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Originally Posted by Osem
Well I think the panic buyer brigade are largely to thank for the shortages. We were in town two days ago and saw folks in Tesco's loaded up with umpteen loaves of bread and cartons of milk as if the world was about to end. The result was that for the rest of the day the store was entirely sold out of these basics. Quite why the stores don't restrict sales in situations like this defeats me - they readily put a limit on special offers.  |
Due to the lack of snow we have not had the panic buying brigade as yet, but if this continues I expect we will get them soon enough.