Supermarket Shelves Barer By The Day

Sainsbury's yesterday had no milk, toilet roll, pasta, canned food, soap, biscuits, fresh fruit and veg. Also very low on freash meat, fish and ready meals.

Much better at M&S today.  No dried pasta or canned food. Very low on freash veg, fruit and milk but plenty of bread, ready meals, biscuits, fresh meat.

It's all the talk about making us stay in.

The fact the old and frail are standing in empty shops without food is heartbreaking. Old folks homes are struggling to get food, as lemming like morons fill their cupboards, it's making me increasingly VERY angry. It's not doing much for my faith in modern humanity any good, that's for sure.
And it's not just the UK from what I can see, it's across the world.

Given fresh food is disappearing instantly as well as long term food and it will go off, what's the betting the bins of said morons in a short period are going to be full of mouldy bread, rotten meat, black festering fruit etc, when people who could've eaten it .. couldn't?

I've not raged this much since one of the more annoying betfair 3pm crashes!!!!

Seriously though. Angry AND disappointed.

Couldn't agree more, JC.

JC

Hence this virus being the least of your problems

We are going to war and we are at the point of no return now, get ready!!!

Maybe the lemmings will realise it's going to go off and eat it all, then we'll have a low IQ correlated obesity crisis? :)

This is a war declared by the world elites on the populace

"virus" if they wanted us all dead they'd let this thing spread and not tell us

The likes of Tom Hanks and Madonna should be absolutely ashamed of themselves, they've obviously picked their side and it ain't us

How the sodding hell can staying 6 feet stop the spread of something that is airborne?

Just an obvious question, these people are sick in the head and need a bullet not help

Nothing different to normal in my local supermarket this morning apart from the empty loo roll shelf. Lower than usual footfall, only 2 tills open but no queue, plenty of fresh food of all sorts. I won't repeat where it is in case the cockneys pour down here and loot the place.

Whereabouts in the country are you, sage?

I get the feeling it's worse here in the South East.

The cockneys will do a runner if they lock London down

They'll probably aim for Manchester as they are quite close to being cockneys themselves

In his pantry,he's got the lot..

laandeners heading for their 2nd homes, not many coming to redcar in the north east,thank fooook 

They'll head to the West country, Cornwall (where I am) where all the rich fookers have holiday homes and bring the virus with them, first thing I'd do is blow up the Tamar Bridge.

duffy - I think I heard something on the radio asking people not to do this.

put red paint on all the 2nd home doors, so people can give them a swerve

Lots of empty London properties for the criminals to exploit. They are releasing them from prison now. They can't believe their luck.

I have posted my location before but in view of the possible result, I am reluctant to say exactly. West of Bristol anyway.

Just back from Tesco Express, Brayton.....
I only wanted milk and ingredients for 'Stir Fry'

All soup, and tinned vegetables, bacon products, milk, bread, eggs, most of the beer and lager, Paracetamol & Ibuprofen,
all cleared out!!!

Selfish b@st@rd Vultures!!!

I'm not a vindictive person, but I hope some of the mercenary tw@ts get a double dose of Corona!

What are they going to do with all that? like tinned stuff I can understand it had a long shelf life, but milk, bacon, bread and eggs will spoil in a few days ffs

Utter morons

auld bloke near me has a little egg business says he cant sell enough at the moment,maybe doris might be getting a peltinbg

Add to that, all tissue products and, interestingly, 'Feminine Care' products!

Something I have realised is that, when there is sod all to eat, we won't need toilet rolls!

Those with a chest freezer will freeze milk, and bread, and meat.....

My grandad use to have a veg garden with chickens and pigs, use to say he could live happily with this

No one has prepared for these events including myself

To have a grandad right now

start that garden now, you will need it...

don't think in a few months we will be eating fresh fruit and veg from tesco, you wont, get digging now..

I went shopping at around lunchtime, not wanting to associate with the lower levels of society. I am talking gutter level here.
It would seem that for the foreseeable, with, hopefully a few exceptions, my diet is to consist mainly of cheap foreign butter, hot cross buns, and potatoes. I WAS able to get some milk. And a quiche.

If you are told to self isolate for 2 weeks you need 2 weeks of food and toiletries.   If no one's going to restaurants and take aways, the demand for supermarket food increases.

It's easy to blame the public, but the supermarkets are more culpable.  They should have limited to a max of 2 items a fortnight ago.

eric, what’s a quiche?

Mar 20, 2020 -- 3:23PM, Lady Faye Verrit wrote:

Just back from Tesco Express, Brayton.....I only wanted milk and ingredients for 'Stir Fry'All soup, and tinned vegetables, bacon products, milk, bread, eggs, most of the beer and lager, Paracetamol & Ibuprofen,all cleared out!!!Selfish b@st@rd Vultures!!!I'm not a vindictive person, but I hope some of the mercenary tw@ts get a double dose of Corona!

Ditto the bottom line.

