Has Anyone Noticed Panic Buying

[emmie]

i went to order my online shopping and found no slots for Saturday and only one left for Sunday, which is very unusual.

[gingejbee]

All the essentials available in Waitrose this morning...red and black Camargue rice, hand-made bronze-pressed pasta, dulce de leche, shawarma paste and aonori seaweed.
So, that's us sorted for tomorrow.

[Bertrum]

Not just supermarkets that have their shelves emptied
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-northamptonshire-51771584
Once again the great British public fills you with pride

[maggiebee]

Was in Asda at lunch time for a couple of things. Shelves all well stocked and no sign of panic buying.

[vulcan42]

No sign of panic buying in my local supermarket but what I couldn't understand was there were boxes of different varieties of fresh potatoes but the shelf where tinned potatoes are located was empty. All other tinned goods shelving was well stocked, Does this virus affect shoppers ability to boil potatoes?

[bednobs]

people are probably thinking weeks and months ahead (most people do not store potatoes so they'd last that long)

[Maydup]

We've been supermarket shopping today and there was a complete lack of toilet rolls, no hand wash and very limited choice of soaps. Everything else was available, but people were buying in bulk, especially UHT milk which was flying off the shelves.

[emmie]

oh well, if this continues we will go back to wiping our bums on newspaper

[Buenchico]

Morrison's in Ipswich were out of stock of hand sanitising gel today (and the pharmacy was out of stock of face masks) but I didn't notice any big gaps on the shelves otherwise. They'd got enough loo rolls to wipe the bums of the entire Chinese army!

[Musictv2019]

But the government says there is no need for panic buying and I've only been to one shop tonight as my mummy is recovering from an operation the shop seemed fully stocked.

[tonyav]

I'm just off down the shops.
https://scontent.fman3-1.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/88144288_10220715213765410_1312500262870450176_n.jpg?_nc_cat=1&_nc_sid=8024bb&;_nc_ohc=4KvuF6HXKfkAX9skoG0&_nc_ht=scontent.fman3-1.fna&oh=b201909adf69710b7e9e2d6322c9196f&oe=5E962703

[diddlydo]

I normally go to Waitrose about 7.30 Saturday morning and there are maybe 10 cars in the car-park and a handful of people in the store - I see the same faces each week. But, today it was complete madness - car-park nearly full and store crowded with people with over-full trolleys - absolutely insane. Huge gaps on shelves where there would normally be rice, pasta, tinned stuff, cleaning products - and loo rolls! Needless to say, I bought nothing extra.