[Ammi]

Supermarkets were left with empty shelves today as panic buyers stocked up on supplies before snow swept across the UK.

Bread, milk and other essentials were all in short supply across southern Wales after the Met Office released a rare 'red' warning predicting extreme weather.

Staff described the hours of panic buying as "a crazy stampede" as stores had to put up signs apologising for running out of stock.

One Sainsbury's worker at the store in Pontypridd, said: "It was like there was a famine on, people were panicking, it was a crazy stampede of people just picking up anything they could and rushing out with it.

"I couldn't believe what I was seeing, we had never had any kind of rush like that before.

"When the rush was over there weren't even any crumpets left, we had to make some signs to apologise to people."

Shoppers who arrived after 8pm found themselves unable to get any fresh food in Tesco in Cardiff or Asda and Sainsbury's in Pontypridd.

Shopper Steve Chatterley, who took these amazing pictures, said: "I couldn't believe what I was seeing

"We went to three different supermarkets just to try and find some milk for a cup of tea, but there was none anywhere.

"The shops were still very busy at eight when I arrived there, it's normally empty at that time of night.

"The staff were in shock, they said they'd never seen anything like it before."

Tesco staff had to put up makeshift signs after the rush came to an end apologising for the lack of stock.

One read: "Due to unexpected demand we are out of stock of bread. Sorry for an inconvenience caused".



..this is what my friends have been telling me all week, even though I didn't listen to them because we've barely even had any snow here....only the promise of snow that never came....

...so now, I can just hope I manage to feed my starving family.....

[arista]

Yes I posted the photos on the Snow thread
it happens in Wales alot

[Omah]

This is just a weekend of winter weather, what if there was a war .....

What a waste .....

[thesheriff443]

people that do this are the saddest people on the planet.

[Me. I Am Salman]

lmao idiots

[Marc]

It's so ridiculous.. a lot of families probably have more than enough food as it is. Whereas the people who DO need it, won't have anything left to buy!

Also what's the fascination in buying milk and bread?... is that all people eat?!

Ammi, you may well be the nicest member an' all, but don't be duplicating pics from different threads. Especially where Arista is concerned.

[Cherie]

Originally Posted by Ammi

Supermarkets were left with empty shelves today as panic buyers stocked up on supplies before snow swept across the UK.

Bread, milk and other essentials were all in short supply across southern Wales after the Met Office released a rare 'red' warning predicting extreme weather.

Staff described the hours of panic buying as "a crazy stampede" as stores had to put up signs apologising for running out of stock.

One Sainsbury's worker at the store in Pontypridd, said: "It was like there was a famine on, people were panicking, it was a crazy stampede of people just picking up anything they could and rushing out with it.

"I couldn't believe what I was seeing, we had never had any kind of rush like that before.

"When the rush was over there weren't even any crumpets left, we had to make some signs to apologise to people."
Shoppers who arrived after 8pm found themselves unable to get any fresh food in Tesco in Cardiff or Asda and Sainsbury's in Pontypridd.

Shopper Steve Chatterley, who took these amazing pictures, said: "I couldn't believe what I was seeing

"We went to three different supermarkets just to try and find some milk for a cup of tea, but there was none anywhere.

"The shops were still very busy at eight when I arrived there, it's normally empty at that time of night.

"The staff were in shock, they said they'd never seen anything like it before."

Tesco staff had to put up makeshift signs after the rush came to an end apologising for the lack of stock.

One read: "Due to unexpected demand we are out of stock of bread. Sorry for an inconvenience caused".



..this is what my friends have been telling me all week, even though I didn't listen to them because we've barely even had any snow here....only the promise of snow that never came....

...so now, I can just hope I manage to feed my starving family.....

the crumpets should sue after that comment.

[Jake.]

Morons

[cobdo]

The loops near me are all queueing at the petrol station panic buying.....dunno why cos they wont be going anywhere in this weather .

[Kizzy]

Off to tesco to stock up on horse burgers..

[armand.kay]

Its snow....

[Nedusa]

Most of this food will be thrown out, knee jerk reactions resulting in people buying way more food than they need are only adding to the problem of global food wastage. A couple of days of snow hardly constitutes the day after tomorrow scenario.

God help us if we ever did get violently extreme weather..!!!

[Ammi]

Originally Posted by arista

Yes I posted the photos on the Snow thread
it happens in Wales alot

..it's not just Wales Arista..some of the shelves were pretty bare here...I managed to get a few provisions though, so my family won't starve for the next few days....

[Marcus.]

my house dose that

[Benjamin]

Every year the UK does this, yet every year the UK panics for no reason. Places like Canada and Russia have much more snow each year and still manage to survive. It's like the UK has never had a winter before...

[arista]

Originally Posted by Ben

Every year the UK does this, yet every year the UK panics for no reason. Places like Canada and Russia have much more snow each year and still manage to survive. It's like the UK has never had a winter before...

But in Wales they were Right to
as the Power was Cut.


We do not have Russian type Snow
only in 1963 (shown on BBC2 tonight)

[Saph]

I love how everyone goes into a panic when it snows