They usually sell 2-3 chest freezers per week, but had just emptied the warehouse of 65 that they had in stock! (and couldn't get any replacement stock as everywhere was the same).
So the wazzocks that panic bought all the dry goods have moved on to buying and freezing all the perishables! Hence now empty bread and meat shelves.....
Unbelievable.
Yep - my mother and father in law’s freezer broke down this week. Nowhere has any for sale. Mad.
The Sainsbury's local near us has most stuff apart from loo roll and flour. Online is another matter - we went to book our regular weekly Sainsbury's delivery and every slot for the next 3 weeks is taken (and they only do 3 week windows so we couldn't book one).
tomhoward
Subscriber
Half serious question. Can I use disk brake cleaner to sanitise my hands? I’ve got loads of that…
Burn everything muhahahahahahahahahahahaha
Seem to have lost all willpower against binging on chocolate and sweet pastries sweets anything like that.
Apparently, the cause of the two muppets laying into one another in Morrisons was the last pack of pasta...
What a world we live in today, eh?
Some people need to give the hysteria of social media (outlet for morons twitter) and news a rest for a while!
Even heard a hilarious conspiracy theory doing the rounds from a middle-aged adult who should know better! Jeezuz people really are thick as ****.
@CountZero - Gone are the heady days of punch-ups over discounted/shite Blaupunkt TV's.
Wen't to Lidl and Morrisons earlier to get some fresh meals for the week, didn't expect to come back depressed and anxious. Sort of wish I still had the allotment!
Needless to say it's St Patrick's Day so I'm breaking lent with some beer and chocolate... that will make me feel better until I get on the scales in the morning...
needed some bog roll so wife popped into tesco’s. 1 pack left at a fiver, which is more than we’d normally pay but she thought ah well, we need some and these are desperate days :-/
took it to the till and it rang through at £9. er….surely some mistake she says, theyre a fiver.
nope, the price is changing constantly due to demand says the cashier. have em back then, im not paying that, id rather use a sock.
If they do that, what’s the point of printing price labels? Surely all prices would always be fluctuating?
Why are supermarkets not implementing rationing?
Morrisons have recently done this in-store and Waitrose have limits for online orders; I don't know about others but it appears they haven't.
I hear and read the words about robust supply chains, food security etc but am unconvinced.
Stores used to have warehouses attached and could carry significant replenishment stocks but those days are long gone.
Now it's algorithms and distribution centres working on just-in-time basis; we've all seen occurrences when deliveries are just too late, not just-in-time.
Will the current situation lead to stores carrying stock just in case?
Been for the weekly shop this evening at the big Sainsbury’s in town. Quiet in there but it was past 8. Very little choice of fresh stuff - fruit, veg and meat - especially ‘regular choices’. Sympathy bought some Brussel Sprouts (I love ‘em!) and 2 x packs of peppers padron! Got most of stuff I wanted or alternatives. No eggs, pasta and bog roll looked empty but didn’t look closely as we don’t need any. Rather thankfully crisps and biscuits were in plentiful supply, as were beer and wine. Dunno anyone who’d by a shit load of chicken breasts rather than a double pack of dark choccie digestives.
As someone said above, it’s a pretty depressing experience overall. Although did had a nice chat with the cashier! Not looking forwards to having to do it twice a week as the folks are now home bound for the foreseeable.
RM.
not a fan of Tesco at all but I don’t believe even for 1 second that happened as described without seeing some kind of proof. It would be national news if they were doing this. Retailers have already been warned against profiteering.took it to the till and it rang through at £9. er….surely some mistake she says, theyre a fiver.
nope, the price is changing constantly due to demand says the cashier
The moment you get told you need to isolate yourself from the world for 2 weeks is not really the best time to do a big shop to make things more comfortable.
Maybe but it depends on what you have in. I did a grab run because I was next to a super market I'd been in the same morning before the heat kicked in - I used a few basic rules - gel clean hands, stay away from people by a few meters, touch it you buy it - got some random soup flavours. I've still had to get a mate to do a milk drop and if my neighbour wasn't going shopping today I'd be out of bread.
Apparently there's now not much in the way of veg in the local shops. When I can get out and shop again in a couple of days - atleast I've still got a bit of fresh veg and enough frozen rather than no fresh and few half less than half full packs of frozen. I'm not desperate for stuff if I cant find.
From the wealth of information on here and messaging people it seems to be a mix of fine it's only the big supper markets; so long as you are happy with random things you can get stuff to full locust experience.
Maybe the garden centre first and buy seeds and compost - had already decided to try a bit of grow your own action before all of this. No one start a run on seeds and peat free compost before Friday. Other than that the plan is to buy enough so I'm not loosing time to and fro to the shops too regularly.
zilog - agree, it's not credible; reputational damage would be huge.
Corner shop, possibly; national retailer - no.
Went to Sainsbury after Mrs Dubs came home from work. Only fresh stuff was two type of mushrooms (we bought chestnut in case you care). Whole aisles of shelves completely empty
Popped into Costco after dinner and we were able to get some spuds and courgettes. Bought a few other bits whilst we were in there - quite a bit of fresh on the shelves, but they have no reserves anywhere, just whats on the shop floor.
All the racking above was empty.
They had packets of biscuits where the cereals usually go, and no drugs of any sort.
So a bit mad but not as mad as Sainsbury...
tomhoward
Subscriber
Half serious question. Can I use disk brake cleaner to sanitise my hands? I’ve got loads of that…
It likey would, though Tetrachloroethylene is pretty nasty stuff I think?
That said, the main issue would be that it evaporates very fast meaning it might not have time to kill the virus.
That's why im watering down the vast quantities of IPA I now own from 99% to about 70%.
Wat watch do one by 4 corona bounce
^^ A coronograph?