It’s Everyone For Themselves.

[david small]

Waitrose this lunchtime. Bread all gone, milk all gone, fruit and vegetables all gone, meat section nearly all gone. Selfish grabbers. Not a thought for other less mobile folk. It sickens me, the downright sod you brigade, like locusts. Not even locals. Just touring the shops and stripping them. Selfish greed. Nauseated by them. Humans disgust me, I’m ashamed to be one of them. Rant over.

[fiction-factory]

Were you just passing?

[piggynose]

Luckily this isnt the case in Madrid.

[jno]

I was at Waitrose a couple of days ago and only a few veg shelves were empty.

[pixie374]

Me too... I haven't stocked up, just tried to get what I want, as usual. But because so much is unavailable, I now will have to go around different shops instead. I am working with very vulnerable people every day, and the more I put myself at risk, the more i put them at risk. Can't order online, as usual. Plus, no tampons or pads to be found... it makes me wonder how many vulnerable over 70s, are really needing to hoard these?

[bookbinder]

I was in the local Tesco this morning. There was no flour, no toilet rolls, no milk, no beer. Who would panic buy beer?

[piggynose]

All our supermarkets are well stocked, inc tons of bog roll.

[pixie374]

We had to go to a pharmacy for a client today, for pads and movicol. They were only letting in 4 people at a time, who had to stand on crosses. Fair enough, but no pads, one box of movicol left... you would think with the lack of loo roll, that it would be imodium flying off the shelves.

[Arksided]

I've had a common cold (I hope)this week so not being able to venture to the shop... but still have enough supplies for another week.

[jno]

bookbinder, anyone who was shut out of their pub? Which is most of the nation, all in one evening. A pretty predictable surge, I would have thought.

[gingejbee]

Of course it's everyone for themselves...it's human nature.
Self-preservation, survival of the fittest

[KARL]

piggynose, I know of nowhere else (than the UK, and in the USA it is guns and ammo being hoarded) where this performance is on these days.

[teacake44]

Well Boris said that supermarkets are always geared up for anything like this happening, may be that's when I realised there would be a problem.

[jno]

supermarkets aren't geared up for this sort of thing. As sp1814 pointed out on another thread, their system is "just in time", with everything carefully planned to arrive at the last second and spend minimum time on the shelves. They can't cope with even predictable changes in shopping habits, let alone ones imposed overnight.

[piggynose]

Karl, can you explain why?

[237SJ]

Not just the UK and US - it's happening in Australia too

[pixie374]

Not necessarily, ginge. Many of us have others to look after first.

[teacake44]

And also , as daft as it sounds the self stackers are having to look and read every label on the self so able to put the item in the right place, normally they just have to look for the product that's already there, May be a sat-nav would help :0)

[ToraToraTora]

err indoors has just been to ASDA and they are looking pretty well stocked.

[teacake44]

^ shelf stackers.

[ladybirder]

David I agree. When is it going to stop?