Panic buying in shops due to weather

[Arthurgray50@blu]

It has been said on the news, that there is a start of panic buying by the public due to the bad weather.

In my local store of Asda, there are members of the public, that are buying up bread, milk and sugar etc in large amounts, has anybody else noticed this.

[Stuart]

Yes. Every time the weather is in the slightest bit bad. There seems to be a mass paranoia that is fed by the media's almost continual stories of how everything is falling apart.

[Hom3r]

My local asda was quiter than usual this Sat.

[superbiatch]

Yes i have! Went to Tesco before for the usual weekly shop to find not a blinkin loaf left on the shelf!! I've not got a slice in the house, just don't understand why people are not able to buy as they go instead of being selfish about it. Obviously there are people who really can't get to the shops when the weather is bad, but for the majority of us there is no need

[danielf]

Originally Posted by Hom3r

My local asda was quiter than usual this Sat.

Apparently, there's lots of people engaging in panic-staying-at-home seeing the weather has been ***** for a while now...

[Raistlin]

We went out on Friday and bought a few extra bits just to see us through until the middle of next week.

We would normally have bought those bits tomorrow, but we bought them early because we weren't sure that we'd be able to get to the shops tomorrow.

We haven't 'stocked up', we haven't bought in bulk, we've just bought exactly what we think we'll need for the few days ahead.

[Arthurgray50@blu]

I can never understand, if stores are seeing this, why they can't stop people going mad, l tell you something, as anyone tried by more than two packets of pain killers or more than four bottles of beer.

My wife got stopped buying three packets of painkillers and also told you would have to separate twelve bottles of beer and pay for six at a time, and that was Asda.

[jamiefrost]

I think the pain killer thing is driven by the goverment, complete waste of time as there is nothing to stop going back stright away and buying more.

JJ

[superbiatch]

Originally Posted by jamiefrost

I think the pain killer thing is driven by the goverment, complete waste of time as there is nothing to stop going back stright away and buying more.

JJ

Yup and 16 could do most people quite a lot of damage anyway, probably finish some peeps off!

[Gary L]

I know about the 2 packets of painkillers, but never experienced the beer thing.

Well I got to my local Co-op where there were 5 loaves of bread left..I took only one because there were others who wanted bread as well but blow me someone after me took two.

Luckily the local independent baker is still baking bread.Let us hope he still has enough flour and yeast to keep going if it snows again.

[Jimmy-J]

I noticed the same thing in Morrissons, the only bread available was Hovis Multi Grain. No skimmed milk and no veg.

People have gone bananas, and there were none of them too.

[danielf]

Originally Posted by jamiefrost

I think the pain killer thing is driven by the goverment, complete waste of time as there is nothing to stop going back stright away and buying more.

JJ

The reasoning behind this is that many suicides are spur of the moment decisions. Very few people go out to buy pain killers with a view to committing suicide. It's having them in the house in sufficient quantities at a vulnerable time that can push people over the edge. Limiting the amount you can buy at one time is supposed to decrease the stock people normally keep. Not to prevent planned suicides (the minority), but to prevent suicides that happen because the means just happen to be there.

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Originally Posted by Arthurgray50@blu

and also told you would have to separate twelve bottles of beer and pay for six at a time, and that was Asda.

That sounds like rollocks to me. Do they really want you to break up that multipack of lager that's on their shelves?

Originally Posted by danielf

The reasoning behind this is that many suicides are spur of the moment decisions. Very few people go out to buy pain killers with a view to committing suicide. It's having them in the house in sufficient quantities at a vulnerable time that can push people over the edge. Limiting the amount you can buy at one time is supposed to decrease the stock people normally keep. Not to prevent planned suicides (the minority), but to prevent suicides that happen because the means just happen to be there.

Well I understand the thinking but I still think it was a ploy for the pharmaceuticals to charge over the odds for the product.In one fell swoop they trebled the price overnight by getting that law passed. I used to save sooo much by buying Paracetamol a 100 at a time.Those bubble strips are so wasteful with all the packaging too.hardly environmentally friendly.

I'm so sick of this nannyfied country..I'm not allowed to think for myself or to run my life the way I like..because I might just 'hurt' myself.

Anyway I think panic buying in this case might be laid squarely at the governments feet this time.They appointed the agency that oversees the gritting and salting whom the AA say have allowed the levels to lag drastically

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8450176.stm

AA spokesman Paul Watters told the BBC said councils had reduced stocks by 250,000 tonnes during the past 10 years.

No one would need to panic buy if there were buses running and they could drive out from their housing estates.Instead we are having to take perilous walks on frozen compacted ice at the risk of broken limbs to get to our nearest shops which for many of us are the centralised high street.All the corner shops have disappeared around here(mine is now a frigging craft and wool shop and so useless in this present crisis).

[bopdude]

And it's threads like this that increase the paranoia, there are plenty of shops, supermarkets, garages selling every item of day to day needs, it's only a bit of snow ffs, it's not like we haven't seen it / dealt with it before