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I find the milk one very odd
I assume the 'logic' is it requires a good supply chain to be maintained to keep farm to dairy and dairy to supermarket deliveries going, can't really stockpile it for long.
It's flour that seems more bizarre to me, is everyone now making cakes and pies because canned goods are hard to find? Flour lasts ages but it's not like rice & pasta you can just eat it if things really go to shit. It didn't even seem to be bread flour affected so it's not like it's caused by people reverting to making their own bread as off the shelf loaves are in short supply.
it doesn’t keep so there’s no point in stockpiling, what on earth are people doing with it?
Freezing it I assume - we usually have an emergency bottle in the freezer in case we run out between our normal weekly shop and, with the WFH and our children being off school now, we had to break out the emergency bottle just this morning so I could have a decent latte.
We bought flour for the first time in ages. As we are working from home we have time to do some baking. We are also using more of things like milk and bog roll than we would if we were both out all day.
Having large numbers of people suddenly working from home and not eating out or using takeaways is going to have an impact on shopping habits. Although I appreciate it is only a small part of the problem.
didn’t even seem to be bread flour affected so it’s not like it’s caused by people reverting to making their own bread
Come again ? Are you saying you cannot make bread with regular flour ?
Freezing it I assume – we usually have an emergency bottle in the freezer in case we run out between our normal weekly shop
Presumably people are doing this with the double quantities of fresh veg that they've bought this week. This will be dragged out of the freezer in a few weeks, turn to mush and be binned. Or is everyone at home dicing, parboiling and bagging up?
I generally buy as and when needed but have done some limited topping up recently - two local farm shops have been great other than their butchers having no chicken either whole or bits.
Did some shopping for elder son today; he works away and his partner c/w baby has been with her parents in B/ham so got most of theirs from farm shops then went to Waitrose for few outstanding bits.
Good news and bad news; bad first - as you would expect...bog roll, disinfectant, cleaning wipes, pasta, rice, tinned toms, fresh veg completely stripped.
Good news - the locusts clearly don't fancy artisan olives, squid and octopus in salsa negra, tinned confit duck legs, escargots, haggis or dates.
My unscientific view from Edinburgh is that Waitrose suffers far more badly from panic buying (or at least their shelves empty more quickly) I don't know if this just shows that the affluent have the readies to buy more stuff or whether there is a deeper sociological meaning.
I think it is a middle & upper class (who can afford it) issue, IMO.
I also think that it is partly the 20-40% of meals in the UK that were take out or eat out, more being home cooked by people with time in thier hands, so using more fresh ingredients.
Plus some utterly selfish individuals.
The webcam that I want to buy has all been sold out all over ... 😒
Our Waitrose had baked beans but no tinned toms, tinned beans very low. Lentils - none!! Arborio rice - none. Demonstrates the menus put on by Jocasta.
An old guy gazing at the empty shelves said "I was in the war and it wasn't this bad".
"Yes", said I, "but this time no-ones dropping bombs".
Spare a thought for those of us self-isolating and unable to even decide whether to panic buy or not.
One of wife's friends picked up a few bits for us yesterday afternoon.
Arrived with a small loaf of ****ing Nimble bread. For a family of four.
All that was left apparently.
“We’re British and won two world wars, so this doesn’t apply to is plucky Brits.”😕
Richard Osman nailed that one.
People still congregating in busy spaces saying ‘it’s the Dunkirk sprit’, need to understand that in this scenario they’re actually being the Luftwaffe.
Today’s panic buy purchases:
24 cans of Purity beer, bought at cost as the pub was shutting and he wanted it out the door.
6 pints of takeaway beer from the local brewery.
1 sourdough loaf.
4 cakes.
Solid afternoons work that was.
An old guy gazing at the empty shelves said “I was in the war and it wasn’t this bad”.
“Yes”, said I, “but this time no-ones dropping bombs”.
Was it meant to make him feel better about the situation. Please let him have seen the sliver of funny side because it doesn't read very well how you have written it.
He smiled.
I'm glad because it read quite callous.
