My Local Asda Today

[Bobbisox1]

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What on Earth is wrong with people, this is just lunacy !

[jno]

what's missing, is that the sanitiser department? Anyway, if the government's telling people to wash their hands more often, I suppose everyone will need more.

[Cloverjo]

I know! In Tesco today a woman was buying 3 huge multipacks of loo roll.

[Cloverjo]

Normal soap will do.

[naomi24]

Barmy.

[Bobbisox1]

No Jno, this was paracetamol etc

[ToraToraTora]

basically 98% of the population is thick.

[Mamyalynne]

....and the others can't spell.

[ToraToraTora]

QED!

[jno]

oh, right, thanks Bobbi. But these things are cumulative. If you do like to keep some painkillers in the house, as I expect most people do, and you find them hard to come by, it makes sense to buy more than usual if you do find some. The alternative is the risk that next time you have a headache you won't have anything to take for it.

[Bobbisox1]

I always have multiple 29p boxes in but I did have well before this panic buying broke

[Buenchico]

I agree that it's lunacy but I'm wondering if part of the reason that all of those shelves is empty is that the store manager has the same rule that the guy in the main Ipswich Asda has. It's that there nust be no 'cages' on the shop floor until the evening. i.e. even though the warehouse is full of stock, no empty shelves can be refilled until staff are allowed to wheel cages out later in the day.

As I tend to shop around teatime it can drive me crazy. On encountering an empty shelf I have to find an Asda employee to ask if they've got any more stock in the warehouse. I then have to wait several minutes while he/she goes to look and hopefully brings me what I want. I'll then find another empty shelf and have to go through the same process all over again. On one occasion I had just 7 items on my shopping list but I had to ask staff 4 times to get stock from the warehouse for me.

Asda's shelf restocking policy is as mad as the people who've been stripping stuff from their shelves!

[Cloverjo]

I thought you could only buy two packets of off-the-shelf painkillers at a time.

[Bobbisox1]

Come to think of it Chris, you’re right, I’ve never seen a cage of stock anytime during daylight hours

[Bobbisox1]

There’s must of been a lot of people getting them clover because it is 2x 16 of them , that’s the law ( only not in the £ shop :0)

[SIRandyraven]

The panic buying is madness.
I went into Sainsbury today to buy 250 toilet rolls , 150 bars of soap and 30KG of pasta and the shelves were empty.

[retrocop]

Makes you proud to be British....not.

[Bobbisox1]

Pastas another commodity flying off the shelves, I mean Why?

[TheDevil]

"What on Earth is wrong with people"

People are easily manipulated by the media. The media says panic so people do. If it's the weather (hot or cold) or some global epidemic people in the UK will go fill their cupboards and fridges so they know they can batten the hatches and try avoid.

My local Tesco is flourishing with produce so is my local Spa.

Might say more about Asda shoppers panic buying than anything else.

[retrocop]

some old Spanish gentleman was being followed around the shops by a news crew last night. He said he was vulnerable and wore gloves and took a taxi to go shopping.He went to Sainsbury and pulled one of two liquid hand soaps off the shelf. He then explained virtuously how he had left the other one for another person to purchase.How selfless and thoughtful.
The next shot he was in another shop looking for more hand cleanser and was bemoaning the fact the shelves were bare.
Why virtue signal when he had got one in any case? :-)

[Apc2604]

My husband has just been to the pharmacy to buy me paracetamol which is a necessity for me on a four hourly basis. I buy it because its cheap and to save the NHS. He was only allowed one pack. I will now have to get it on prescription. Fortunately my GP knows my situation.