i known some have been and are panic buying still. but now lets look at it from what wer being told. if u or anyone in your house gets cold symptons then u have to stay in house for 14 days right. what if this happends a day or two befor your normal weekly shop…? only a day of two of food left in the house and not allowed to go out for two weeks ahead of u…surly this means we have to buy a two week surply on any shopping day and be sat on a thirds week supply at any given time, so theres always a two week surply of food at any one time right. if you got babys and kids thats alot of foods to maintain the hole time. cant tell people to only buy normaly when thay might be faced with not leaving the house for two weeks at any given monment…some may seem like there panic buying when all there doing is trying to maintain a two week surply.
jrt:
i known some have been and are panic buying still. but now lets look at it from what wer being told. if u or anyone in your house gets cold symptons then u have to stay in house for 14 days right. what if this happends a day or two befor your normal weekly shop…? only a day of two of food left in the house and not allowed to go out for two weeks ahead of u…surly this means we have to buy a two week surply on any shopping day and be sat on a thirds week supply at any given time, so theres always a two week surply of food at any one time right. if you got babys and kids thats alot of foods to maintain the hole time. cant tell people to only buy normaly when thay might be faced with not leaving the house for two weeks at any given monment…some may seem like there panic buying when all there doing is trying to maintain a two week surply.
I completely agree with that. I have 4 children 3 of whom are boys all over 15. We get through a serious amount of groceries under normal circumstances. So when my average shopping bill is £160 a week and I go to buy 3 weeks worth of shopping, I dont appreciate people calling me selfish for just trying to ensure my family are provided for without risking potential death from having to go shopping unnecessarily.
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while you are looking after your family , some poor nurse or medic who just finished a 16 shift can find nothing in the shops to feed her family . Some kind of official rationing is needed to even the playing field , and soon .
It’s plain and simple. We have been told not to panic buy and there will be enough for everyone but of course we get Mr & Mrs Selfish who only care about themselves.
Now action will have to be taken as in pubs and resturants simply because people can’t follow simple rules.(a bit like on the roads!) Oh and watch the beer dissappear off the shelves in the next day or two. 
We will all be rationed (well in UK) and then at least the ones that arn’t selfish will be able to buy stuff as well. 
rigsby:
while you are looking after your family , some poor nurse or medic who just finished a 16 shift can find nothing in the shops to feed her family . Some kind of official rationing is needed to even the playing field , and soon .
+1
Rationing and maybe pop up minisupermarkets on hospital car parks.
Going to have to get creative, hopefully panic buying calm down though as stigma and social pariah tags given to hoarders
There’s panic and confusion everywhere especially on the roads, up to us all to watch out for other drivers.
Ahead of the curve slightly as panic brought vodka/■■■■ and wine two weeks ago. No one noticed they to busy with loo roll.
Currently panic buying condoms, don’t use them unless I fancy a posh hand shandy but need others not to in order for species survival. Thank me next year 
DarrenaMorris:
jrt:
i known some have been and are panic buying still. but now lets look at it from what wer being told. if u or anyone in your house gets cold symptons then u have to stay in house for 14 days right. what if this happends a day or two befor your normal weekly shop…? only a day of two of food left in the house and not allowed to go out for two weeks ahead of u…surly this means we have to buy a two week surply on any shopping day and be sat on a thirds week supply at any given time, so theres always a two week surply of food at any one time right. if you got babys and kids thats alot of foods to maintain the hole time. cant tell people to only buy normaly when thay might be faced with not leaving the house for two weeks at any given monment…some may seem like there panic buying when all there doing is trying to maintain a two week surply.I completely agree with that. I have 4 children 3 of whom are boys all over 15. We get through a serious amount of groceries under normal circumstances. So when my average shopping bill is £160 a week and I go to buy 3 weeks worth of shopping, I dont appreciate people calling me selfish for just trying to ensure my family are provided for without risking potential death from having to go shopping unnecessarily.
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People acting like they’re gonna get it … tomorrow; lol. Surely you must have some friends/relatives who could help you out with shopping while self isolating - and you/your wife would do the same for them when it’s their turn later? It’s not like they’re going to bar people’s doors any time now. Even in Italy where they have the strictest measures in place people are still allowed to go out for groceries/meds. People acting like a nuclear winter is coming
Surely there’s a difference between “Panic Buying” and “Excess Buying”…?
