As per lockdown, your small local independent shops are your friend here. You might have to take a small hit on the pricing, but that will be more than offset by the satisfaction of swerving the stockpilers
Supermarkets could do with locking away the trollies for the time being. Might focus people's thoughts on what they actually need to buy, rather than see how much they can stuff in a trolley
Much as you wouldn't normally wish a freezer failure on anybody...
On the plus side, last man standing on the shelves are the fresh and/or healthy foodstuffs. Zombie hordes still turning their noses up at those for now :lol:
Reckon the thing to do is shop small, local and often. Most corner shops/convenience stores are fully laden, having their own supply chains and their own cash n carrys. Might cost you a little bit more, but it's a far nicer, less stressful shopping experience than mixing it with the zombie...
Time to think outside the bogs. Bypass the panic-buying gumbies and try your local Happy Shopper or similar small corner shop/convenience store. They have a sometimes warranted reputation for high prices, which means the gumbies rarely shop there. Which will work in your favour here. Besides...
I'm old enough to remember that bygone era when Saino's were offering 40 bonus Nectar points to buy a four pack of their own brand toilet roll. How I yearn for that golden age of three weeks ago
The supermarkets could have nipped this in the bud by imposing sensible limits on certain goods eatlydoors, instead of being happy to take the selfish w@nkers money
Metro on Friday had a piece about a Facebook group called Aussie Stockpiling
https://www.google.com/amp/s/metro.co.uk/2020/03/13/food-gone-coronavirus-panic-buying-12392047/amp/
These people are the epitome of selfish w@nkers, ever so proud of their greedy little hoards