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In Lewes this lunchtime, I thought I'd pop in to ALDI to get some bits. To face 40 or 50 people queuing outside, with little movement. Mainly the elderly. A 'f*ck this for a game of soldiers' moment, I departed.

Loo roll hoarding has resumed. https://www.theargus.co.uk/news/18742880.shelves-emptied/

I got there at 9. Same story. You’ve reminded me ..... I forgot to stockpile pasta :(

ALDI Portslade was packed this morning, long queues at the tills. Normally I breeze through. A queue to get into the car park. Hadn’t seen that since May.

:lolol: They’re etched in my brain. I get the groceries and in March/April/May I kept coming back empty handed :( Next stop, Aldi tomorrow. I hope the stampede isn’t back.

I thought this might restart. Last time, it was also paracetamol, home baking stuff, eggs, tinned foods, porridge. Once it gets going, the hoarding has a momentum of its own.

Control is the key word. 5live managed to speak to many of the initial hoarders, some of whom are openly Domesday predictors. They candidly admitted to being control freaks in their lives in general. Having cupboards full of paracetamol, rice, baked beans, loo rolls, porridge gives them a...

Rice especially basmati - for the first couple of weeks, plenty. Then another COVID-19 self fulfilling prophecy, it became THE thing to hoard. Lemmings must've been three giant bags of the stuff each. Tonic water for gin - this was getting raided weeks ago. An ASDA delivery driver...

A funny byproduct of this crisis is I suspect is that shoppers carefully guard their trolleys as they shop.:lol::lol::lol::lol: None of the old relaxed meandering with the trolley sometimes left on its own.

Yep, tried for the lot. As a father of a daughter who’s prone to colds, plus my own man-flu’s, I know all the products with paracetamol in. Plus you always get that verbal health warning on repeat “you aren’t taking any other paracetamol based products are you?”.

I’ve had similar luck with rice and porridge of all things. A sea of shelves blitzed by locusts, but at the very back of the bottom shelf a lonely pack waiting for me :smile:. Missed by the greedy stiffs at 6am.

Lucky ....gold dust.

According to both ASDA and Sainsbury’s staff, families are queueing at 6am or whatever, grabbing their individual max of Calpol and paracetamol, then paying at separate tills. Then rinse and repeat, day after day. Beggars belief, the absolute greed and selfishness. We first got low in our...

The paracetamol/Calpol hoarding, still going on, is selfish and presents a danger to those who can’t get any. Shop staff have told me that when their doors open at whatever o’clock, the same old early-birds every day, literally sprint to the paracetamol shelves to strip them bare within...

You’re kindly averaging it out. A minority of households have been bulk hoarding for weeks by getting to supermarkets at 6am, someone in this thread mentioned a mate with 4 freezers set up their garage just for typical family. The hoarding includes stuff that might enhance the chance of...

The supermarket shelves are full at 6 or 7 when they open each day, enabling the freezer purchasers to carry on hoarding to their hearts content.

Agreed. Our ASDA today had tons of fruit such as bananas, shoppers seemingly disinterested in perishables, similarly in abundance all the unhealthy breakfast cereals, sweets, chocolate, ice creams, yogurts. Whereas rice, porridge, paracetamol, uncooked meats, chilled pasta, loo rolls .... all...

Millwall supporter? They all seem to wear that type of Peaky Blinders cloth cap, plus of course the faux Burberry hoodie.

I asked a manager at ASDA Hollingbury today, what’s it like when they open at 6 each morning. The answer: “Huge football like crowds each day, and there’ve been several fist fights between shoppers”. Going late morning I missed out on quite few bits, I’ll try again another day, but how...

My guess is that the initial hoarders a few weeks back took everything they wanted and more. With far more people gradually joining in since then, on finding empty shelves and items sought missing. Meaning the shelves remain empty when we appear. If this continues, I’ll have to set the alarm...