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here we go again and the supermarkets are definitely to blame after the debacle we had in the previous lockdown

Bought the toilet rolls last week, Vic!

I think the next few days may see some panic buying but I'd like to think the supermarkets will have got their supply / distribution chains sorted out now. I expect it will settle down pretty quickly after lockdown starts, and I also think we won't see as much queuing to get into the shops as we experienced last March/April because the facemask wearing rule means more bodies are allowed in the shops at once than back during the first lockdown; also folk are more savvy what time of day to actually go shopping.

And a lot of households will still be carrying pretty high stocks of tins and dry goods anyway. I just need one more shop on Monday, around £40 I reckon (Mrs O has demanded chocolate ), and we'll be good to go for pretty much the whole month.

As we're back in a State of Emergency, it will be interesting here too. Took our local Pingo quite a while to get themselves sorted, stock level wise (then again, they've always got things missing )

Got plenty of dry goods and the freezers are full, just the fresh stuff is needed weekly, really.

It's mad, isn't it....

I'm sorted for everything I need. Admittedly; I do have a click and collect order booked for tomorrow morning but that's because I've invited friends for dinner and they're vegan; so I need some specific foods and I also need some fresh veg that I can't bulk buy. But the main cupboard stuff I have enough to see me through for as long as is needed.

Jan, same as you, it's the fresh stuff that needs weekly shopping - and I found that was one of the bigger head aches last time round; because the minimum order value for deliveries or click & collect was more than I would spend if I popped into the shop in person. But thankfully Karl and Nadine, and another friend, also do online shopping so always ask if I need anything fresh and they add it to their order - or I order for them.

The only click and collect we have here is if the council organizes mini buses for the outlying villages, to go to Pingo

Hopefully it won't be as bad as last time.
Like most of us I suspect, we've been buying the odd extra item as it got closer to winter. So we have no need to go nuts.

JanB wrote:The only click and collect we have here is if the council organizes mini buses for the outlying villages, to go to Pingo

I will hopefully live out of the freezer more because I really need to defrost it
It's fresh stuff I need but that's difficult because it's just odd stuff like fruit really
All three people buying loads must throw half away

cromwell wrote:So we have no need to go nuts.

Ah, I knew I had forgotten something ....

As we were down to our last four rolls - and we have three loos - I bought a pack of loo rolls yesterday. The shelves were almost empty, although oddly they did have the 16-roll multipacks piled up by the checkouts That's encouraging panic buying it you ask me My purchase was a 9 pack