Panic buying toilet roll....

[Saracen999]

On a similar theme, I've been in hospital the last couple of days and it turns out some (damn the swearing rule) ... miscreant .... cleaned the hospital out of stores of loo roll, hand sanitiser, hand wipes and one or two other similar.

I challenge you lot to come up with a lower life form that that.

Let's have an exception to the death penalty for him/her/them for that one. Selfiish ..... arghhh ..... 'misreant'.

[Mr. Q]

Wow, that is pretty depressing.

[ik9000]

Scum. Utter scum.

I was in the local Tesco on Thursday night. I witnessed store staff handing over unopened boxes of produce (eg wholesaler distribution boxes of pasta) that was meant to be going onto the empty shelves, but instead going directly to their friend/family member/whoever it was to take out of the store. I'm not saying they didn't pay for it, but they can't have put it through the till in the usual manner as there was no accessible barcode to scan and the box wasn't opened. How are the old folk round here who rely on that shop (being the only one nearby and accessible for them) supposed to get what they need if the store staff are shipping it off before even putting in onto the shelves? Makes me

[Jonj1611]

On a lighter note :



And found in Tesco bathroom :-

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Unsurprisingly, there are apparently people on Facebook trying to sell 9-packs of toilet rolls, which they bought for around £5, for £20.

I don't use Facebook, I just heard this from someone who does.

[Jonj1611]

Same with dust masks, some clowns are advertising them as dust masks that prevent flu(they don't). I needed some for some work I am doing on the car to sort out some rust underneath etc, can't get any now, not for any reasonable money so will have to put that job off until I can get some, only need like 4 basic ones!

[Jonj1611]

People are really going all out to get toilet rolls

[cheesemp]

Didn't get a chance to stock up for a while as my wife has been unwell. Ordered a sensible shop from Asda and half of it has been subbed. Thankfully enough to survive on but going to run out of toilet roll soon! I'm hoping the limits supermarkets are imposing will help or this is going to go beyond silly.

[Jonj1611]

Tesco 5 packs makes no sense. You could buy 5 x 4 pack and end up with 20 rolls or 5 x 24 and end up with 120. Should have limited the bigger packs to 2 per person or something

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[Jonj1611]

This is good to see : https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-51906604

The world working together toward a common goal, I wonder if it will be like that when the aliens invade

[The Hand]

I was at sainbury's with my 70 year old dad at 7am this morning and all the uht milk sold out in 10 mins. Pasta, flour and yeast were gone within 20 minutes... We never got any. Opted for oat milk instead and tinned potatoes and spam... it's beginning to feel like a war time scenario, even though Lincolnshire at the moment only has 4 confirmed cases out of a population of 755K: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-51768274

Edit: Dad managed to buy some flour and yeast at the local coop lol. Kind of ironic a smaller shop is better stocked.

[Jonj1611]

I went to Tesco last night and it was like a war zone. I had an email from Sainsbury saying there is plenty for everyone, I replied with have you seen your stores lately lol. Obviously it didn't go through but still.

[stevie lee]

just got back from lidl. pretty much everything was 'limit 2 per customer'. except the bread and milk.

got the last 2 packs of chicken drumsticks, rest of the cabinet was empty. there was plenty of the thin sliced sandwich meat in various flavours, seemed to be the only well stocked part of the store. plenty of bottled water too. about 1 box of pasta left.
didnt see any toilet/kitchen rolls and there was 1 pack of neurofen in the entire medicine section.

store was packed, but everyone just seemed to be topping up on the little things, like a tub of margarine, sausage rolls, panda shaped dog rope toy. that kinda thing. they mustve done the panic buying over the weekend.
just saw 1 person with a trolley full of greek yoghurt.

[TooNice]

I wonder if supermarkets would consider now a "good time". Some business are definitely suffering, but it seems that people are more worried about running out of toilet paper than catching the virus from their attempt to buy / hoard toilet paper ^_^;

[sammyc]

I was at sainbury's with my 70 year old dad at 7am this morning* and all the uht milk sold out in 10 mins. Pasta, flour and yeast were gone within 20 minutes... We never got any. Opted for oat milk instead and tinned potatoes and spam... it's beginning to feel like a war time scenario, even though Lincolnshire at the moment only has 4 confirmed cases out of a population of 755K: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-51768274

Edit: Dad managed to buy some flour and yeast at the local coop lol. Kind of ironic a smaller shop is better stocked.

Will be a bit tricky shopping online because at least in store you can see what there isn't, & swerve towards the tinned potatoes - I'm either going to have to add in all sorts of backup products & risk getting all of them, or put a long list of subs which staff won't thank you for; either may result in a well weird combo. People are awful. Still, glad we're not letting ourselves down abroad, or anything.

*Did you see the special Iceland older people's opening hour thing? possibly at store's discretion but worth keeping an eye on https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...lder-customers