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What are you panic buying?

I saw on old skool shoplifter casually walking through the tills at Sainsbury's last week, just carrying three bottles of JD, complete with security tags. Nonchalant was the only word for him. He strolled through an empty till alley and walked to the door, then was off like a startled gazelle on the Serengeti.
Unfortunately for him, the bouncer on that door set off after him like a ravenous cheetah. Shame there wasn't an Olympic scout at our Sainsbury's that day, really. Both of them would have been snapped up.
As I was leaving, I had to walk round the broken bottles and he was being escorted back inside, remonstrating vociferously, with both men stinking of Jack Daniels.
 
Epona said:
Managed to get a bag of spuds.

This only counts as panic buying because I was panicking after hearing tales of potato shortages - it doesn't count as stockpiling because I had 0 spuds and now have 2.5kg of spuds, which is a normal weekly routine purchase.
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oh no. I can cope with corona virus chaos but not a loss of chips
 
Small Asda by me has all the 20p veg. Doesn't seem any need to panic buy as have no space in the tiny freezer and it'll only go off.
 
platinumsage said:
My father (who never drove) had a method for this. He'd take as much as he could carry e.g. two bags and walk with them for a hundred yards, then put them down on the pavement, return and get the other two bags, walk past the bags he'd left a further hundred yards, put those down and go back and get the other two, repeated for the mile and half journey. He'd do this with our holiday luggage for visiting grandparents when we were too poor to get a taxi to the station and I was too small to carry anything. For shopping it's probably easier to just do two trips in a day.
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I indirectly knew somebody years ago who used to walk to the supermarket each week to do the weekly shop, heaving the whole lot back while her husband sat watching World of Sport (which dates the anecdote). They had a car but she didn't drive. One week she just snapped and left it all on a roundabout, got back and told him to get the fuck out and pick it up. I'd like to think it was a turning point in their marriage or that she ultimately booted him out, but real life rarely turns out that well.
 
i have an email from tescos, it has a bunch of stuff about how they are keeping us safe and how 'we have plenty of food available to suit your needs at Christmas' and then it says
  • We have some temporary purchasing limits on certain essential products to help all customers have access to these products."
This system of limiting how many of whatever it is one person can buy how is that supposed to work, I'm fine with one small milk because its just me and the cat but what if you have 5 kids and live with your inlaws do you just have to go to the shop constantly.
 
My local Tesco never takes the tags/stickers off the boxes of wine. The alarm always goes off, the security guys eyes widen, I roll my eyes and wave at the checkout staff who wave back. Me and the security guard laugh and he ushers me out the store with a smile.
 
bimble said:
i have an email from tescos, it has a bunch of stuff about how they are keeping us safe and how 'we have plenty of food available to suit your needs at Christmas' and then it says
  • We have some temporary purchasing limits on certain essential products to help all customers have access to these products."
This system of limiting how many of whatever it is one person can buy how is that supposed to work, I'm fine with one small milk because its just me and the cat but what if you have 5 kids and live with your inlaws do you just have to go to the shop constantly.
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Back in the first lockdown there was 1 item that we needed in a higher than average quantity due to health issues, so we would just queue separately and buy a small pack (the allowed quantity) each - if we had done that to overstock on items that would have been deeply unfair of course, but short of trying to get a prescription for said item there was one point during the lockdown where we couldn't have got through it without doing that. It was a one off and not a regular thing. We only bought what we knew we would need for the next week, we weren't filling vans with it.
 
Planning to 'panic' buy basics this evening -- orange juice, milk, bread, eggs, and most importantly!, bananas and tangerines :eek:

Will report back .... but Sainsbury's have been fine so far .... :hmm:
 
nogojones said:
This is my big concern. If Randy doesn't get his chosen food, I'll never hear the end of it
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Oh I need to add wet cat food to the shopping list! We do have enough for the next week but I'd rather stock up - we can live on dried pasta, rice, pulses, tins, and stuff lurking in the freezer if there are shortages - the cats cannot - I have enough dry food for 3 months but if they don't get the wet food half of their diet they might eat us instead :D
 
Badgers said:
This 'panic' thread is just a mundane shopping list :D

The UK can't even be bothered to panic these days.
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I am kind of done with panic, at least about this sort of thing. I suffer from anxiety, there is other stuff I panic about. Shopping doesn't really come into it though (except when we were short of loo roll during last lockdown, see above)
 
Badgers said:
My local Tesco never takes the tags/stickers off the boxes of wine. The alarm always goes off, the security guys eyes widen, I roll my eyes and wave at the checkout staff who wave back. Me and the security guard laugh and he ushers me out the store with a smile.
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Whilst the four bottles of JD and side of salmon down your trousers make another triumphant escape.
 
Having discovered that quarantine rules are that you ABSOLUTELY MUST NOT leave your home during isolation, I decided to do a little panic buy in Portsmouth when I got off the ferry. Spuds, parsnips, whisky, sprouts....
 
Badgers said:
My local Tesco never takes the tags/stickers off the boxes of wine. The alarm always goes off, the security guys eyes widen, I roll my eyes and wave at the checkout staff who wave back. Me and the security guard laugh and he ushers me out the store with a smile.
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One of the reasons I like going to the co-op near me is that nobody has to come to the scab till to sign me off for booze. They have a remote control at the main till. I don't know why more supermarkets don't have them. Then if it's tagged, I just pass the bottle over to whoever is at the main till on the way out and they untag it. Much quicker and safer than someone having to traipse over and enter a PIN.
 
FridgeMagnet said:
One of the reasons I like going to the co-op near me is that nobody has to come to the scab till to sign me off for booze. They have a remote control at the main till. I don't know why more supermarkets don't have them. Then if it's tagged, I just pass the bottle over to whoever is at the main till on the way out and they untag it. Much quicker and safer than someone having to traipse over and enter a PIN.
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Doing it remotely seems much easier - it's odd that others haven't adopted this, and staff have to scan barcodes and whatever.
 
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