Really distressing

Duffman

Duffman

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Popped into Asda to buy my sandwich today. Was taken aback by the number of old folk wandering around with empty trolleys and baskets looking for food to stock up. Heard one little old lady say to her husband ‘how about a tin of pilchards’ ‘I don’t like pilchards ‘ he replied to which she said ‘well we have to buy what we can get today because we don’t know when we can get back out and all the normal stuffs gone’ ’. Many empty shelves of the stuff old folk normally pop out a couple of time’s a week to buy - mainly to get themselves a bit of company and out of the house for an hour. This whole thing must be really scary for the old folks who don’t have anyone to help - please support anything happening in your area.
 
We will have to start rationing sooner rather than later, not because the supply chain is breaking, but because it is under attack from selfish people buying more than they need.
It will be cyclical, shelf's are are empty, shelves get restocked as normal, people panic and empty the shelves again as infinitum.
 
That's how it should be bear and shoppers should respect that limit and not kick off at staff.

I am going to Aldi this afternoon, I'll report back.
 
In Aldi Billingham some bloke in front of me had about 10 tins of Sardines in his trolley and he got told he could only have 4 and he kicked off about it, and at the end of his shop he went back in and headed for the tins isle presumably to get another 4 tins to take to a different till.
 
If I were a progressive politician I'd be formulating a plan based in the way this pandemic is peeling away the facade of our financial systems, our social systems and the way people behave to one another.

In the past it has all been ideological arguments, we are now in a new period where evidence will be there to help persuade people that there is a better way than to be slaves to money.
 
Duffman said:
Popped into Asda to buy my sandwich today. Was taken aback by the number of old folk wandering around with empty trolleys and baskets looking for food to stock up. Heard one little old lady say to her husband ‘how about a tin of pilchards’ ‘I don’t like pilchards ‘ he replied to which she said ‘well we have to buy what we can get today because we don’t know when we can get back out and all the normal stuffs gone’ ’. Many empty shelves of the stuff old folk normally pop out a couple of time’s a week to buy - mainly to get themselves a bit of company and out of the house for an hour. This whole thing must be really scary for the old folks who don’t have anyone to help - please support anything happening in your area.
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Don't worry all these old people will be able to sit at home and order online because I'm sure they all have the internet. Most cant even work a TV remote never mind online shopping. But don't worry many might not be a problem to society soon.
Its a disgrace the information is giving out to people especially older people. As said above many shop a couple of times a week. I find no matter how much you buy on your "big shop" there is always something you need.
 
I know this post is mainly about food, but the daft thing is... we actually make and export more toilet paper than we use - it's literally the last thing we'd run out of
 
It’s gone mental. Let’s put it into perspective, a few people have the virus and even fewer at risk people have died from it.

people hoarding food etc is really despicable. I was in Asda last night, young people buying 2-3 big packs of loo roll, shopping trolleys rammed, queues at the tills five deep. God help us if it does spread significantly.

bit of common sense, look after the at risk groups, self isolate if you have any symptoms etc.

I don’t understand why we are trashing economies and destabilising the world over a flu bug.

I think this whole thing is being blown out of all proportion and is just a reflection of the modern world. Things can’t just be bad anymore, they have to be the worst thing EVER.
 
dooderooni said:
If I were a progressive politician I'd be formulating a plan based in the way this pandemic is peeling away the facade of our financial systems, our social systems and the way people behave to one another.

In the past it has all been ideological arguments, we are now in a new period where evidence will be there to help persuade people that there is a better way than to be slaves to money.
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Exactly this - it demonstrates how our 'society' is so fragile because it is built on money and profit.
 
Did my shop this morning in abroard land and it was all very sensible. No queues all items available. It was a bit busy on Saturday but you can't just stock up and hoard every day. It will and I hope fizzle out when people realise the stuff they emptied the shop of yesterday is fully replenished the next day

Oh and I prefer to wash my bottom rather than paper as it does a better job. I hope you all have a hose pipe connection next to the toilet like I do.
 
Grocery market has been tracking behind the previous year, in terms of sales, for almost 3 years.
This week they will be tracking ahead by circa 60% - 70%
Unprecedented
 
Well, I am back from Aldi in Norton and can report that the shelves are very well stocked, except for loo roll which has sold out obviously, and customers are indeed limited to 4 of any one item.
The Co-op are out of loo rolls too and are limiting customers to 2 of any one item.
One thing I did notice is that the concept of social distancing isn't getting much traction. People still seem to want to be in your back pocket in any queue, even though I deliberately left a good distance between me and the person in front as a bit of a visual clue.
 
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