I realise tone is everything though and you don't get it on text.
Speaking of freezers, Argos only have 3 chest freezers available at time of writing.
That isn't the local Argos, that's a national search
https://www.argos.co.uk/browse/appliances/fridges-and-freezers/freezers/c:29618/type:chest-freezers/
Currys have none
andy - so many pricks out there.
No doubt those ignorant and smug arses who've been panic buying freezers don't give a flying one about anyone else.
Guaranteed they haven't asked neighbours if they're ok or need any help.
I wouldn't piss on them if they were on fire.
May they rot in hell.
Hurray, managed to get a pack of bog roll this morning, so I treated myself to some lentils.
andy – so many pricks out there.
No doubt those ignorant and smug arses who’ve been panic buying freezers don’t give a flying one about anyone else.
Guaranteed they haven’t asked neighbours if they’re ok or need any help.
I wouldn’t piss on them if they were on fire.
May they rot in hell.
Agreed!
Surely things must quieten down soon? Once you’ve filled one garage with toilet roll, pasta and paracetamol, you don’t need a second garage full!?
Local shops.
Walked to local coop
Plenty bread milk eggs only things missing I wanted were pasta or flour to make pasta.
Plenty fruit veg and meat....didnt buy any as we don't need
Supermarkets have been wiped out by 9 am all week
Surely things must quieten down soon? Once you’ve filled one garage with toilet roll, pasta and paracetamol, you don’t need a second garage full!?
It is not just toilet roll and pasta though and as people's food runs out and they realise you can't live on pasta and toilet roll they will continue to panic buy.
There should be rationing at shops. Very easy to do with online shop as can be controlled to one delivery per household per week and only one of each item. Bit harder with supermarkets so would need a ration book approach I suppose otherwise people could go to a different supermarket many times a day.
My sister works in the local small village Co-Op.One middle aged ‘lady’ at the counter had, amongst other things, 5 containers of baby milk powder, essentially clearing half the days stock of this item. My sister, who has young children herself asked whether the powder was for her or a relatives child and how old they were. The reply was ‘oh no, its for our tea and coffee when the milk supplies run out’. My sister has now been temporarily removed from her customer facing role as telling a customer that they are a wretched ignorant selfish see you next Tuesday is not an appropriate response.
I’m torn between my natural see the best in everybody leanings and my hope that these type of people are indeed wiped out by this virus.....☹️
Local Aldi had everything we needed this morning except macho hand moisturizer - all this extra hand washing is ruining them - skimmed milk, tinned veg/baked beans and pain au chocolat. Everyone calm, sensible, courteous and good natured.
Local farm shop looked busy as well, though it is also home to the village microbrewery
Formula milk should be on production of the red book. Same way you get Calpol on minor ailments
Marks and Spencer fully stocked in Knaresborough.
Have to be honest, if I saw someone with a trolley full of toilet rolls in the car park, I'd just take one straight out of their trolley and would encourage others to do the same.
My mum is upset because she's severely coeliac and people are buying all the gluten free items because the normal stuff is sold out.
Hurray, managed to get a pack of bog roll this morning, so I treated myself to some lentils.
If you’re anything like my vegetarian wife I’d say you’re in negative equity there.
I see the forced closure of pubs and bars has had an immediate effect - the beer and wine shelves and cooler in our local Co-op were 3/4 empty. No panic buying honest.
Surely things must quieten down soon?
I hope so, we're in the 3 months of self isolation club due to my being immunocompromised. Local shops having produce isn't so useful when you're stuck relying on delivery and the likes of Tesco having no delivery slots in the diary is not ideal!
@chvck - if you are within 40 miles of stevenage then send me a message and I will bring you stuff
Thanks for the offer @grahamt1980, no where near though. I've also managed to bag a delivery slot with Tesco for the 30th so we'll be reet so long as they have stuff back on the site by then.
Reassuring to know that there are people out there who will help though 🙂
Running seriously low on chocolate now, friends have been dropping off bread, eggs & milk but my wife won't ask them to pick me up some nice 70% cocoa.
