Panic Buying

bernardbresslaw said:
Surely the supermarkets would have thought of this, or do you think it might be worthwhile emailing them?
It would be great PR for the one that started doing it first.
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email them fella. Mr Mrs is on the frontline and this would be great imo, not only that but the 2 hrs she wasn’t queuing up she’d be working instead
 


Gaz said:
email them fella. Mr Mrs is on the frontline and this would be great imo, not only that but the 2 hrs she wasn’t queuing up she’d be working instead
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Should get the SMB to all email them, stick the email addresses on here.

David Potts is the CEO of Morrisons, [email protected]
CEO of Sainsburies [email protected]
ASDA Boldon took £2mill last week. At Christmas they took £1.5mill in a week - they're giving the staff a bonus.
 
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Had an argument with the Mrs earlier as we had 8 bottles of beer to go through till. Was told it was 4 only of any item in shop

Whilst I didn't follow the logic seeing as a 4 pack was 1 item and you could have 4 of them happily told her to just give me four.

Mrs was starting to twist and argue with the poor checkout girl. Told her to wind her neck in and leave the poor lass alone as she was only apply the rules she has been given

She didn't speak to me for about an hour but was worth it as she was being a dick
 
PeteFTM said:
I blame the benefits culture. Too many people happy to live their life as a comfortable moron, reproducing more morons to follow the proud family trade of scrounging whatever you can without thinking of others.

I went to Tesco after work last night after work and there was f**k all because the scratters had ransacked the place.
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tbf i'm not sure it's the scratters that are causing all this carry on. if you were on the dole surely you wouldn't be able to afford to fill the trolley up to overflowing like people are doing. imo it's those one level up from the scratters and above.
 
Keyser Soze said:
I think people need to think about the difference between ‘panic buying’ as the media love to call it and people ‘stocking up’ on essentials in case of any potential lock down?

Totally agree there are some selfish twats who are clearly hoarding more than they need, but there are plenty of people just getting prepared too and buying sensibly? We live in a rural location with a number of elderly neighbours, and this situation has brought out a great spirit in people in our area offering to get extra shopping for neighbours - previously strangers - who can’t get to the shops themselves.

So don’t always be too quick to judge everyone ?
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The supermarkets won't shut even in a lockdown. There's no reason to alter your shopping habits at all - nobody is going to starve.
 
They'll end up needing to take further measures which is pretty f***ing depressing. Why the fuck can't we just behave like civilised people ffs. For now certain items should be limited to one and it should be adults only (to stop parents coming in with their 5 kids and all getting the limit of stuff). Currently, for all they keep telling us there's plenty to go around, we're still in the position where you could go in every day for a week and never see chicken, baby formula, bread or eggs. I've hardly seen any tinned heinz things for the bairn. So appealing to people to calm the fuck down and limiting to 2 items obviously isn't working.

Trouble is, we aren't really meant to be going out to the shops every day, we're supposed to be staying indoors where possible, but then you can't find what you need when you go to the shops and even if you could you now can't really get a week's shopping in.

Personally, and I know it's probably unworkable, I wish they could recruit fuck loads of drivers and make it home delivery only. Limit the radius you can order from (since the shops can now work together), limit the number of items, and make it one delivery per house per week. Easily enforced, and unless the scratters have 5 houses it gets around the thing where people go through the till and back in the shop, or send their kids in
 
The Mrs (NHS) is currently trying to utilize Tesco's free hour for NHS staff as widely advertised.

Cant even access the car park due to the amount of dribblers there. Absolute carnage apparently.....a fair proportion will not be NHS staff imo.....wankers!
 
Guinness Guzzler said:
They'll end up needing to take further measures which is pretty f***ing depressing. Why the fuck can't we just behave like civilised people ffs. For now certain items should be limited to one and it should be adults only (to stop parents coming in with their 5 kids and all getting the limit of stuff). Currently, for all they keep telling us there's plenty to go around, we're still in the position where you could go in every day for a week and never see chicken, baby formula, bread or eggs. I've hardly seen any tinned heinz things for the bairn. So appealing to people to calm the fuck down and limiting to 2 items obviously isn't working.

Trouble is, we aren't really meant to be going out to the shops every day, we're supposed to be staying indoors where possible, but then you can't find what you need when you go to the shops and even if you could you now can't really get a week's shopping in.

Personally, and I know it's probably unworkable, I wish they could recruit fuck loads of drivers and make it home delivery only. Limit the radius you can order from (since the shops can now work together), limit the number of items, and make it one delivery per house per week. Easily enforced, and unless the scratters have 5 houses it gets around the thing where people go through the till and back in the shop, or send their kids in
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They should allow people in depending on their surname. A-B from 9-10am, C-D from 10-11am etc. Would be pretty easy to do.
 

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