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What are you panic buying?

Anyway imo stocking up to ensure your household can see through 2 - 4 weeks is entirely sensible, stocking up beyond that or when you know you are taking from your neighbours and community etc is antisocial and selfish individualism and most people probably know where the line is, even those who are ignoring it. Profiteers should be hanged from motorway bridges.
 
Getting worse here. Co-op stripped entirely of milk, first time I've seen this. And of course, they've started on the alcohol. Which isn't surprising.

Not long to the food riots.

Stocking up for 4 weeks in not reasonable or sensible. People doing it know they are depriving others and don't care. It's the ultimate test/proof of selfish consumer culture individualism. A real first world problem/creation.
 
planetgeli said:
Getting worse here. Co-op stripped entirely of milk, first time I've seen this. And of course, they've started on the alcohol. Which isn't surprising.

Not long to the food riots.

Stocking up for 4 weeks in not reasonable or sensible. People doing it know they are depriving others and don't care. It's the ultimate test/proof of selfish consumer culture individualism. A real first world problem/creation.
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Well taking what you need while not depriving others can be a difficult thing to measure and there obviously are people who don't give a fuck (selfish individualism) but it clearly is rational/sensible to get basic goods now when there is a) clear issues in supply chain and b) a likelihood most households will need to quarantine at some point.
 
It's really worrying that those of us trying to shop for neighbours/relies who are self-isolating are coming back with a tiny fraction of what's being requested.

The retail corps will have to start/ be told to start producing 'emergency bags' of basics that can be picked up by volunteers (preferably outside the fucking germ-ridden sheds). This would I suppose ultimately rely on some sort of rationing administration...but this is soon going to go critical.:mad:
 
We’ve got a Waitrose very close to us. Mr Looby said it was really busy and emptying but nowhere near as bad as the big superstores. The only bread left was cheap I white so we got two (one for the freezer) and no skimmed milk but he managed to get crisps. 👍
It’s fresh food I worry about most, fresh veg like peppers which we shop for daily.
 
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farmerbarleymow said:
If you're in a high risk group it's justified, if you are to avoid interactions with other people.
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This is not what is happening.

Unless all those high risk people just happen to have Volvo estates and massive fuck off freezers while, coincidentally, the pensioners I see with nowt in their trolleys are just happily living day to day.

Fuck the hoarders.
 
According to the gf’s family they are having no food panic buying issues in Portugal, shops are well stocked.

Got me thinking a bit as they tend to have smaller stores and more independent shops there, kind of a couple of decades behind this country (in a good kind of way mostly).

Anyhow, thinking about this, when I had my first supermarket job at Sainsbury’s in the late 80s they had a big warehouse bit on site, mostly under the store (strange beasts lurked there that were spoken of in hushed voices). Any stock running low on the shelves could be called up and replenished almost immediately, so empty shelves were not a common sight. Deliveries from suppliers came direct to the store, usually by the pallet load, so a large quantity of stock (and value) held on site.

Around the late 80s there was a change in how supermarkets operated, moving to the RDC (Regional Distribution Centre) model, where suppliers delivered to one large warehouse for each region, and within the warehouse order pickers would go up and down the aisles picking out a case or two of each item to go into cages or on pallets ready to be delivered to stores, whereby the cages would come straight off the lorry and onto the shop floor to be placed on the shelves. All very clever stuff, the warehouse aisles were stocked in the reverse order of how items are on the supermarket shelves, so the shelf stacker would have the goods ready to unload more or less in the right order. This meant no stock held on site in most supermarkets, so warehouse space could be turned into retail space or just not rented, less dead stock held on site which also kept the bean counters happy - all this ‘just in time delivery’ means they buy stuff off suppliers just as they need to use it.

What this also means is that now if there is a sudden rush on an item there are no means to immediately replace an item from stock on site until the next delivery in a day or two, hence the empty shelves, the sight of which then incentivises more panic buying. I wonder if other countries with a more old-fashioned approach to stock might be managing better?
 
A friend on Facebook appealing for a specific brand of baby milk (can be difficult for small babies to change brand as their bodies can have trouble adapting). They’ve had it removed from their online shopping order as the supermarkets are out. Meanwhile it’s being sold on eBay at a premium. Absolute cunts out there.
 
