Weekly shop report: Situation normal with the exception of no bog roll, no hand gel and Italian ham on BOGOF!
Watched two ladies in Booths yesterday with a massive conundrum...they wanted tinned chopped tomatoes, but only the obviously Italian branded Napolina ones remained. They decided it was better to do without. 🙂 I reached passed them and picked up two. I didn't need them at all, but thought it rather amusing to see the expression on their faces.
Not happy.
Today I have a moderate hangover, the kind that will be fine after the cure all of a bottle of full fat coke, a bacon and egg sarny and 2 paracetamol.
You can see where this is going can’t you? Nowhere has any.
How am I meant to pretend to function without this?
Livid.
Just been for a bit shop as needed some chicken. Shelves full of everything but Paracetamol which is great as I ran out the other day, still I’ll put up with the neck pains so others can have stock just in case. It was also extremely busy for this time of day, I guess the media panic has got all the pensioners out buying.
Did a shop at local lidl. Shelves pretty much full aside from tinned tomatoes cheap version, ibuprofen, hand gel. Got the last bottle of Jura malt at £19
im not going to panic buy, im just waiting for the lock down when everything can be looted for free.
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im not going to panic buy, im just waiting for the lock down when everything can be looted for free.
55" tv?😁
Mrs Scape is teacher, so I decided I'd get in some more storecupboard stuff to sit out the almost inevitable self-isolation. I visited three supermarkets as I was looking for strong flour for baking. Can't find any anywhere! I did notice one thing though. The first one I visited was an Aldi in a less affluent area. There were no apparent shortages. Plenty of pasta, soaps and hand wash, and plenty of toilet paper. No strong flour, but then no shelf with a space where I'd have expected to see it, so thought they don't stock it. Next Also was slightly bigger, in a more affluent catchment. There there was very little bar soap, but a reasonable amount of pumped hand wash, restricted to two per customer. Both had paracetamol, the second place had less toilet paper or kitchen rolls.
Wondering g whether the nearby Morrison's had strong bread flour I made a third visit. Stark contrast. No pasta, no rice, no bog roll, no oats, no bread four or dried yeast, no paracetamol, no liquid soaps, but I did manage to bag a couple of Dove bars which Mrs Scape likes.
Does the panic-buying urge depend on the means to stock up above the normal weekly shop? Are people in the more affluent areas better able to equip themselves for self-isolation?
No. I already have a zombie apocalypse stash of supplies in the loft. Water purifiers, dehydrated food, heating/cooking fuel, sleeping and camping equipment.
Bog roll is the least of my concerns
Litres of IPA
Bought 5 litres of it in Morrisons this evening. Well at a quid a bottle for a decent 4.5% ale I couldn't say no.
@scapegoat - was store 1 in Milnsbridge?
I went to Morrisons in Elland tonight. Not only have all the things mentioned in panic buying above been sold out, they've decided to rearrange the store in the middle of all the chaos. Madness!
My wife's car was broken into outside our house yesterday when we got up. They had a really good rifle through it but left mine alone.
I'm not going to conclude that it was the motive, however the only thing stolen was a small bottle of hand sanitizer which was on display in a cubby hole near the gear stick....
Are people in the more affluent areas better able to equip themselves for self-isolation?
I made a similar observation - Sainsbury's in West Hampstead stripped bare, Tesco in Uxbridge still reasonably well stocked.
I’m wondering about starting a couple more panic buying threads. I don’t need one now, but you never know.
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I think the supermarket delivery services will be put under quite a bit of pressure if a lot of people suddenly decide or get told to head home and stay there. Whether they will be able to provide a reliable service, particularly if their pickers/drivers also head home, is an interesting question.
Interestingly we did our usual delivery order last night and usually can pick any delivery slot we like across the weekend. No delivery slots available at all Friday, saturday and Sunday and also no click and collect available Friday or Saturday. usual items ordered and out of stock was toilet roll and sugar.
I knew that we were in full blown panic mode when I was in the home baking aisle - the ready-to-mix bread packets were all gone. The ones that you buy for Xmas just in case but throw away 3 years later when you realise that you're never going to make that multi-seed tomato loaf no matter how bored you are
I went to my local (giant) Tesco last night, wtf? Firstly I figured I'd leave it until 8pm when it's usually pretty quiet (like I normally do), nope it was rammed with people with over-flowing trolleys. And not only was the bog roll aisle empty (thankfully I didn't need any), so was the pasta and rice aisle (apart from the flavoured microwave packets and the giant bags). Most of the tinned food staples were gone or low to.
I didn't actually see people obviously panic-buying to hoard though, most trolleys (although full) seemed to have a usual mix of things. So I'm wondering if it's just more that people are buying a little bit extra 'just in case' rather than panic-buying as those we're entering a zombie apocalypse
I work for ASDA in Sheffield, if you want hand gel, toilet roll, paracetamol etc arrive at the store after 22.15 hours and you find most shelves full.
I'm often in our local big 24hr ASDA between around 22:00 (with the wee one in a sling) and they've just blocking the aisles with crates of stuff! I think I'd have to be there around 03:00 to find the shelves refilled.
dried macaroni for the kids in case we can’t get any for next weeks packed-lunches
Forget the virus, you give your kids macoroni for their packed lunch?????
