Supermarket Success

[Vagus]

Headed to sainsburys for 8am, just after the NHS folk.
No queue, few shoppers, everything on the weekly shopping list purchased except blue cheese salad dressing which we can just about manage without ;)
Depending on what Asda click and collect come up with tomorrow, we may not bother with Asda again, someone else can have our slot.
Does this mean frantic shopping is reducing, or is more food generally being rolled out, or a combination of both, or other factors?

[CrapAtCryptics]

maybe common sense is prevailing

[Buenchico]

The 'frantic shopping' seemed to have disappeared in some stores some time ago. I went to Waitrose in Ipswich at 0755 last Thursday (during the oldies' hour) and there was only a fairly short queue outside. When I left at just after 9, there was no queue at all (and hardly anyone in the store).

I suppose that, once people have completely filled their cupboards, fridges and freezers with food, it finally dawns on them that they don't actually need to go shopping for a while!

[teacake44]

May be its sunk in that there is no shortage of food, and there never was until some greed set in, there maybe one or two items we shall see missing from the shelves in the coming months due to a lot of importing from other countries, and even that is depending on weather they have a reduced work force, and I'm sure we won't miss one or two products that we can do without. We can produce our own basics.

[Peter Pedant]

my buyer reported that common sense seemed to be prevailing

[gingejbee]

My experience of Waitrose is the same as Chris's....mid-morning, there was less than 5 minutes wait to get in, very quiet in the store and lots of most things....but a limit on the "popular" stuff.

[Ken4155]

Could just be that those who 'panic-bought' until their eyes popped out of their skulls now have no more room to stash their gear. Or they've run out of cash:-/

[bednobs]

nah, it's payday!

[ummmm]

I get sick of seeing the word 'greed'

You have no idea who these people are shopping for or how many.

[Bobbisox1]

Hope so Vagus

[teacake44]

What a lot of the greedy people didn't realise is that the food industry is massive = thousands of businesses in this country and all over the world, none of these companies are going to stand by and watch them fold, its in their own interests to keep them going. Other countries also rely on exporting their food products to the UK, so take it easy!!

[bednobs]

i had an ocado shop on sunday, in which i was shopping for five different families

[teacake44]

11.55 Weather or not you get sick of it or not, I would say that 85% of it was greed. :0)

[TonyV]

Not being pious, but I just carried on with my normal shopping routine, we manage to throw enough out of date food in the bin as it is.

[hellywelly4]

Can't say that I've ever needed blue cheese salad dressing in my 79 years on the planet!!!!! (Sorry xxx).

[pixie374]

I have (tried to) carry on as normal. We got one order with most stuff missing, but got a better one Sunday. Only potatoes seem to be a luxury item around here... it does seem to be calming down a bit, as it was the first time I could get a slot in ages.

[Buenchico]

Some restrictions are now lifted:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-52102906

[pastafreak]

If anyone is absolutely desperate for blue cheese dressing...just buy the cheese. Whizz with mayo or sour cream or creme fraiche or just cream. Season. Basic. Easy peasy.

[Vagus]

hellywelly, we don’t ‘need’ blue cheese dressing either, it’s just one of our favourites :)
Don’t think I could be bothered to be honest pasta, especially as we have no blue cheese. We do however have Caesar dressing.