Good point about restaurants and takeaweays plus work canteens. I wonder how many of those who use those every day have any idea how much food to buy as they may never have bought anything from a food shop to take home for years.

try your local butcher or green grocer if you have one

Well injera, I give you the benefit of the doubt. Basically, it's a scrambled-egg tart.

mask,smoggie suit,ring a bellcough and splutter and you,ll find the worlds your oyster in aisles and checkout

Mar 20, 2020 -- 3:51PM, 1st time poster wrote:

mask,smoggie suit,ring a bellcough and splutter and you,ll find the worlds your oyster in aisles and checkout

Lol! Sounds like a plan.

Stand in the foyer hand hack away.

I’m praying we don’t have a nationwide outbreak of diarrhoea..

Everyone would be clearing the shelves of nasal spray.

hotel choco,pret a manage,greggs,pub etc all doing half price deals for nhs workers, can see dodgy nhs passes been sold on ebay shortly
my mate had an ambulance badge which got him a free transfer  from the course enclosure to the club at redcar years ago

I thought it was funny to read about the mercenary selfish ****s in the US a couple weeks ago who went around with a van clearing out every shop they could find in a large area of things like hand sanetizer, just stripping them bare, to then sell them on ebay at hugely inflated prices. Ebay then banned this, so have a large stockpile of stuff they can't sell .

The most irritating thing is, they didn't think they were doing anything wrong, and seem to expect sympathy!

seems like if some dont die from the virus obesity will get them seeing have much food they are buying

A can of Dettol disinfectant spray is going for £15 at 'ebay' - the normal price is only £3.

If only there was some way we could make stripping shelves a good thing?

They should make the BACKS of shelves like those bits of cardboard with peanuts stuck on them in pubs, have an interesting backdrop?

Basically: Stick topless women on the back of supermarkets stacking units. Let's turn this nightmare into a pleasurable experience!

(Next thing to be sold out would be macintosh coats).

Gawd I'd love to see the reaction of the Twitter Woke Brigade if you tried that .

Those tw@ts you are talking about JC have now donated all the sanitizers out of the goodness of their hearts, erm I mean they were being investigated for price gouging and had a miraculous change of heart. They are the dictionary definition of scum of the earth.

young 6th former on itv shouting out from window at reporter

I,m relieved glad I dontn have stress of taking my exams but gutted the prom and party,s wont be going ahead

what planet are these people,who,d employ a airhead like that. plenty mighthave been thinking it but itv must have thought they struck gold ,wonder what her parents thought

Aye. But how many others shouted totally contrary messages
The media can paint it however they choose to, just need one quote to provide "proof".

People will try to profit from this

You can be sure the corporations will so why don't people expect it of the little pr*ck on the street?

Just asked my daughter if she could try to get me some milk, on her delivery...

She just got one today, and no more delivery slots till 15th April!!!!

She just told me that 'half' her shop didn't come!

Mar 20, 2020 -- 8:01PM, SontaranStratagem wrote:

People will try to profit from this You can be sure the corporations will so why don't people expect it of the little pr*ck on the street?

Sad but true.

angoose is a liar   he went PAST two  ha ha

sage

direct them to the levels and drains

then hope for high tide and very strong westerlies

signed - ex High Ham resident

What happen to all The Civ Lib Luvvies , thought the country was full of them ,Or is it the Brexit mob that are Hoarding

If you want to know what is in this Country just have a look at the Shelfs , Just incase you never knew ..

The Empty Shelves = Enemy Within

The best thing people could do to quell the panic is to stop posting picture after picture of empty shelves on social media!

I ain't worried one bit, this whole thing is quite frankly funny and annoying, funny from an overblown overreaction from the public, the government and their handlers are proper trolling everyone with this

Absolute madness. My argument is how are they going to hide this? I mean 4,000 deaths in Italy but how far are they going to go with it before people start questioning it? even the actual health care people will be questioning it soon

UK is just bribing everyone with handouts here have some extra dole money, here have your wages and sit home

The really big red flag is its now been 2 weeks since Chethenham and still nothing

We've been dealing with this since mid Feb and still we ain't seeing the virus in big numbers

Where is the wuhan jiggle ?

"7 days incubation" its a bloody long incubation period isn't it?

Is the body getting fed up yet? waiting for this thing to "wake up", like waiting the caterpillar to turn into the butterfly

Well, I usually go out of town on Saturdays to Asda's for my weekly shop but:

Do I take the bus and risk getting coronered ?

Will there be anything on the shelves when I get there?

I don't know.

Maybe I should just go  to my local Aldi and hope for bread, hot cross buns and milk.

Mar 21, 2020 -- 12:54AM, SontaranStratagem wrote:

The really big red flag is its now been 2 weeks since Chethenham and still nothing We've been dealing with this since mid Feb and still we ain't seeing the virus in big numbers Where is the wuhan jiggle ?

One week since Cheltenham

West Brom striker Charlie Austin has urged people not to take coronavirus lightly after testing positive. The English 30-year-old suspects he contracted it at the Cheltenham Festival.

