[News] Panic buying.

[Neville's Breakfast]

You can still get supermarket deliveries if you are self isolating.

Normal flu has a major impact on me. No chance of being fit enough to fill in an internet form or make a phone call, especially with the severity of Coronavirus. I am happy to be well stocked at home and see no reason to take a risk.

 

[Pinkie Brown]

Plenty in Lidl yesterday and Kaufland today. No 'hamsterkäufe' here - doesn't happen in Germany.

 

[monty uk]

Plenty in Lidl yesterday and Kaufland today. No 'hamsterkäufe' here - doesn't happen in Germany.

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German toilet rolls are crap.

They don't last anywhere near as long as ours. That pile would probably last an average family two or three weeks. They should be dumped in favour of good ol' Andrex.

 

[Mr Bridger]

 

[schmunk]

I went to buy some paracetamols earlier, to find the Lloyds chemists shelves empty.
The pharmacist said people had been panic buying. Idiots.
Ive got a headache.

Me too - I had to buy disgusting capsules this afternoon rather than tablets, and at 3 times the price.

I enquired at the till about hand sanitizer, to be told that there had been queue at the door at 08:30 to panic buy it all!

 

[Motogull]

My lad has just been to the local Asda for diabetes inducing shite. He has reported no chuff paper and no pasta on the shelves.

They walk among us.

 

[BN9 BHA]

Loads of empty heads at Tesco Durrington

Slight edit

 

[BN9 BHA]

6 Generations of inbreeding completely fearless (and senseless) pyromaniacs tends to do that

TBH you would struggle to find anyone actually from Lewes living in the town these days.
They should rename it DFL central

 

[Mr Bridger]

One of these is way too happy for what’s coming.

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

Plenty in Lidl yesterday and Kaufland today. No 'hamsterkäufe' here - doesn't happen in Germany.

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Tho they do have a pretty neat word for it

 

[Hampster Gull]

One of these is way too happy for what’s coming.
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[Bry Nylon]

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That thumbnail? Which bit of 'wash your hands thoroughly' didn't you see?

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

I don’t get it as certainly doesn’t seem to be any real problems yet in South London except with Paracetamol.

There are none in the jungle either, because the parrots eat ‘em all.

 

[Mr Bridger]

That thumbnail? Which bit of 'wash your hands thoroughly' didn't you see?

Ha, not mine but I guess that he had run out of paper and just had a matchstick.

 

[The Antikythera Mechanism]

I went to my local supermarket and bought all the Oxo and Knorr cubes. My wife accused me of stockpiling.

 

[Publius Ovidius]

I have just panic bought cotton wool buds as my airbrush nossle gets jammed when spaying paint that I haven’t thinned enough

I feel dirty!

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

Good to see many posters thinking outside the bogs

 

[Arthritic Toe]

I think the point I am trying to make is that it isn’t panic. It is rational to stock up in certain situations, including illness. We are stocking up to pre-empt the panic of having to self isolate and running out of food. If everything turns out fine then we will eat the stock of frozen and non perishable food anyway. As you say though, if you think it won’t be an issue then don’t do it. I don’t share that confidence (not 100 % anyway).

It is absolutely panic buying. You may not be running round screaming and waving your arms about, but you are panic buying.

 

[Driver8]

It is absolutely panic buying. You may not be running round screaming and waving your arms about, but you are panic buying.

And very selfish.

 

[vagabond]

It is stocking up in case of illness and self isolation. It is not a worry that the shops will run out of stuff.

I get you NB and I agree.

Some people in life play a few moves ahead. Some don’t.