Panic buying come end of the month?

Crashy_Time

James_Green_1982 wrote: »

I think all this talk of food shortages is a load of old tosh.

It assumes that just because the UK leaves the EU, then border controls need to be enforced. But that's not true. The UK govt could just tell the ''Border Force'' to wave all the lorries through without checking anything.
Likewise the French could do the same.

IMO there will be a surplus as supermarkets have probably already been stockpiling certain goods? Look for clearance sale prices in the coming months.

51mm5

Food price crash? Given up property prices?

AG47

Crashy_Time wrote: »

IMO there will be a surplus as supermarkets have probably already been stockpiling certain goods? Look for clearance sale prices in the coming months.

This thread should be renamed, panic buying at the end of the extension period

When ever that may eventually be

Herzlos

James_Green_1982 wrote: »

I think all this talk of food shortages is a load of old tosh.

It assumes that just because the UK leaves the EU, then border controls need to be enforced. But that's not true. The UK govt could just tell the ''Border Force'' to wave all the lorries through without checking anything.
Likewise the French could do the same.

World Trade Organisation rules mean they can't do that, though. Most Favoured Nation means that with no trade deal, you need to treat everyone the same. No checking for EU goods means no checking for Cambodian goods.

lisyloo

This thread should come to an end.
We’ve all have so much notice to prepare that anyone that wanted to stock up has, so there’s not going to be a panic.

I haven’t done any stocking up.

movilogo

The World Trade Organisation (WTO) has said that there is nothing in its rules that would force either the EU or UK to erect a hard Irish border after Brexit.


https://www.irishtimes.com/news/ireland/irish-news/wto-says-its-rules-would-not-force-eu-or-uk-to-erect-hard-irish-border-1.3710136

phillw

Crashy_Time wrote: »

IMO there will be a surplus as supermarkets have probably already been stockpiling certain goods? Look for clearance sale prices in the coming months.

My understanding is the super market stock piles are in the order of a few weeks.

They can rotate the stock all the time they need to maintain the stockpile, if they want to reduce it then they just reduce their incoming orders.

Their biggest problem would be if society collapses enough that we stop buying things, but there isn't much you can do to plan for that scenario.

AG47

In uncertain times it's always good to hve some extra food and provisions.

Most people have about three days of food in their homes, and the last day or so will be scrapping the bottom of the barrel.

These are certainly uncertain times. The best case scenario will still see impact on virtually everybody.

The worst case scenario doesn't even warrant thinking about, but the reality will probably be something in between.

LHW99

Most people have about three days of food in their homes

Surely most people have freezers, and few will empty them completely each week. If the contents can't provide a reasonable meal after only 3 days, its their shopping lists that need looking at.

Malthusian

Not when the power is shut off after hard Brexit and all the food in your freezer thaws.

If your response to that counter is "Why would the power be shut off?" you're not playing properly. There is no weighting of probability allowed here. There is no "why", only "what", as in "'s the worst thing I can think of".

In prepper mentality the worst case scenario is the only one that matters. If you think you've found a solution then you haven't thought of the worst case scenario yet.