When I think of “Excess Buying” - I see it as a selfish act, buying up more than one needs, but leaving the stuff you deem too expensive on the shelves.
When I think of “Panic Buying” - I see people buying bits and pieces of everything, with others around them in mind as well, such as elderly parents. Price now becomes no object.
How much of this latter - have we really seen so far?
Don’t need to be buying shopping trollies full of bog roll though. We buy packs of 9 and they’ll generally last the three of us well over a month.
rigsby:
while you are looking after your family , some poor nurse or medic who just finished a 16 shift can find nothing in the shops to feed her family . Some kind of official rationing is needed to even the playing field , and soon .
Or truck driver. I’m knocking out 12 hour days and having to eat easter eggs and feed the dog daffodils
I haven’t got lots of kids so I must be entitled to more.
I don’t want to cause panic here.
The shelves have been empty for about a week now.
And will get worse as next week is pay day for monthly paid staff…
So those paid monthly no doubt will be doing there monthly shop plus more.
Not justifying panic buying, but long before this happened experts was saying that people only had 6 meals in their house before being out of food, and supermarkets have been saying for a long while the day of people doing large shops for food is on the way out. Lots just buy daily. So if people only buy a little extra it will clear the shelves, a bit like if everyone filled their car up the pumps would run dry, as a lot of people just put in a tenner or so at a time.
Isolated for 2-3 weeks OK but are they going to need 48 or more toilet rolls in that time,and live on pasta and baked beans every day.
Same goes for washing your hands whats the matter with hot soap and water just as good as the hand wash thats been going of the shelves like it was going out of fashion especially if and when they are isolated.
My local chemist only yesterday 200 bottles of hand steriliser delivered at 12.00 at 14.00 they had FOUR left.
Being Mr Considerate is one thing being Mr Selfish-Greedy is another
lolipop:
Isolated for 2-3 weeks OK but are they going to need 48 or more toilet rolls in that time,and live on pasta and baked beans every day.
Same goes for washing your hands whats the matter with hot soap and water just as good as the hand wash thats been going of the shelves like it was going out of fashion especially if and when they are isolated.
My local chemist only yesterday 200 bottles of hand steriliser delivered at 12.00 at 14.00 they had FOUR left.
Being Mr Considerate is one thing being Mr Selfish-Greedy is another
Crazy, huh…it’s like until yesterday no one had soap/handwash in their home but now suddenly everyone is like ‘Oh, I need to wash my hands? With soap? ■■■■, I haven’t used soap in a decade, better head down to the store’
believe boris is fuellin the fire and the likes of tesco are bowing to his demands faking they cant cope . but LIDL IS NOT following suit , noticed theyre doing double delivering ,a leased artic pulled out of my local one jus before midday, the shelves arent at all empty theyve fought and won . How come Morrison has no fruit n veg,not 1 bit but nobody much is panic buying it. i believe theyve been told make it all look like the countries in sheetstreet only Lidl wont cow tow , good on yer lidl!
Ive always felt the term “panic buying” was misused. To me, going to the shelves and wandering around with a trolly, buying meat, veg, toilet roll etc and then standing patiently in a queue to pay for it is just hoarding up.
Panic buying for me is when someone rushes to the shops, buys things in a blind panic without thinking and comes home with a hat rack, a bird table and a sunroof for a Rover 45
Perhaps each supermarket has a different type of customer. Our lidil Friday had fruit and veg but the booze isle was practically stripped bare and they was rationing it at the till to how much you could buy. Also with all the cafes etc shut so people not eating there, they must be getting food from somewhere else. A supermarket may be ?
I hav’nt been food shopping yet.
But did go into halfords this morning,to stock up on car care products.
Have a mate with pigs and chickens…another who works at Warburtons.
Growing season is upon us.
We’ll survive.
I see on tv news, newspaper pictures and on media posts long queues outside stores, empty shelves etc.
but in reality is this real ? Is this just hype to create panic amongst the general people ?
The stores have reserves, the RDC’s are not empty, the trucks are rolling to supply the RDC’s
along with trucks supplying the stores, the goods are there, why aren’t the public getting them ?
Crying medical staff on tv pleading that they can’t get food because of empty shelves when they finish their shifts !
The goods are there ffs, shouldn’t the supermarkets control the actual amount each and every person actually buys ?