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Originally Posted by LukeB

Then panic buying shouldn’t be encouraged, that makes people go crazy and ott and think of those who will be left out without stuff? We should be sensible with this not selfish.

Originally Posted by Niamh.

I agree

In general I agree too and if you look back to spring, I'm very much against needless panic buying. However the Dover situation means - according to some inside scoops I have but shall not disclose - there will almost certainly be genuine shortages this time (alongside shelves emptying as soon as people realise).

I haven't and wouldn't say stuff like this on social media and encourage a supermarket stampede, hence only sharing with my nearest 'n' dearest here on TiBB .

Originally Posted by bitontheslide

there might be a temporary shortage of a couple of days, but economics start coming into it too. The french exporting to the UK wont be impressed at no money coming in. The drivers wont be impressed at being stuck in a carpark over Christmas It will be resolved in a couple of days

Indeed but put it this way - a 2-day backlog of trucks at Dover will not take 2 further days to clear... it's a massive bottleneck under the best of circumstances and we're looking at a double-whammy of Brexit confusion combined with tens of thousands of trucks that will still be in the country well beyond the time that they were expecting. It's a storm in a T-ruck.