Stock piling

We've just come back from Consum in Benejuzer never seen it so busy not one trolley left we never gave a thought about people stock piling and couldn't understand!!

Just been to Carrefour, empty shelves, you would think the world was going to end soon. People stock piling loo rolls, no rice or pasta, not much fresh meat.

The stockpiling isn’t for the food available it us people getting in provisions so they don’t have to go out and risk infection. If it is decreed that shops close, people stay at hone are you prepared? Do you have the basics to live for a week?

Ginger wrote:The stockpiling isn’t for the food available it us people getting in provisions so they don’t have to go out and risk infection. If it is decreed that shops close, people stay at hone are you prepared? Do you have the basics to live for a week?

If someone needs 10 x 12 packs of toilet rolls to last them a week then they have a more serious problem than a virus.
(That's what a bloke in Aldi had in a trolley this afternoon).

marcliff wrote:

Ginger wrote:The stockpiling isn’t for the food available it us people getting in provisions so they don’t have to go out and risk infection. If it is decreed that shops close, people stay at hone are you prepared? Do you have the basics to live for a week?

If someone needs 10 x 12 packs of toilet rolls to last them a week then they have a more serious problem than a virus.
(That's what a bloke in Aldi had in a trolley this afternoon).

I did say provisions not non essentials. Like many I didn’t understand lockdown but now realise it is to get people to stay home in an endeavour not to spread this virus.

To stop a few morons hoovering up all the stock they should put a limit on how many can be purchased.

p.s. Consum was devoid of any toilet rolls today but I only wanted bread and a cake

Ginger wrote: I did say provisions not non essentials. Like many I didn’t understand lockdown but now realise it is to get people to stay home in an endeavour not to spread this virus.

Ah, you mean the real essentials.
Guinness = check
John Smiths = check
Amstel = check
Crate of vino colapso = check

Well that's me for 2 weeks.

All paid for by those nice people who left their cash by the bins. I told you I'd dispose of it carefully.

marcliff wrote:

Ginger wrote: I did say provisions not non essentials. Like many I didn’t understand lockdown but now realise it is to get people to stay home in an endeavour not to spread this virus.

Ah, you mean the real essentials.
Guinness = check
John Smiths = check
Amstel = check
Crate of vino colapso = check

Well that's me for 2 weeks.


All paid for by those nice people who left their cash by the bins. I told you I'd dispose of it carefully.

I love it Marcliff!! It's along the same lines as the conversation I've just had with my daughter in the UK who told me about the lockdown. I told her I'll have to go out tomorrow to stockpile my essentials of brandy, coke zero and Cointreau - I've got plenty of food and loo rolls

My wife and I have been in Valencia for a few days - came back early this afternoon, because they've cancelled the Fallas, only to hear on the news that Spain declared a "State of Alert" this afternoon. I went out just to do a 'normal' shop and couldn't even get a chicken! Fortunately, one of the powers the government has under these emergency conditions is to introduce rationing - but perhaps that's why people have been out this afternoon stripping the shops bare. I understand that everything will close from midnight tonight, except pharmacies and food shops - assuming they have anything left on their shelves......