What are you panic buying?

[cupid_stunt]

Update from my brother, who has been shopping for mother today, our Tesco Extra was almost empty of people, and shelves almost full.

 

[Badgers]

Your breakfast scores are going to suffer for that.

I have a couple of Heinz reserved 'out back' for important meals

 

[Badgers]

Update from my brother, who has been shopping for mother today, our Tesco Extra was almost empty of people, and shelves almost full.

If anything the low footfall in and out at Asda was not enough to keep the fresh/goods selling quick enough.

 

[ash]

Update from my brother, who has been shopping for mother today, our Tesco Extra was almost empty of people, and shelves almost full.

Sainsbury’s local the same here - even pasta

 

[WouldBe]

Shopkeeper in Sydney has an offer on to deter stockpiling of bog roll. Buy 1 pack for £3 buy any more for £84 a pack.

 

[brogdale]

Jesus; just went braved the local Sainsburys...fuck me there's some pissheads living around here...the booze shelves were properly locusted.
Disappointingly I'd gone looking for ale...ended up with 4 Abbott Ale.
Hmmm

 

[Numbers]

Ice. Cos of no freezer we’ve been bringing the Coleman ice box temp down over the last week so have had to top up every cpl of days. It’s nice and cold now so we can start storing food, but unfortunately will still need to pick up ice every few days if we are to maintain this resource.

 

[cupid_stunt]

Jesus; just went braved the local Sainsburys...fuck me there's some pissheads living around here...the booze shelves were properly locusted.
Disappointingly I'd gone looking for ale...ended up with 4 Abbott Ale.
Hmmm

TBF once the pubs were closed last Friday, the booze shelves in shops soon emptied, luckily off licences are now allowed to re-open, following the government declaring them as 'essential' yesterday.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Jesus; just went braved the local Sainsburys...fuck me there's some pissheads living around here...the booze shelves were properly locusted.
Disappointingly I'd gone looking for ale...ended up with 4 Abbott Ale.
Hmmm

In the local Coop there wasn't much beer when I was last in but plenty of wine and spirits. So all is not lost.

 

[MickiQ]

TBF once the pubs were closed last Friday, the booze shelves in shops soon emptied, luckily off licences are now allowed to re-open, following the government declaring them as 'essential' yesterday.

Even this government occasionally gets things right

 

[bimble]

ah bollocks just tried to upload a funny video from whatsapp but it doesnt work

 

[weltweit]

The staff in the village shop are now wearing dark blue plastic gloves.

Not sure if they are trying to protect us from them, or them from us, or what .. no masks though, probably can't get them, I haven't yet seen anyone in a mask round ere ..

I see Gwent is a hot spot.

 

[Lurdan]

Went to Sainsbury's Whitechapel this morning. (Sainsbury's has currently settled on opening for NHS staff only from 7.30am onwards, and on Monday Wednesday and Friday between 8.00 and 9.00am for NHS staff, the elderly, disabled and carers only. Wouldn't be surprised if this was further fine tuned however). They were managing this much better than last week. Security staff explaining what was happening to the very small number of people outside who didn't qualify. No queue outside and no big crowd of people shopping inside. Apart from tinned goods, rice and pasta most things seemed to be in stock, although toilet paper not in abundance. Aside from dry pasta I didn't actually want any of those. Got a weeks supplies, and aside from the usual mild disappointment over no-one telling me I looked too young to be elderly all was good.

(Few people on the street until I got to Whitechapel Road and far fewer than normal there. Little traffic on it as well although Commercial Road only seemed to be a little less busy than normal. Small demolition site on Commercial Road still working).

 

[andysays]

Those of you concerned with not being able to find what you want in the shops, spare a thought for those in Malaysia

Coronavirus: Malaysian men in shopping muddle amid lockdown

The Malaysian government's decision to allow only "the head of the family" to leave the house to shop, as part of measures to suppress the Covid-19 coronavirus outbreak, has had unintended consequences.

Some men are unexpectedly finding themselves responsible for the grocery shopping and suddenly having to distinguish between bewildering varieties of vegetables, spices and herbs.

 

[girasol]

Went to Sainsbury's yesterday (Balham) at 1pm after having been going and finding absolutely nothing to buy the last couple of times. Queued for 10 minutes - when I got in I was surprised at how busy it was, very hard to keep distance at all times. I tried my best but failed on occasion... No pasta/ricel, no toilet paper, no hand wash, no canned goods of any use (apart from 4 cans of minestrone soup, which I took), but I managed to get the majority of what I needed. Lots of fruit and veg! Walked past the booze section and it looked depleted. I don't really feel like drinking at all though, so not an issue for me. I'd really love a roll up, I have one now and then, socially, but that's not going to happen again for a while. I keep dreaming about it.

While queuing up to pay, this woman just walked past dry coughing, without covering her mouth! I looked at her in disbelief and muttered "what are you doing?". She walked past and continued coughing, it was disconcerting. She looked to be in her mid-50s. I'd imagine this is going to happen a lot, people with mental health issues doing this sort of thing? Was she faking it? Or was she actually sick and decided to come out and infect as many people as she could?

My original plan was to try different supermarkets until I got everything I needed, but I wasn't prepared to queue up again. The experience was a bit draining and I just wanted to go home!

