I had a stange incident at the supermarket... toilet roll aisle EMPTY... I see a chap with a huge cage full of 32-packs of Cushelle heading down there and think "goddamnit I'll have to grab one of those because there is otherwise literally none" - but I don't want to be seen doing it so I skulk around for a bit then head back. None there! The cage and young feller are missing... nowhere to be seen... none on the shelves. Now this was relatively late at night and the shop was pretty empty, and there were TONNES of these huge packs... so they didn't get panic bought.

My theory is that he had a van outside and he's stolen them to sell on the black market :worry:

I saw that pic the first time, LT put your glasses on.

As long as I can get some beans, tea bags and some bread for the freezer It’ll be a good trip :love:

:joker:

D:

Have you seen how much hand sanitizer is on ebay?....D:

I don’t get the fuss with hand sanitiser, its not something I would ever thing to buy even now

It’s something I use daily, but will make do with the wipes for now.

same, I'm just using soap. I suppose if you're on public transport and out and about where you don't have easy access to a sink and soap then it's good

the TL bought 10 nan breads and 10 packets of rice and cans and cans of chicken and chilli and is now off to buy 6 bottle s of gin nd 2 more wine boxes for me

:worry:

i have Dettol large hand wipes in the car that i am using when out

we've just finished wiping all handles and light switches etc around work with those

i did that in the Post Office today and they got cross

:joker:

I have a packet in the car that I use on the steering wheel now and again

If you are stocking up because end of world is coming remember,rice is coming from China and pasta from Italy...lol

I think people might believe hand sanitizer is a magic potion. In reality, it's only 70% as effective as a 20p bar of soap and hot water. Soap and hot water (if you wash "properly", between the fingers etc.) is essentially 100% effective because coronaviruses have a protective lipid membrane. Soap breaks the lipid layer and the virus dies instantly. Sanitiser works similarly but isn't 100%.

Also people are obsessed with it having to be hand soap... shelves bare... but cheap washing up liquid will do exactly the same thing and have you seen a bare washing up liquid shelf?

However don't take LT's advice from another thread of using dettol spray on your hands. It'll dry and crack your skin and then you won't have to touch your face to catch something... it'll go right in through the gaps in your skin!

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Not going to lie, I had a good chuckle at this:

"QUICK JEAN! Stockpile painkillers!!"

https://i.imgur.com/XJgljmq.png

"...WAIT... Just the cheap ones we're not paying those prices FFS I;d rather ride it out, daylight robbery that."

https://i.imgur.com/B0y6CBa.png

dubble post

Id love to tell you the TL has not been to Food warehouse and filled the car tonight and is in the kitchen on the floor filling every cupboard space we have with tin of stuff (tomatoes, macaroni, pasta, soup)

but i cant

she is in FULL prepper mode and is ranting

i made her a knockout Gin and i am not going back in till it works

:worry:

I'm going to HOPE this just means a large gin, and not a G&T spiked liberally with rohypnol :suspect:

Things have to get really bad for people to buy Tesco brand beans obvs

Gav went shopping anyway, it was very quiet, plenty of loo roll [emoji23] they were low in beans, pasta and rice but it was all the own brand stuff they were out of. The woman at the check out said people went crazy buying stuff yesterday but seemed to have calmed down again today

I was so tempted tonight to go wild in the aisles for soup and beans but I was good ( only cos I don't get paid till 20th :laugh: )

They had to close an Aldi store in Salford because they were fighting over supplies and the police had to be called

:facepalm:

Being honest, at this poi t I would cautiously recommend filling a cupboard with a few staples because it's getting harder to find basics and it's going to get worse. People are clearing whole shelves of things like pasta sauce :umm2:.

Also go early in the morning. When supermarkets seem to be "out" of some things its often that they have stock but it just isn't on shelves. If you go early you have a much better chance of doing a "normal shop" before the shelves get cleared again.

Looks like you'll have to go 5 in the morning to see the shelves full , omg :rolleyes: .

Lucky! My local Tesco only has slots for 9 days time!

Just go to non-24h ones close to opening.

Well should be be in isolation apart from milk we could last 2 wks easily and my freezer which is not over large is stuffed to breaking point, we are both in the 'vulnerable' and i'm very worried.

My own panic buy didn't go very well, I spent £95 at Lidl but mainly bought junk and dinner for the next few days. My panic buy yielded two large gammons for the slow cooker, two bags of flour, and a couple of packs of biscuits.

:think: I might be doing this wrong.

Just stock up on the bombay bad boys

Oh and here's a laugh ~ No vodka ~ on shelves except flavoured ! prob because they were saying on GMB use can use neat vodka to make a hand sanitizer ~ bloody expensive and what a waste of good vodka.

we told you this weeks ago, what you on about :laugh: This is what you get for scoffing :hmph:

can I gently suggest anyone who runs a car fill up as well, because this might be the next panic buy

also check you petrol station shops as they have cereals and other things that are out in the main supermarkets

I didn't scoff I said it'll be like th'beast from th'east where we'll all need to panic buy because of panic buying. To be fair though, I was taken aback by the number of (sometimes bizarre) products that are vanishing.

Never underestimate people's irrationality :nono:

I swear if panic buying wine boxes starts I'm done

You only have to watch people overbuying for one day closure at Christmas to see this one coming, two weeks self isolating, lemme have that pasta, not rocket science lol