shut down

[Jim GM4DHJ ...]

Aldi and Farmfoods have been shut down at Paisley road west Glasgow due to panic buying....

[michael adams]

Yup every time Boris opens his gob and shares his latest thoughts with the Nation they all rush to the supermarkets and empty the shelves.

And he's going to be on every day !

michael adams

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[harry]

I wonder what proportion of the food will end up as landfill?

[Chris Hogg]

OMG! We're all going to die...

(is a statement of profound truth. 'But when?'... that is the question).

[spuorgelgoog]

The only thing left in Aldi this morning was vegetables and easter eggs.

Owain

[ARW]

A nice meal folowed my dessert.

[PeterC]

I watched him the other day - he was very Prime Ministerial - in a Yes, Prime Minister sort of way but with a dash of The Adams Family.

[PeterC]

I use a basket and carry the goods in a rucksac. Did break habit in Lidl and get only half as much as usual - left some for those who don't need it, poor dears.

[Jeff Layman]

Lurch or Cousin It?

[PeterC]

I could do with that - if I catch it I'm dead, almost certainly (>70, acute heart failure), but to get there that early would invlove a c8 mile walk then a bus back - I can do that but it involves a narrow footway alongside an A-road.

[PeterC]

Uncle Fester with a wig on.

[Chris B]

I prepare. You stockpile. They panic buy. ;-)

[charles]

along with all the other compromised people. Can we manage to keep 2m apart?

[Robin]

Wait until "they" loot.

[Brian Gaff (Sofa 2)]

I don't get it. I don't think in this case one can blame Boris, its people really, who rather than stockpiling stuff, should give their spare dosh to charities to help less well off people get through the next few months. I wonder if it has to do with age and experience? After all when a fair number of us were born, rationing was still in force from the last war, and we survived very bad winters , heatwaves and power cuts and tree day working weeks, and learned that in the main the authorities and companies did right by us to make sure we did not starve etc. Let us hope that this is a learning curve for the new young. I thought the world had ended in 1963, but it had not and after a while when I survived I thought, to coin a phrase from a well known song. Is that all there is to a national emergency? Brian

[Dave Plowman (News)]

Seems rather silly to me persuading the old and compromised out in rush hour so they mix with the maximum number of people?

[Roland Perry]

In message <lN7cG.650701$ [e-mail], at 17:28:48 on Tue, 17 Mar

2020, Jim GM4DHJ ... [e-mail] remarked:

I was in Aldi yesterday and there was a lady doing her shopping (quite awkwardly) with three of their baskets.

When she got to the till, having unloaded onto the belt, the cashier was dumbfunded. Nowhere for them to scan-and-chuck the items. (She had several carrier bags, but that was going to take a while).

The cashier suggested that she perhaps go outside and get a trolley as a temporary storage space, but she said she had no coins (to release one).

"I'm walking home" she said, although that wasn't especially useful as a bag-packing strategy.

[fred]

Yes but he tamed the hair for better effect

[alan_m]

If around my way you would probably find after all that effort there was very little in theses shops that would keep for any length of time. Every freezer compartment in all shops/supermarkets are empty except for things such as ice cream. Shelves are bare of tinned items except for tinned tomatoes.

I'm in the high risk group but I've also been trying to get shopping for my elderly mother and even at 8am in the morning car parks are full and in some supermarkets the queue for the till is 30 to 50 people deep. I would estimate that 80% of the shoppers yesterday early morning were pensioners.

Iceland who are offering special access times were limiting access to one in to one out with large queues of mainly elderly people waiting outside.

\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\ Both Farmfoods and Iceland that have special openings

[Steve Walker]

Surely stockpiling (to an extent) is the sensible course. If any member of a household shows symptoms, they want the whole household to self-isolate for a fortnight (seven days for a lone occupant). As it is nigh on impossible to get home delivery slots at the moment, that means that each household needs to have 14 days' supply, of whatever they need, in stock.

Once people have sufficient stocks, most will revert to normal buying patterns, just replacing what they use.

SteveW