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aardvaak

Is this  madness or plain selfishness?

https://youtu.be/qEw27UFw04Q

olgadapolga

aardvaak said:

Is this  madness or plain selfishness?

https://youtu.be/qEw27UFw04Q

Selfishness.

I was in Lidl this morning as soon as they opened and the place had clearly been ransacked yesterday. No flour, toilet rolls, pasta, tinned/jar goods. Basically anything with a long sell by date had gone. Including beer, now I come to think of it.

maman

It's not something I'd advise but it is understandable to an extent. If people really intend to get out as little as possible in the next month they'll work through their stocks so it'll balance out. 

Yahoo_Mail

maman said:

It's not something I'd advise but it is understandable to an extent. If people really intend to get out as little as possible in the next month they'll work through their stocks so it'll balance out. 

Not sure any of them need that much toilet paper though? If they do they really need to consider getting more fibre in their diet...

maman

Yahoo_Mail said:

maman said:

It's not something I'd advise but it is understandable to an extent. If people really intend to get out as little as possible in the next month they'll work through their stocks so it'll balance out. 

Not sure any of them need that much toilet paper though? If they do they really need to consider getting more fibre in their diet...

🤣 I really meant stocking up in general but I take your point. 

greyteam1959

Probably buying it to resell on eBay.

aardvaak

greyteam1959 said:

Probably buying it to resell on eBay.

Yes that was what I thought - lets hope eBay blocks theirs ads (as I think has happened before) and they have a hell of credit card bill

What I also hope is they are not going to rip off some elderly or vunulable person.

aardvaak

Yahoo_Mail said:

maman said:

It's not something I'd advise but it is understandable to an extent. If people really intend to get out as little as possible in the next month they'll work through their stocks so it'll balance out. 

Not sure any of them need that much toilet paper though? If they do they really need to consider getting more fibre in their diet...

Nobody needs that amount of toilet paper - have they not thought what was used before toilet paper?

KxMx

Sounds like the supermarkets are slow again in imposing limits. 

Iceland did only allow one pack of loo roll with our order a few weeks ago, as I've no confidence Tesco will deliver any on Thursday I did buy 45 rolls from Amazon as getting low now due to not being able to get 2 from Iceland. 

I'll now not need to buy any in the shops for some time leaving it for others. 

With mild IBD & severe IBS in the household, we absolutely need lots at any one time! 

od244051

KxMx said:

Sounds like the supermarkets are slow again in imposing limits. 

Iceland did only allow one pack of loo roll with our order a few weeks ago, as I've no confidence Tesco will deliver any on Thursday I did buy 45 rolls from Amazon as getting low now due to not being able to get 2 from Iceland. 

I'll now not need to buy any in the shops for some time leaving it for others. 

With mild IBD & severe IBS in the household, we absolutely need lots at any one time! 

From my experience from working at an essential shop (not supermarket) and a few  friends that do also work in supermarkets and other essential shops. Limits made the situation worse! If there's a limit of three bottles of bleach, many presumed you had to buy ALL THREE! The only time customers did buy less than three was when there's only 1 or 2 left on the shelf as the cases the bleach and other restricted products come in cases which don't go into three - 10, 20 etc.

Some people with no health issues down below use far too much loo roll. I remember having a friend over for a coffee and she used the loo once for a number 1 and used a quarter of a loo roll (50-55 sheets).