I'd take the car to avoid being in close proximity with other shoppers on the streets (it's almost inevitable in supermarkets) but still try and keep 1m distance at the checkout. I'll also try good local delicatessens for bread and upmarket supermarkets like Waitrose and M&S for other stuff; avoid Asda, Morrison and the discounters as you're bound to encounter panic-buyers (empty shelves a probability but less of it). Also, the queues will be significantly shorter.

try farmshops if got any in area or garden centres- might pay little bit more but far less queues.

Mar 21, 2020 -- 10:57AM, morpteh mackem wrote:

try farmshops if got any in area or garden centres- might pay little bit more but far less queues.

Apparently the absolute opposite is true in these parts re queues at these places.

ah right ok. my mrs just been to morrisons in morpeth, was well stocked bar toilet roll.

why don't they tag loo rolls like the razor blades, , shame the pubs have shut local junkies and munchies were selling knock off loo rolls instead of razor blades

I've got the virus and we'll need some bread soon.

I'm not locking myself away for two weeks to protect those selfish baastaaards.

My mum dove
Rd trip 80 miles
To get to farm shop
Near me
Was there at 6.30
Rd mine with eggs and all sorts by 8
Came in for cup of tea
Just ain’t doing right things by not coming in contact
How do you tell your old dear that’s spent £40 odd quid
to **** off go home see you 3-4 months !
Heart breaking this ****

We are told everything is okay in terms of food supply if everyone behaves themselves. Well they are going to so it is pointless even saying it as long as things are allowed to continue as they are.

So you have empty shelves and the shopping experience reduced to a nightmare.

If you then try to explore home shopping as I have done you find exactly the same situation. Supermarkets completely overrun and unable to cope. Most online supermarkets not even taking on new customers and those that do having no available time slots for at least three weeks.

The whole food situation is an utter shambles.

If supermarkets got the staff got the food
Going have to do 24 hr

Good luck Dr Crippen. Get better soon.

Tackling panic buying and persistent empty shelves restocking could alleviate the predicament, but no guarantee and will take time. However, a strict shopping policy introduce at shops will put an end to it - kill it at source; employ more security guards to patrol the aisles and expel panic buyers or rogue shoppers, if necessary.

Possible solution:

Define essentials.

Stack ‘essentials’ separately and off limits.

Allow people to buy non essentials.

Then have staff hand out rationed  essentials from behind barriers.

What could be the next unexpected shortage...

For instance, what could fuel a fuel shortage....did you see what I did there?

People, who hardly go anywhere, doing brim fills.....
People trailing around to find more bread, and milk, and bacon to stash in their freezers....

Injera, that is a very good suggestion but they don't yet have enough staff to restock the shelves never mind police them. I only went to a local shop in a very small town at 07.00 for newspapers (I buy for a few neighbours as well) and a steak pie to keep a 7 day supply of fresh food for my wife and I. Only 2 other customers and all shelves as normal. In view of the horror stories on here I am not divulging where I live for the duration. My experience so far is that if you get there early food shops are deserted. I am usually up by 6 so no hardship in that regard.

You’re blessed sage. Tesco’s opens here at 6 and it’s quickly rammed. Queued for an hour at the till the other day.

Farm shops and other local stores are useful, but still busy.

How long will cash machines continue in use? Infected fingers could prove fatal. And who will be willing to refill them?

Sage, in the SE, people are queuing before the doors open.

Sainsbury's are shortening their opening hours to 8am to 8pm so staff have more time to fill the shelves.

theres to many fooooking loons getting a platform to spout absolute shoite unchallenged, one on tv this morning proposing nhs workers can use supermarkets at the same times as older people

got be a fooooooooking wind up

nhs workers working 12,15 hr shifts with the most infected corona patients than going shopping with the most vulnerable in society,

some people just need to keep their fooooooking mouths shut

Amazing. Where are people getting the money and where are they putting what they buy? I have heard of another farm shop very close tome where by 11.00 today people were carting off 2 or 3 20kg bags of potatoes. Unless they are buying for several families, they can't possibly eat all of those before they shoot or go soft even if they have them for 3 meals a day. Maybe they are going to plant them all and start digging some in September when everything is back to normal!

Yes I guess the one positive is that people have the money to fill their trolleys.

Until their credit card is maxed out. Cash only might help to ration food.

I'm wondering exactly the same, Sage.

Anyway, with no racing, I will have the opportunity to get all my sire and damsire stats up to date.

the wonderful world of plastic,boom times for credit card companies in a few months time,

one of the new rules of life in last 30 years,buying something doesn't equate to been able to afford it,

It won't be long before there a lot of bargains to be had if paying cash.

@ sageform....they are most likely Fish & Chip shop owners...

Could also be care home owners etc!

Possible but I would have thought they would have wholesale suppliers at half the price.

I expect the supermarkets and the extra staff to get everything replenished.

That's my shelf fulfilling prophecy.

Very good, Crisp.

The scumbags are panic buying for resale; the corner shops have the products the supermarkets do not. Check it out for yourself. They'd sell you loads for a price eg £15 for a can of Dettol disinfectant spray on 'ebay'. And, does it work against Covid-19? If so, the government would not be buying truckloads of face masks.