Proper Tidy said:
Well taking what you need while not depriving others can be a difficult thing to measure and there obviously are people who don't give a fuck (selfish individualism) but it clearly is rational/sensible to get basic goods now when there is a) clear issues in supply chain and b) a likelihood most households will need to quarantine at some point.
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The only issue in the supply chain is because scum are stockpiling and the system can't keep up. Just buy what you fucking need and the system will cope. :mad:
 
With the school shut down we’re not bothering keeping the kitchens running as they’re only expecting about 30 pupils in (rather than the usual 400). They’re doing pack lunches made at another site. If worse comes I think the kitchen is pretty well stocked and I have a key. Pretty sure there’s about 20 litres of milk in the infant school fridge too, I might liberate it for the masses if stuff is still stupid on Monday (can’t have it myself).
 
Proper Tidy said:
But where is the supply going to come from. Are the factories open as usual, the wholesale markets, the borders. Come on now.
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Can't remember whether it was on here or on the news but British manufacturers of bog rolls have 84 million in their warehouses. The government is not shutting down manufacturing of essentials like bog roll and food. The government is not stopping delivery drivers doing their jobs. In-fact they have relaxed the rules on delivery hours and drivers hours. Anyone stockpiling is a CUNT of the highest order. :mad:
 
Proper Tidy said:
But where is the supply going to come from. Are the factories open as usual, the wholesale markets, the borders. Come on now.
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Wasn't there some massive stockpiling following Brexit?

I drooped by to say the panic appears to be over. After yesterdays nightmare we took a walk to the farmers market, saw the huge cues and walked away.
Stopped by in local supermarket earlier. There were not that many people in there and they queues to pay were minimal. Most of the shelves were quite well stocked.
Fortunatly we were in there at the right time and secured some bog roll. I spied someone with some, made my way to the correct shelves and there were about
10 packs there, being guarded :thumbs:
There are queues in many stores as entry is being strictly monitored but other than that, I think people are shopped out.
Official. Panic over.
 
hash tag said:
Wasn't there some massive stockpiling following Brexit?

I drooped by to say the panic appears to be over. After yesterdays nightmare we took a walk to the farmers market, saw the huge cues and walked away.
Stopped by in local supermarket earlier. There were not that many people in there and they queues to pay were minimal. Most of the shelves were quite well stocked.
Fortunatly we were in there at the right time and secured some bog roll. I spied someone with some, made my way to the correct shelves and there were about
10 packs there, being guarded :thumbs:
There are queues in many stores as entry is being strictly monitored but other than that, I think people are shopped out.
Official. Panic over.
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Unless they are waiting for payday so they can start again. :(
 
GailL said:
I bought 3 weeks a go a huge bottle of Aloe Vera gel and rubbing alcohol, so making my hand sanitizer. I am stocking up red wine now, lol
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Aloe vera gel is notoriously difficult to mix with alcohol. You need glycerine. This stuff.
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Keep the gel though, you can use that on your skin as it is.
 
WouldBe said:
Can't remember whether it was on here or on the news but British manufacturers of bog rolls have 84 million in their warehouses. The government is not shutting down manufacturing of essentials like bog roll and food. The government is not stopping delivery drivers doing their jobs. In-fact they have relaxed the rules on delivery hours and drivers hours. Anyone stockpiling is a CUNT of the highest order. :mad:
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Right so all goods and services are unaffected, everything is domestically produced, border restrictions don't apply to consumer goods so no effect. Get a grip.
 
Chilli.s said:
I read somewhere about a survival dish made with oats layered with smoked fish in a barrel. I think it was for arctic conditions as they eat it uncooked just out of the frozen barrel and warmed up to room temp. Yum yum.
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Yes the Hi-line Barrel Diet, I heard Waitrose are interested
 
Proper Tidy said:
Right so all goods and services are unaffected, everything is domestically produced, border restrictions don't apply to consumer goods so no effect. Get a grip.
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I didn't say everything would be totally unaffected. As for border problems, even in countries that are in complete lockdown they are still letting goods across the border although they are being delayed due to health checks on the drivers.

Why are you being such an apologist for the stockpiling cunts?

Anyone who is hoarding and claims to be a socialist is an even bigger cunt. :mad:
 
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