What's going to happen to food supply?

The evidence of other countries, by the way, is this kind of selfishness is here for some time. Whatever we put on the shelves customers are going to pile into.

Went into our biggest store just after lunch today and it was just carnage. Spoke to one of the ladies running the store and she was telling me about all sorts of nasty stuff from customers and went on
‘And I know a customer who only comes in on a Thursday, an old lady who lives on her own. I have just given her a ring to see if she needs anything and she said she was struggling for toilet roll. I told her I’ve put a pack aside for her in the office’
If it wasn’t for social distancing I’d have given her a big hug

Update - latest from the industry is we will have at least another 5 weeks of this nonsense (using other countries as the model)

Unintended consequences - food banks running out because there is next to no food waste and selfishness has kicked in.
 
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It's absolutely mental out there right now! Bought some loo roll from a petrol station today. Ran into some family friends at Sainsbury's. The daughter, who has kids of her own, was down to three rolls and faced going back a few hours later in the hope that a delivery had arrived. So, I gave her a few rolls from what I'd bought and the mother was stashing them under her jacket. It was like I was a dealer in the car park! The school that I work at was closed today because of this virus. It's a little unnerving but, honestly, it's getting on my wick at the moment. Nice to have the day off but what a depressing time.
 
Got our weekly delivery from Tesco today (Tuesday) one of the 3 drivers that usually on the round and he told us to book the next shop ASAP, not because there will be shortages, but because they've had large numbers of new customers wanting deliveries ASAP, pushing out the regulars.

Sure enough, earliest we can get (what woul have been next weeks shop) is 6th April, so I'll have to do an actual shop for the next two weeks.
Ah well, better ready the cattle prod
 
Restrictions will need to be put into place before long, not to protect the supply chain itself, but to teach the population that their actions are the biggest threat to the supply chain.
As long as the supply chain remains in place and at its normal levels then there should not be a bigger demand on it and people should be able to shop in their normal quantities. Trying to get people to realise that and not panic is clearly not working so it needs to be imposed.
 
None in my local Sainsburys this morning.

The lack of social distancing in supermarket queues is a concern to me. There was a guy croaking away talking to his wife on the phone a foot behind me; the family clearly self-isolating from the conversation he was having.
 
Just went and grabbed some bits from the big shops they were already emptying for the day.. it's boomers left right and centre going wild.

Shows how absolutely pointless this self isolation policy is... People everywhere just going about their shop.

Yet on the other side everyone told to self isolate from work at the first sign of an itchy ear.

All those self isolators are going straight to the shop / gym etc..
 
The smaller convenience stores are holding up better as everyone gravitates to the big boys and girls.
Might not last tho
 
I think the gvt will step in - there will be a form of rationing with the supermarkets enforcing quotas on essential items.
 
From what I have seen, the supply chain is still intact. The problem is that the stock that would normally last a supermarket a few days is being bought up instantly leaving shortages on the shelf which then leads to people descending on the next delivery when it hits the shelves.
If commonsense was in place and people just shopped as normal then things would be a lot better.
This is actually encouraging people to visit more shops than usual on the hunt for stuff that they'd normally get under one roof.

If I was in charge I'd be utilising existing apps like the Morrisons More card to regulate shoppers.
Make it one card per address and then scan either the card or the app as you enter the store and place limits on the number of every item on sale. When you get to the till and pay you could then put a time lock on the card to prevent the shopper returning on the same day. I don't know the existing logistical data modelling that is in place but it probably wouldn't take too much effort to implement something along those lines.
 
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From what I have seen, the supply chain is still intact. The problem is that the stock that would normally last a supermarket a few days is being bought up instantly leaving shortages on the shelf which then leads to people descending on the next delivery when it hits the shelves.
If commonsense was in place and people just shopped as normal then things would be a lot better.
This is actually encouraging people to visit more shops than usual on the hunt for stuff that they'd normally get under one roof.

If I was in charge I'd be utilising existing apps like the Morrisons More card to regulate shoppers.
Make it one card per address and then scan either the card or the app as you enter the store and place limits on the number of every item on sale. When you get to the till and pay you could then put a time lock on the card to prevent the shopper returning on the same day. I don't know the existing logistical data modelling that is in place but it probably wouldn't take too much effort to implement something along those lines.
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I think it would take longer than we have but a good idea for future reference.
 
big shop night for me tonight, once a week. renamed my shopping list the wish list as i will likely get fook all on it!
 
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