Panic Buying (Again)

[nailit]

Maybe its a regional thing but I see *NO* evidence of it here in Stoke.
Shops full of toilet rolls, pasta, beans etc.
Where exactly is this panic buying going on?
Someone posted a link last night to my local paper, reporting on shop shortages. All well and good except...it isn't true!

I accept that some regions are experiencing shortages (going by what other ABers are reporting)
But is it really as bad as is been made out to be, and exacerbated by sensationalist reporting?

Think that the media have a lot to answer for if people really DO go short of anything.

[10ClarionSt]

When I was a kid, if you told anyone you used toilet paper, they called you a big tart. The Manchester Evening Chronicle had many uses! But worse than that, was that awful Izal bog roll. Now that was sh 1 t!

[rowanwitch]

Or rather it was what it left smeared round your bum, useless stuff.

[rowanwitch]

I live in a sheltered housing block, I have put word out I can order in bulk online if enough people run out. Plenty available from amazon. Hand sanitizer harder to track down I wonder if mixing vodka with lubricating gel would work........

[CheekyChops]

Well I'm another Stokie and have just been to Tesco in Hanley, no toilet roll, pasta, rice, handwash etc. My local corner shop however has lots (at the moment!)

[shoota]

Whilst people in the UK are stockpiling bog rolls and pasta, good ol' boys in the USA are buying ammo and AK47 clones...

[Apc2604]

Thanks for the laugh ^^^

[Prudie]

I've heard people are making their own sanitiser by mixing surgical spirit with aloe vera gel - if you can get that.

[ummmm]

Soap and water cleans better than hand gel. some people will start thinking soon that gel will be enough...it's not.

[andy-hughes]

We have been to Sainsbury's in Stoke this morning, got there about nine-fifteen.

The checkout operator advised that there was a queue when they opened this morning, but even so, we were able to buy toilet rolls and kitchen towels.

We bought the amount we would buy anyway - when the panic buyers are stocked up, stocks will return to normal, as they start running down their extra supplies, and the rest of us continue to shop normally.

[New Judge]

I was in my local ASDA this morning. A pallet full of toilet rolls was brought out. It was stripped bare within about twenty seconds, the participants in this frenzy putting a shoal of piranahs to shame. I've never seen anything like it and I'm afraid the good citizens of this country have completely lost their marbles.

[brainiac]

It's pasta that I can't find anywhere - tried 4 supermarkets and a convenience store. Had to resort to an ancient packet of spaghetti I found at the back of the cupboard; quite nice actually :)

[Cloverjo]

I bought my son a jumbo bag of pasta when he he went to university. He brought it back with him 3 years later. I chucked it out. Should have kept it. It’d be 10 years old now, but when we’re all about to eat each other it might have been useful ;(

[andy-hughes]

We bought two large bags of pasta as well - no shortage in our Sainsburys this a.m.

[david small]

My brother in law sold his gun store recently. The new owner say that he’s just spent 1.3 million on automatic rifles and they are all sold out immediately. But he doesn’t sell toilet rolls.

[brainiac]

Ha jo, did he used to bring his washing home, too?

[Cloverjo]

Brainiac, of course he did :)