Panic buying hits DKH Sainsburys

[JohnL]

Morrisons fully stocked - and rather quiet this morning. Hand wash still there but no proper sanitiser (someone asked and the manager said sold out in 10 minutes)

I think people are buying to resell on ebay at a profit.

[Blackcurrant]

Washing or sanitising hands is good but ideally people need to avoid breathing air contaminated by coughs. It's a respiratory infection and reaches the lungs primarily by inhalation of airborne droplets. Avoiding that requires social distancing, which is what China is doing on a massive scale with great success.

[Peckhamnearbe]

Yes thank you for saying this. Since the appalling MSM media I have switched to alternative media. Favorites include OFF-Guardian where?s there?s been three insightful articles on this hysteria. Latest missive today:

https://off-guardian.org/2020/03/08/keep-it-simple-and-question-propaganda-technology-and-coronavirus/

This has become a country of sheeples.

[Penguin68]

I suspect that (other than simple panic) loo rolls may be being bought up because they are the cheapest source of disposable tissue - with calls for constant hand-washing; paper towels in wash rooms are in short supply, and cloth towels clearly not a good choice for drying.

[natty01295]

It affects the lungs Not the Bum

[JohnL]

I suspect hand sanitizer (the dry type not the washing type) is being brought by chancers to sell on ebay etc.

[micromacromonkey]

Peckhamnearbe Wrote:

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> Yes thank you for saying this. Since the appalling

> MSM media I have switched to alternative media.

> Favorites include OFF-Guardian where?s there?s

> been three insightful articles on this hysteria.

> Latest missive today:

>

> https://off-guardian.org/2020/03/08/keep-it-simple

> -and-question-propaganda-technology-and-coronaviru

> s/

>

> This has become a country of sheeples.

er... that site is full-on tinfoil hat craziness. Avoid.

[Bony Fido]

This problem will sort itself out because there will most likely be food shortages soon, therefore the eat less/crap less relationship will equal reducing need for bog rolls...

[dbboy]

Are local suppliers (butchers, deli's, bakers, hardware etc. stores) experiencing any knock on effects up turn/down turn of corona virus, likewise eateries/restaurants?

[sally buying]

This morning teabags and pasta empty.

Plenty of toilet rolls

[JohnL]

sally buying Wrote:

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> This morning teabags and pasta empty.

>

> Plenty of toilet rolls

The Sun has told it's readers not to stockpile and then added a list, helpfully called "Food Stockpile Checklist"

[Penguin68]

If you are anticipating the possibility of 14 days self isolating having sufficient food in for you and whoever is with you doesn't seem unreasonable. There is a very fine line here between prudence and panic.

[JohnL]

Actually maybe the deliveries will need to temporarily go back to plastic bags - I invite the guy in normally and we unpack from the box together - but not if I'm in isolation.

[Tractorlad]

There should be no reason to panic buy pasta. This is down to just a fusilli people!

[Siduhe]

At least in the case of DKH, I suspect part of it is bulk buying, part of it due to their approach to stock management.

I was in there on Friday looking for a small packet of self-raising flour (as we'd run out). The flour aisle had been cleared out of bread flower and plain flour (bulk buying, I'm guessing) but there were still lots of the specialist flours left, sauce flour etc. However, going past a part empty shelf seemed to make people more likely to grab flour for themselves (just in case!) with the result that in the half an hour I was in there, it seemed to have been cleared entirely.

I asked a member of staff if they had flour out the back - "yes loads" was the reply - but he also said they wouldn't be stocking that aisle until much later in the evening, so it would have stayed empty all day. I did get the small pack of flour I was after and there was no issue with the stock according to Sainbo's but a picture of the shelves would have made it look like there was some massive flour crisis in ED.

[dbboy]

Last Thursday, no pasta was available on the shelves of Asda and Tesco on the Old Kent Road and ditto Sainsbo DKH, so not just one store. Panic buying was clearly well under way, plus Asda had a special on large bags of pasta, so that may well have contributed.

Loo rolls had not been decimated as much at that time. Listening to LBC over the weekend, their was a repetitive recount by listeners that supermarkets were being cleared out of such items. One caller admitted to having bought 200 bottles of anti bacterial hand wash, total madness.

What does seem to be apparent is that shelves are replenished over night.

I was glad to read that both Tesco and Asda had put measures in place to regulate the amount of certain goods customers could buy. Perhaps Morrison's and Sainsbury's can also restrict purchases.

[exdulwicher]

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Last Thursday, no pasta was available on the shelves of Asda and Tesco on the Old Kent Road and ditto Sainsbo DKH, so not just one store.

People are being urged not to panic buy pasta based on the actions of a fusilli individuals.

;-)

[Tractorlad]

exdulwicher Wrote:

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> Last Thursday, no pasta was available on the

> shelves of Asda and Tesco on the Old Kent Road and

> ditto Sainsbo DKH, so not just one store.

>

> People are being urged not to panic buy pasta

> based on the actions of a fusilli individuals.

>

> ;-)

Penne for your thoughts!

[rupert james]

Perhaps people have woken up to the fact that when Southwark bans all cars and closes all roads you wont be able to go shopping anywhere.

[worldwiser]

Yesterday afternoon there was zero toilet roll, zero pasta, zero beer, zero flour and zero Maldon salt 🤣 Only that cornish rubbish left. What will we do.

[exdulwicher]

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Penne for your thoughts!

It's getting pasta joke now. ;-)

[seenbeen]

Bony Fido Wrote:

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> This problem will sort itself out because there

> will most likely be food shortages soon, therefore

> the eat less/crap less relationship will equal

> reducing need for bog rolls...

The baked beans were almost gone at 4.30 this afternoon- hence the need for more loo rolls!

[ED Bird]

Plenty of paper & pocket tissues in M&S...

... though I probably shouldn't have said that.

[Sue]

dbboy Wrote:

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> I was glad to read that both Tesco and Asda had

> put measures in place to regulate the amount of

> certain goods customers could buy.

Yes and it's really annoying.

I just did an online Tesco order, my first one since before Christmas.

They appear to have limited the maximum number of canned tomatoes you can buy to five. Same for passata. Same for bloody canned chickpeas.

I am not panic buying, I am trying to replenish my larder! I use this stuff all the time! FFS!

[heleny]

No pasta, rice or tinned tomatoes on Friday but then it's hard to know with DKH Sainsburys whether it's people panic buying or just their standard sporadic approach to stock management. At least us locals are used to visiting this store and seeing empty shelves!