ASDA home delivery not sending toilet roll!

Tokmon

k.child90 said:

Tokmon said:

k.child90 said:

Yes it seems quite a few people here have got 2 weeks of supplies in a stash! I could not personally do this. As I said, everyone has different things they consider the right thing to do in these very strange circumstances

I don't understand why you think this is wrong? Like others have said buying the larger packs is better value so it's silly not to buy them because it's something you will always use so might as well get them as cheap as you can!. I always buy a 24 pack and this lasts quite a few months; which worked out well when i bought 1 pack in February last year and then didn't need another pack until the panic buying had calmed down and there was stock on the shelves.

I also buy 24 packs. I don't think that's wrong? I wouldn't feel comfortable buying a stash of extra toilet rolls though, after the shortages caused by people doing this.

You must have a big household then if 24 packs are less than 2 weeks supply.

But the point i was making is that buying a larger pack of some items is good financial sense and is something a lot of people do to save money and this usually results in more than 2 weeks of supply naturally. I have always bought more of a product a good time before i have ran out and thought this is what most people do.

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KxMx said:

Two person household here, one mild IBD one severe IBS. 
We always kept a good supply but got justifiably worried during lockdown #1, now get the 45 packs from Amazon, win for us as we have a good supply and win for others as we're not buying in a supermarket any longer. 

If you're a Prime member then add it onto Subscribe and Save and get even more money off - up to 15%. Excellent for items you use with regularity - mine includes everything from coffee pods, vitamins and toothpaste through to facial cleanser, buffalo wing sauce and an assortment of spirits. 

k.child90

Tokmon said:

k.child90 said:

Tokmon said:

k.child90 said:

Yes it seems quite a few people here have got 2 weeks of supplies in a stash! I could not personally do this. As I said, everyone has different things they consider the right thing to do in these very strange circumstances

I don't understand why you think this is wrong? Like others have said buying the larger packs is better value so it's silly not to buy them because it's something you will always use so might as well get them as cheap as you can!. I always buy a 24 pack and this lasts quite a few months; which worked out well when i bought 1 pack in February last year and then didn't need another pack until the panic buying had calmed down and there was stock on the shelves.

I also buy 24 packs. I don't think that's wrong? I wouldn't feel comfortable buying a stash of extra toilet rolls though, after the shortages caused by people doing this.

You must have a big household then if 24 packs are less than 2 weeks supply.

But the point i was making is that buying a larger pack of some items is good financial sense and is something a lot of people do to save money and this usually results in more than 2 weeks of supply naturally. I have always bought more of a product a good time before i have ran out and thought this is what most people do.

24 packs aren't less than 2 weeks supply. It lasts us maybe 2 months

jackieblack

I can’t work out if the OP is being deliberately obtuse or genuinely doesn’t ‘get it’ 

k.child90

I really don't think there's any reason to be so unpleasant. I absolutely understand the choice that other people make on this, and hopefully you can understand mine. Everyone has different things that they feel is the right thing to do, and that's OK. I would not feel at all comfortable buying a stash of supplies, and it seems you (and some others) would not feel comfortable not buying such a stash.
It seems to me perfectly natural that different people will have different views on something like that. It's also such a comically trivial matter to not just adopt a "live and let live" approach. I would never abuse you or anyone else for their view on this, and I think it's wrong for anyone else to be unpleasant or abusive towards me for mine.

jackieblack

I’m not being unpleasant - I am genuinely mystified!

Maybe it all boils down to the definition of ‘a stash’?

I (and many others it would seem) feel that, with the likelihood of suddenly needing to isolate at home for a couple of weeks, keeping a couple of weeks essentials in stock (including toilet rolls) is sensible. To us, it is common sense / forethought / reasonable planning under the current circumstances. But to you, this appears to constitute stockpiling. Frankly, I think that you stating that this constitutes buying ‘a stash’ of supplies is offensive!

To me, having ‘a stash’ is different, it means buying and stockpiling far, far more than you need, months worth! - no-one on this thread has said that they have done/ would do that, certainly not me!

 I only shop once or twice a month because it’s a 45 min round trip to the supermarket and I don’t have the opportunity to shop more frequently.  If there’s snow/ice in winter or I was to be unwell it might be a month between shopping visits, so I genuinely cannot fathom the mindset which would mean running so low on any essential product. 

And nobody’s been abusive, disagreeing is not abusive. If you post on a public forum you need to expect views contrary to your own. 

Anyway, I’m out now ✌️ 

I’m glad you got the toilet rolls you needed on this occasion - maybe put a couple aside just in case you have to isolate again 😉

k.child90

I called it a "stockpile" but other users were unhappy with this, calling it a "stash" instead, so I started calling it a "stash" and now you are unhappy with that too. In fact, you gave thanks to the first post using the word stash, and now are saying you find it offensive that I use that word. It's silly, and needlessly combative. Things like that, alongside each post calling me obtuse, short-sighted and so on is unpleasant. Even online, most people treat others a bit better than this.

Disagreement is totally fine. We can surely disagree and be friendly at the same time.

IvanOpinion

Got to say that we are guilty of having a stockpile of toilet rolls (just over 150 at the minute).  It wasn't deliberate but happened over a period of 6 months while we had no kitchen so our shopping was just being added to a large pile ... and I mistakenly kept reordering our main monthly shop instead of the much smaller weekly one. In amongst the pile we also found 28 bottles of bleach, 6 fabric conditioner, 18 kitchen rolls, 24 cans of sweetcorn, 56 cans of various peas, 14 packets of jammy wagon wheels and for some curious reason 3 cans of chickpeas (which is strange since neither of us eat chickpeas ... must have been a substitution at some point).  Sadly we also found a bag of Mccains oven chips that failed to make it to the freezer (looked more like a bag of soggy mash).

 On the plus side I am very popular with relatives who are in short supply.

k.child90

IvanOpinion said:

 On the plus side I am very popular with relatives who are in short supply.

Haha yes I can imagine!

BooJewels

You used the word immoral several times in respect of those of us that think keeping a contingency on hand of essential supplies in the current environment (or my own rather precarious circumstances with a very poorly husband, a habit started over 15 years ago) is a sensible and responsible precaution - in fact, as I linked, the Government advice is to do exactly that in case of potential isolation.  They want you prepared, so that you don't break isolation for the want of bog roll.  Or risk the health of a mate to do it for you - that to me is more unacceptable than putting away an emergency 4 pack at some point in previous weeks in preparedness.  You're living proof of why it's a sensible precaution. 

Because I've always habitually kept stock on hand of things I persistently use (I'm actually allowed to do that, if stores have stock and I have money and I'm not taking measures to circumvent restrictions), I didn't actually buy any toilet roll during the times of supply issues, so I certainly didn't add to that issue in any way.  There never was any actual shortage anyway - just a slight mis-timing of supply and demand due to the 'just in time' supply model that supermarkets work to and the power of suggestion to  people en masse.

I have no idea, when you buy the same size pack that I do, constituting a 6 week household supply of your own, how that makes your moral position any more worthy than my own.  You actually said "Yes it seems quite a few people here have got 2 weeks of supplies in a stash! I could not personally do this. "  Yet, you do precisely that yourself. 

Like Jackie, I'm out too.