🙁
I can't remember all the way back through this thread, is there anyone actually admitting to panic buying or stockpiling?
Someone must be doing it all, if its anyone reading this then you are a terrible terrible person.
Yep - johndoh said we were all thick for holding off.
my mum saw a woman in Aldi yesterday being told to put 2 of the 4 loaves she had back.
"but I need to feed the birds"
FFS
Bit of a spending spree/panic buy over the past couple days for myself - all stuff i consider essential to the current situation, a few cases of nice beer from vocation brewery thanks to their 20% discount and i needed a new iPad as my old-old iPad mini is getting a bit laggy so i bought an iPad pro 11" (apple refurb store), apple pencil 2 and a steel series nimbus controller - and while i was out on the bike today i stopped off and bought 4 boxes of eggs from my local farm road end so i guess thats me set for the full lockdown thats coming for us all.
See you all on the other side
Bit of morale today, frozen pasties! I'm 200miles away from my family as it, might as well have come home comforts.
Lots of local businesses setting up meat/veg boxes and pubs/restaurants doing take out, will be looking to use those in the coming weeks.
chvck
If you do get stuck shout out on here. someone will live close enough to help out.
trail_rat
MemberCome again ? Are you saying you cannot make bread with regular flour ?
1. Define regular flour.
2. You can make "Bread" of sorts with most flours but don't expect it to be as you wanted.
Our holiday was cancelled so we had no food in the house as we should be away, last week before the panic buying started we did our usual big shop including a load of meals we cook up for the freezer due to shift working. We cooked it all up tonight, if it comes to it we can supply our elderly neighbours with pre-cooked chilli, meatballs and sausage casserole for a couple of days.
So I’ve not been to the supermarket all week and I’m not looking forward to it. We’re running a bit low on a couple of bits, I’m hoping the small local shops/grocers will have what we need.
We found some yeast in the back of the cupboard this evening so we’re going to try and make bread tomorrow.... I’m not expecting it to go that well.
Panic bought a turbo, in swift before the lock 😉
Panic bought a turbo, in swift before the lock 😉
We have too 🤣
Just hope the cassette turns up before the couriers stop working!
We found some yeast in the back of the cupboard this evening so we’re going to try and make bread tomorrow…. I’m not expecting it to go that well.
Knead it till your arms are dropping off, then another 10-15 minutes, then let it rise. Add sesame/pumpkin seeds to the mix, adds a little nutty-ness to the flavour
sweepy
MemberI can’t remember all the way back through this thread, is there anyone actually admitting to panic buying or stockpiling?
I went out and did a normal shop, nearly managed anyway but just as I was going around someone ripped open the last box of bags of rice- like, properly crazy person ripped it open like it was a race- and I felt compelled to get a bag. So that's us fully stockpiled, one bag rice.
Totally normal in my local Large Tesco this morning at 6am. Not loads of stuff, but they had toilet roll, paracetamol, pasta, eggs, flour, tinned tomatoes, beer/wine, olive oil, etc.
Saying that, there wasn't a lot of stock of anything, so by 10:00, it's mostly all going to be gone.
Early bird and all that.
Spoke to the manager at our local Aldi today and he reckons the worst of the panic buying is over. Said it’s starting to feel like either the message that we’re not going to run out is getting through or that people just have no room left.
The shelves weren’t bulging there but there was some of everything.
You do not want to face the wrath of my bunghole
My g/f works at one of the local B&M stores, they’ve implemented a one in, one out policy, and limits on certain products, and things are a lot easier for the staff now - she was coming home exhausted trying to deal with the stupidity of the buying public.
A friend of mine has just got back from a holiday in India, and she and her husband were watching news reports from the U.K. out there, just looking at each other and going “w t actual f is going on? What’s got into people, and wtf is it with the bog rolls!?”
I told her that half the population is panic buying bog rolls, the other half can’t figure out why!
I told her that half the population is panic buying bog rolls, the other half can’t figure out why!
