[News] Panic buying.

[Shropshire Seagull]

Hey, what if the real issue is the transport network can't get the goods through quick enough ...

aka everything in short supply ...

 

[OzMike]

Been going on for a couple of weeks here now and it is bloody ridiculous. People panic buying cause those that don't to follow suit, though too late for them/us.
Anyone would think that there is a bloody war on.
Crazy times, stores are going to introduce rationing it soon !

 

[OzMike]

Hey, what if the real issue is the transport network can't get the goods through quick enough ...

aka everything in short supply ...

Wake up will you, short supply due to panic buying, fact.

 

[Fungus]

Went to the Pak'n'Save (more Asda than Waitrose) in Rotorua* and every trolley was piled high with bog rolls. Are people confusing this with Norovirus?

*Just showing off.

 

[Paulie Gualtieri]

My Tesco delivery went without incident, all 408 toilet rolls were there


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[Ooh it’s a corner]

My Tesco delivery went without incident, all 408 toilet rolls were there


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Won’t your op affect the front more than the back though?

 

[Bodian]

The cat's okay - just had about four months worth of food delivered. So - nothing to worry about!

 

[Wrong-Direction]

Just been to my local which I wont name, thought I'd bought the last 2 packs of andrex before seeing a mountain of them in the corner! The only thing I'm finding difficult to find is quorn chicken and Linda McCartney sausages!

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[Psychobilly freakout]

The cat's okay - just had about four months worth of food delivered. So - nothing to worry about!

I like it forward planning, fatten up the cat, just in case you run low on food.

Cat a l'orange... mmmm

 

[Dolph Ins]

Just back from Sainsbury and can confirm the end of the world is neigh. It's not going to be the virus which gets us but starvation and a dirty bum. Got the last pack of loo roll (coconut flavour wtf), no pasta, tinned tomatoes or oatcakes, why oatcakes? It seems the virus attacks the rational part of the brain before the respiratory system.

 

[Justice]

Why the toilet paper carnage?

 

[Psychobilly freakout]

Just back from Sainsbury and can confirm the end of the world is neigh. It's not going to be the virus which gets us but starvation and a dirty bum. Got the last pack of loo roll (coconut flavour wtf), no pasta, tinned tomatoes or oatcakes, why oatcakes? It seems the virus attacks the rational part of the brain before the respiratory system.

Sainsbury in Shoreham...

Pasta isle and the loo roll isle was exactly the same last night...

Simply madness, what's wrong with people in Shoreham, don't they like cannelloni or what !!

 

[Gilliver's Travels]

Why the toilet paper carnage?

They're on a roll.

 

[Psychobilly freakout]

They're on a roll.

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[el punal]

I went into Sainsbury’s to buy some Panic but they’d sold out.

 

[Icy Gull]

Just been to the shops to do some panic buying for this weekend’s meals. It’s like the Four Fecking Horseman Of The Apocalypse are on their way out there today. Even the petrol station had queues. It’s pathetic

 

[Icy Gull]

Why the toilet paper carnage?

The country is shitting itself?

 

[dejavuatbtn]

I think the run on toilet rolls is completely media caused. NOBODY wants to end up without loo paper so saying it’s being panic purchased on the news only ramps it up

Especially as an alternative is the Sun.

 

[Algernon]

Went to Tesco last night at about 23:00 and a grumpy shelf stacker had a go at me for being a panic buyer.
I had about 6 things in my trolley. I couldn't stop myself calling him a silly sausage.

 

[Neville's Breakfast]

There seems to be a pretty uniform view on here that stocking up is a bad idea. I’m wondering what you are all going to eat if you have to self isolate for a couple of weeks or longer. We have stocked up and will continue to replenish as it is the rational thing to do. The real panic will come from people who catch the virus and haven’t stocked up.