2 weeks or 3 months?

Having returned this morning from Sainsbury elderly shopping hour -which followed the one hour allocated to NHS, etc staff. I must say, most people were polite, and I had no problem doing my normal weekly shop (off my written list), and staying a good two metres away from anyone else. I used, as I always do, Smart shop, and did the whole thing in under 30 minutes. Sainsbury tannoy were informing people of limits on certain items, but I would still like to see ration coupons being issued and used for many items.

I must confess to a mini panic when I thought our nearly new and rather expensive freezer had gone on the blink - again!
Luckily I think it's ok.

Urmstongran
My guess is that people are camping out in their own gardens and putting the extra freezers and stockpiles in their living rooms bedrooms and bathrooms. ????????????????????????

How different shopping habits are in the US vs UK.

In the US, buying for 2 weeks or more is normal, it is not common to go to buy fresh groceries daily or every other day.

We also have bigger homes here, which makes a huge difference.

I think if some of you saw costco, Sam's club, BJ, would faint

If DS shops for fresh food for us, his own family and also his MIL it may look as if he is overloading the trolley and being greedy, when he is just caring for vulnerable elderly family.

DH just phoned to speak to a friend to be told by his elderly infirm wife that he has gone out for a paper. He is 91. I despair.

GG54
I read yesterday that people were also buying fridge/freezers as extra storage. Bluddy ridiculous. Some U.K. homes must be like mini-marts.
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As a senior - how can people treat the elderly so poorly?

How can a senior assume the intent of others? This thread is full of assumptions and criticism

This board is full of threads of posters asking if they can babysit, go on vacation, what happens to mother's day, enabling cousins who go to Greece, want to visit a brother who is in the hospital, want to go to church to pray, etc

Who is being disrespectful to seniors then? They are seniors themselves!

In Denmark, they were charging a reasonable price for one hand sanitiser and an extortionate price if you bought two! Opposite of a Bogof. What a good idea.

May I ask if you know those people personally?

I agree they could be stock piling, have a f as family of 4 teenagers or buy groceries for their parents, elderly neighbours, donating food to the food bank, etc.
You just don't know by looking at them.

This is all dreadful. I dislike people at the best of times but I find all this fighting and panic deplorable. I shop for two. We are eating our way through what we have with a weekly shop. Creative cooking.
I hate to say this but I think the police/army are going to have to supervise the shopping and a maximum spend allowance imposed.
As a senior - how can people treat the elderly so poorly?
I also wonder where these people get the money to buy so much stuff, particularly now so many people are being laid off.
Rant over. Back to the days disinfecting routine.

Well I for one will never go to another allocated elderly hour. It was worse than a rugby scrum. People, husbands and wives with a trolley each. I arrived 30 minutes into the hour, the shelves were stripped, trolleys winding round and around the aisles waiting to pay. I saw a friend of mine at the back of one such queue, trolley laden, she had arrived one hour before opening and finally got out one hour after it shut. I came out without anything and thought if you wanted to catch anything that would be the place. I am running low, so eventually will drive out to a farm shop and get what I can, with a face mask and regulation disposable gloves, I have a box of those I want to hang on as long as I can, but will have run out of milk in a week, as with bread.

Well our Morrisons and Aldi are in quite an affluent area, I haven't been to either since the panic buying started, but been told shelves stripped bare and Morrisons also has long queues. Our Lidl is in the middle of an area with lots of council houses; no queues, plently of food on the shelves (only flour, toilet rolls and fresh chicken missing). Maybe it's because people there don't have enough money to stock pile, or maybe they are just not as selfish?! Although it's where I usually do my main shop, I won't be bothering with Morrisons any time soon, am managing to find all I need at Lidl.

‘‘Twas ever thus’.

Used to listen to Mum talking about the Black Market in the war, which is what all the stuff on e bay being sold at ridiculous prices comes down to.

On a lighter note, Rhett Butler in GWTW made his fortune in the American Civil War, I suppose he profited from all his blockading.

easybee, I'm isolating and only going out to walk the dog. When I'm out, I'm socially distancing. By choice, I'll do this for three months, at least.

Yet even I know of three local contacts who can supply anything I need. I have enough for a couple of weeks, anyway, but I'm surprised how quickly the 'enterprising' are making profits from a crisis!

I think this so called panic buying and hoarding will soon reveal the people who' just happen' to have a few spare toilet rolls or bread or paracetamol, at a price.

Go to the government guidelines. assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/874281/COVID-19_easy_read.pdf They say quite clearly: Stay at home and don’t meet up with other people for 7 days if you have Coronavirus symptoms. After 7 days, if you feel better, you can start your usual routine again

Stay at home and don’t meet up with other people for 14 days if you share your home with someone who has symptoms of Coronavirus

People with serious underlying conditions, who will be individually contacted by letter from the NHS in the next week will be advised to Socially Exclude themselves for the next three months.

For the rest of us; those under 70 are advised to socially distance themselves from other people for the next three months and over 70s and those with underlying medical conditions are strongly advised to socially distance themselves. www.gov.uk/government/publications/covid-19-guidance-on-social-distancing-and-for-vulnerable-people/guidance-on-social-distancing-for-everyone-in-the-uk-and-protecting-older-people-and-vulnerable-adults

And still people don't understand!

If you are told to stay in for 12 weeks - you won’t want to shop weekly. Best to get some stock in, surely? Not defending profiteering and the like but we always have enough in for a couple of weeks. I’m not going near a supermarket for the foreseeable.

We have an online delivery every week and I am sure any new delivery drivers think we must be stockpiling as I am buying for 5 adults and 2 children.

Well, that's me for the night.
Just had 3 Weetabix with milk after a shower and now in pjs in bed with window open and I will watch some Last Tango episodes I haven't seen and then some true murders on YouTube if I can stay awake.
Spritzing This Works sleep spray sends me to sleep quite rapidly. Great stuff.
Sweet dreams to everyone...??

I do hope I won't be put into the stockpiling category when I go shopping this week. I usually do a monthly shop on pay week which, falls this week, so I will be running very low on quite a few items for me and the dogs. I've only bought one or two fresh bits over the last couple of weeks. Now I'm also shopping for my 85 year old mother and 87 year old neighbour. Then, to top it off, my daughter will need a few fresh bits for herself and the grandchildren. I'm sure my trolley won't particularly look good but, it's all quite genuine and I want to get it done in one go so I don't have to go back.

Yes EllanVannin, they are
GPs are writing to everyone on their list who is classed as high-risk and telling them not to go out (off their premises) for any reason whatsoever for 3 months.
Not shopping, not prescriptions, nothing. They are to ask relatives, friends and if they have no-one who can help, they will have food boxes (or similar) delivered by the army.

Surely before long some of the shoppers will have to cut down as they must run out of money! They must be buying months worth instead of weeks worth.

On your honour, not in.

Trisha57
Could it be that they are trying to prevent theft, after all, you are in your honour to scan every item but in these circumstances, will everyone do just that?