I’m going to end up looking like one of the crazy bog roll hoarders, we’ve got enough, just a normal amount. But it’ll run out eventually and then I’ll have to go to the supermarket to buy only bog roll, it’s the only thing I don’t think I can get anywhere else.
Haven't you heard the worlds bog roll supply comes from one factory in Wuhan, makes you think eh......
Spare room fill it to the ceiling, the garage, the loft, the shed, the outhouse and in STW fashion the servants quarters.
Haven’t you heard the worlds bog roll supply comes from one factory in Wuhan, makes you think eh……
stop spreading lies Chester, it doesn’t help people. Everyone only needs to do a quick google to find out that the UK is a major producer and exporter of bog roll and supplies are stacked to rafters, even considering that, they can produce more in one day than we need straight off the line.
There a consensual moratorium on fake news for others peoples well being it’d be helpful if you could observe it.
Wow! Sense of humour failure!
Well the panic buying seems to have stopped here at least.
Aldi @ 11:30am all the shelves pretty much full, even my usual wine was plentiful & toilet roll aplenty 🙂
Last week I was finding it hard to find much at all but that might be as I was shopping around 6:30pm after work.
I'm on holiday this week so can at least go in the middle of the day.
Definitely seems a lot better in Bristol shops now. Aldi has pretty much everything yesterday at 3pm. Except paracetamol which is proving a pain as I'm on it near constantly for a broken leg at the moment. My partner's NHS so she's been popping into the local sainsburys during their NHS hour on the way to work thankfully.
My main concern at the moment is our freezer has been on the ropes for a while and as mentioned on the previous page everywhere is either closed or completely out of stock of them!
BS6 Waitrose had a queue around the block this morning. Instead my wife went to local greengrocer (only 3 people waiting) and an Express Tesco opposite.
Lager delivery expected later..
Well the panic buying seems to have stopped here at least.
Same here, Mrs went for first shop in tescos since the start of panic buying this morning and all reasonably stocked just a bit less on the shelves than normal. Toilet roll pasta etc all available.
Same here, Mrs went for first shop in tescos since the start of panic buying this morning and all reasonably stocked just a bit less on the shelves than normal. Toilet roll pasta etc all available.
Exactly this on our local Sainsbury except I grabbed the last bottle of Ketchup, and wine/beer were very low. You could see stocks were lower than usual but I've done a complete weekly shop, avoided the temptation to put "extra"s in the basket.
Top tip, the Sainburys App is brilliant, scan and pack as you go with your phone then walk up to the self checkout avoiding the long 2m x 2m queues to pay and walk out.
However, not everybody is avoiding the social distancing rules despite being announced regularly on the tannoy, so many ignorant or selfish people.
Buying to have 2-3 weeks of good healthy food as a reserve is not panic buying. Just build your reserve gradually.
Just back from Tesco and the queues are outside because of the limit on customers in store. Great when the suns shining but less optimal when it's slashing down.
Shelves still pretty bare, but got everything with substitutions. No chance of flour though.
Baking with the kids will have to wait.
Asda Aberdeen 0730 this morning as wide awake and not much else to do! First visit to a supermarket for over a week and not bad apart from a moron who tried to queue jump (all of 8 people) and then had a hissy fit when told to get to the back and promptly left.
Not so clever inside, as despite arrows and markers, people standing right beside each other gazing at the shelves, with staff the worst offenders. Check out was also a shambles re 'distancing' and not helped by stroppy checkout woman who was insisting people got closer to each other AND her at the till! God knows how bad it must be when it's actually busy!
Plenty of everything on shelves though.
I’ll have to go to the supermarket to buy only bog roll, it’s the only thing I don’t think I can get anywhere else.
At the height of the supermarket panic buying last week, local corner shops and the village shops round here were boasting of having loo roll available.
Just build your reserve gradually.
I think you'll find the population has been doing that since WW2. Not in cupboards either, we have our own self-carriage facilities.
IGMC
I went this morning to our local Tesco for usual weekly shop.