Buying trolley loads of loo roll is bonkers, but I have ensured we have food/medicine to self-isolate my family for up to 3 weeks.
Yep, that is exactly what I did back in January. Calm, planned buying of non perishable human food and animal foods and not a bit of panic to any of it. Probably turn out as unnecessary but who knows how the next few months will turn out.
At the moment the hope is for people to do the right thing so good luck with that...
On Wednesday I had to go around my local supermarkets looking for strong bread flour for my daughter's DT cookery class.
Waitrose - none.
Sainsbury's - none but found some yeast
Tesco - got one of the last two packets on the shelf.
I am surprised that this item is obviously being panic bought - anyone see anything in the media recommending that panic-buyerists add this to their bog roll and tablets shopping list?
Forget the virus, you give your kids macoroni for their packed lunch?????
Yeah - a food flask full of pasta (we use macaroni as it is smaller and fits nicely in the flask compared to other pasta) tossed in a little bit of butter to stop it from congealing and a separate little box with either grated cheese or tuna. Makes a change from sandwiches every day for the kiddli-winks.
Going to panic buy 1,000 litres of gasoil today as the tank has run dry and we have no heating. Whoops.
I bought a pack of bog roll on the way home from work last night, the wife had already ordered some with the Tesco order. We're putting them up on Ebay later and then paying off the mortgage.
I did also buy a pack of ibuprofen as well because my shoulder was a bit sore from sleeping funny. I could feel the dirty looks as I went to the till so I hid them in a pile of jazz mags just to be safe.
We've probably got enough food in for a couple of weeks - that's normal - it would be a case of 'freezer' specials. The loo roll panic is crazy - there is just none anywhere. Got enough in for a week.
Yay! The wife called into Superdrug this and just as they opened a supply of paracetamol. She got a box and before she left the shop they’d sold out. 😂
I get panic buying drugs that may help alleviate some of the discomfort felt if you actually caught the virus but I am still struggling with the toilet paper thing.
I was in Aldi at the weekend and they even had toilet paper stacked up in the Isle of Dreams!
I may panic buy the drugs that make 2 weeks of daytime television bearable.
I get panic buying drugs that may help alleviate some of the discomfort felt if you actually caught the virus but I am still struggling with the toilet paper thing.
They may but the bodies way of fighting a virus is to raise your temperature, by taken to paracetamol or ibuprofen unnecessarily you’ll lower it.
They may but the bodies way of fighting a virus is to raise your temperature, by taken to paracetamol or ibuprofen unnecessarily you’ll lower it.
But NHS advice is to manage flu-symptoms with either so people are just following their advice.
Luckily I bought some more bog roll before the covonia stuff kicked off. 16 rolls of Andrex QUilted plushness.
So 1 dump a day, maybe 8 slices per visit - think I'll be okay for a couple of months.
If supplies run short I'll just take some Imodium to reduce the frequency.
But NHS advice is to manage flu-symptoms with either so people are just following their advice
Yup I know.
Going to panic buy 1,000 litres of gasoil today as the tank has run dry and we have no heating.
It's normally my job to let the tank run out before I buy more!! I ordered 2500L this week for delivery next week so I'll have enough for about 18 months - which is really annoying as I've just learnt how to get the pump bleeding procedure down from 30 mins to about 2 mins!!
Luckily I bought some more bog roll before the covonia stuff kicked off.
As an aside from your typo, I bet the makers of Covonia cough mixture are doing OK at the moment.
Went to do the usual weekly shop this afternoon, very busy in Sainsbury’s with no eggs left and weirdly only scrag ends of cat food and toothpaste. The pasta aisle also appeared to have been looted. More worryingly was the fact that there was only one polish sweet cheese roll left! As we are approaching peak zombie apocalypse I bought some unnecessary Guinness, two porter cakes and a couple of bottles of Pouilly Fume
Went to Aldi earlier and expected it to have bee decimated, I was disappointed.
Loads of paracetamol, and loads of loo roll too.
Masses of dry food and pasta sauces.
Pleasingly, also loads of chorizo and bottles of Corona.
No bog roll, hand sanitizer, hand soap or pasta in tesco again today so I bought pizza and cake.
In light of recent of panic buying, UK supermarkets have now introduced purchase limits.
Asda: 2 hand sanitisers, 24 toilet rolls max.
Tesco: 1 Hand sanitiser, 18 toilet rolls & 2kg rice.
Co-op: 12 rolls toilet paper, 1kg rice.
Aldi: 2 Trumpets, 1 diving suit & a MIG welder.
Tonic water is selling out here! There’s a rumour going round that it’s a cure for coronavirus!
Unless it's being transmitted by mosquitoes that's rather doubtful (thank god, the stuff tastes like arse)
Just finished the weekly at Tesco. Looks like a bomb's hit it, lots of shell-shocked shelf-stackers wandering around trying to refill the aisles.
No bog roll, no kitchen roll, no pasta.
Tonic water is selling out here! There’s a rumour going round that it’s a cure for coronavirus!
Add enough gin and you may not care for a few hours so sort of works.
As well as loo toll, wipes, pasta etc, my local Sainsbury's has run out of tonic water.
This is now a major emergency, what am I going to mix with my gin?