Found a box of latex gloves in a cupboarb, which I bought ages ago so I could fix my bike without getting greasy hands, and wore them to the supermarket. They're transparent as well, so I felt well special everyone else is wearing blue ones...

 

[Anju]

So, we haven't stockpiled anything as there are plenty of shops locally and between the 4 of us it's possible to get what we need with a bit of effort and planning. Thought I would buy some toilet roll from eBay as I had a £5 voucher that was about to expire. £13 for 16 rolls worked out at 50 pence a roll.

Woke up all excited this morning and the postman arrived nice and early.

At least they're not reconditioned.

 

[Orang Utan]

Those of you concerned with not being able to find what you want in the shops, spare a thought for those in Malaysia

Coronavirus: Malaysian men in shopping muddle amid lockdown

I saw a bewildered fella in the hair products aisle on his phone showing whoever was back home the dazzling array of choice to be made that he was clearly struggling with

 

[Proper Tidy]

We're going to have bacon butties soon, can't remember last time I had one, have looked forward to this since yesterday, but realised I have no brown sauce cos oh has red sauce and didn't panic buy any. Am quietly furious. Fucking ruined.

 

[blairsh]

Need to do a booze run today. Fucking dreading it.

 

[Orang Utan]

Went to Waitrose yesterday and it went like a dream - big queue snaking round the car park with everyone two metres apart. No scrum. Just one security guard managing the queue, but no one needed telling. Everyone just knew what to do. Took about half an hour to get in and once I was in it was heavenly - loads of space, didn't feel I had to hurry round, and cos I was limited to £30 (was using someone else's card), I took time to think about what was needed and didn't make any foolish impulse purchases. I wish all shopping trips were like this tbh - every cloud etc
(no major shortages either - no whole chickens and none of a certain kind of bin liner. but full shelves everywhere else (though curiously the ice cream cabinets were looking a little scarce - comfort eating at home I guess)

 

[Doodler]

Went looking for flour but it was all gone. Next to the empty flour section were lots of packets of cake mix: chocolate, ginger, orange, vanilla flavours. No idea why people have left them alone but I got one of the chocolate mix made by the scholarly Dr Oetker.

 

[weltweit]

Might have to brave Morrisons as I want fruit I can make smoothies from and yogurt for the same reason. My village shop doesn't do it unfortunately. Or perhaps I will pass today and just do without.

 

[planetgeli]

Right, well that was pretty bad. I thought 'stuff Tescos it'll be full' so went to local co-op. Queued for 30 mins to get in, not because of hordes but because of social distancing, which they're correctly taking seriously.

But the shop was empty, worse than Poland in the 70s. You got a little pep talk about what you were allowed as you stood by the door (eg, 3 units - meaning bottles - of alcohol...so you could buy 3 beers OR 3 litres of Gin ) then you went in...to empty shelves. Honestly, there was nothing in there. This is getting critical.

 

[andysays]

I saw a bewildered fella in the hair products aisle on his phone showing whoever was back home the dazzling array of choice to be made that he was clearly struggling with

It's important not to let personal grooming standards slip at a time like this though, isn't it...

 

[maomao]

It's important not to let personal grooming standards slip at a time like this though, isn't it...

Tbh a leisurely shower and shave before the rest of the family get up has been one of my favourite things about being locked down. I rarely have time to shave while working.

 

[Orang Utan]

I'm dressing and grooming for work on Monday even though I won't be seen wfh

 

[maomao]

I'm dressing and grooming for work on Monday even though I won't be seen wfh

On my two days actual wfh I was dressed in pyjamas and rags but now I've been furloughed I'd feel like I was just letting it all go to shit if I didn't get dressed properly in the morning (jeans and hoodie not a suit obviously).

 

[Epona]

We were out of veg and fruit (we hadn't been able to get any frozen veg prior to the lockdown), so went to Iceland and one of the independent grocers yesterday. Not many people out, queues with spaces marked on the pavement outside every shop, very few people in each shop at a time, shelves well stocked with pretty much everything.

Got some frozen veg, fresh courgettes, peppers, carrots, onions, a swede, parsnips, and a sack of potatoes. A couple of £1 frozen pizzas, quorn sausages, tuna steaks, a chicken, a pack of chicken thighs, and some minced beef (Iceland's 3 for £8 meat deal was back on, I was hoping for some pork medallions but they were sold out), milk, cheese, eggs (YESSSS finally!!!!), beer, cider, and a big bottle of vodka which is going to be for my lockdown birthday next week, oh joy.

 

[klang]

I would panic buy formula for my baby if I could. Went to two places where I usually buy this morning, both were out. Local corner shop sells it for double. I'm not running low yet but it's something I will need at some point, and I will need plenty of it.

 

[William of Walworth]

Today we drove to a medium sized, but not huge, out-of-town Tescos in Pontardawe (8 miles from Swansea) for a relatively large Saturday shop.
They'd marked the queuing area outside with painted lines, and all ten or so people in the queue were observing them.
The friendly woman outside was strongly, but nicely, discouraging couples both going in, so I retreated to sit in the van (as requested by festivaldeb too! ).
Inside, deb said, stocks of almost everything were good, and distancing inside the store was as well-observed as outside.

Encouraging stuff -- the above is well stricter than with any other shop we've seen in the past week.