Seems folk are still panic buying - checkout was saying that a lot of folk are coming in when the truck does a delivery and buying three of everything...
Yesterday i felt dead posh buying expensive chopped tomatoes not the tesco value ones.
Couldnt get yeast still or pasta or polenta or hand sanitiser or chapati flour.
I did buy a smart turbo from my lbs though that was certainly a panic buy!!
Haven't done a food shop for 2 weeks. Daughter has ordered me not to go out and to order online instead. Haven't yet investigated that but not much good if I have to wait a month. Zero waste shop has temporarily closed so that means more from the supermarket.
Amazon Pantry - anyone used? Will investigate local delivery services but when you're a one person household you don't want masses of stuff especially with having a small freezer.
Are any of you managing to get groceries delivered?
I've just had a look at ASDA deliveries for my postcode and there aren't any available slots for the next 2 weeks.
Tried, Sainsbury’s, Ocado, and Morrison’s and they’re all fully booked up for both collections and delivery.
'Click and collect' ?
My local Asda has C&C available in the second week of April and that's it, none of the others have anything on C&C or delivery at all. Thankfully I booked our regular weekly shops with Tesco so we are sorted until 14 April although I do think we may run out of some bits as we are regularly not being able to get some items. I am now feeling relieved we did buy one extra big pack of toilet roll, tinned tuna, pasta, plain flour and baked beans around the time I started this thread.
I am pleased that our girls have tried (and liked) some new meals we have been doing now we are on a slightly restricted diet.
went to local Tesco Express at about 9.30 - still surprisingly bare shelves. No tomatoes, pasta, flour, very little meat and hardly any veg. No bog roll obviously. I bought enough to get us through the next 3 or 4 days but i was surprised how sparse it still was. On the plus side, everyone was very well behaved re social distancing, and they have a little 'cleaning station' next to the baskets so you can wipe the handles of your basket before you start
it makes you look at your cupboards in a new light though. tonight i'll be using up the chestnuts and sausage meat that's still in the freezer from Xmas
I managed to get an ASDA slot on the 11th April. Nothing else anywhere before then though.
We'll likely have to brave the Supermarket before then i think, or at the very least our village shop.
Seems to have settled down a bit here, wee Tesco extra well stocked, Hopefully that'll continue.
they have a little ‘cleaning station’ next to the baskets so you can wipe the handles of your basket before you start
Oh, you poor things.... Our local Waitrose has somebody employed to spray and wipe the baskets and trolleys for us. They also insist on pressing the lift buttons to save customers doing so.
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Well the panic buying seems to have stopped here at least.
Can’t say the same about Asda Eastlands.
Just on way home after called after work. Still pretty much empty shelves for a lot of stuff.
Not sure what it’s like at 8am when it opens but if you need to go later on it seems it’s still not so great.
Thinking it’s that big people are just assuming it’s going to have what they need.
Seems this is the wrong month to want to upgrade to some heavier plates and dumbells.
Can't find a single place online that has any in stock.
Now I'm forced to physically move the ones I have from one bar to the next between exercises.
And it doesn't look as good in the mirror using lots of smaller plates compared to fewer big ones.
I guess this is what you call taking one for the team. 🙁
I’ve heard of Sainsbury’s delivery’s being poor with lots missing - I get that as they pick from stores.
Does anyone know if Ocado deliveries are better? We’ve got one coming Sunday and I’ve been self isolating for 10 days so far, so really need a good full shop.
We are now down to the last few rolls in a family of 5....
According to an acquaintance who works the tills at Tesco they have a neighbour, single, over 60 who has 6no. 24roll bog rolls in his garage, hidden behind the stack of tins and pasta... I may need to do some garage breaking in soon...
This morning at a town centre Sainso's there was a 10 min well behaved queue to get in but I got 90%+ of what I was after if not exactly the brand/pack I'd normally buy. Frozen food, tinned stuff, bog roll and soap were the obvious holes but eggs, meat, pasta etc all available. The only issue with social distancing was where they're redeveloping the high street so pedestrian access is via 2 narrow corridors down each side.