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[DRM]

The key is being sensible while doing it.
As the first cases of covid appeared in Italy (it seems so long ago now), i started buying a bit extra, long life milk, cans, stuff that would keep. Nothing stupid (imo), just prudent shopping reacting to impending (as i saw it) problems.
Im doing the same now for Christmas, bottles of pop, pineapple juices etc etc. Mind thats partly because i hate carrying bottles and bottles of the bloody stuff during the xmas shop. Spread the load now.
The toilet roll debacle is a typical example of people losing their mind. Spending a few quid extra a week seems sensible to me, filling your trolley with enough loo roll to last a year isnt.

There’s a world of difference between spreading your Xmas shop out from now till the big day, to buying hordes of stuff in multiples that you’ll never use in a million years, only to chuck it out in the new year because it’s all gone off, that’s how stupid and greedy people are

 

[Archie_tect]

We go to Costco every 2 or 3 months to get some basics, like teabags, baked beans, washing powder and corned beef [we do like corned beef hash in winter]. You can't buy less than 20 x 4 toilet rolls in a wholesale pack but last week loads of folk were loading up 4 packs of toilet rolls... that's 320 rolls- are they expecting an international ebola outbreak next?

 

[Reynard]

We go to Costco every 2 or 3 months to get some basics, like teabags, baked beans, washing powder and corned beef [we do like corned beef hash in winter]. You can't buy less than 20 x 4 toilet rolls in a wholesale pack but last week loads of folk were loading up 4 packs of toilet rolls... that's 320 rolls- are they expecting an international ebola outbreak next?

It was about this time last year that I received a till voucher for toilet roll. Had a good giggle with the till ladies in Tesco about it, because there was nary a roll to be had in the shop, and we were all saying that it would only make sense if Covid actually gave you the trots...

Never did get to redeem the voucher in the end. Hey ho...

 

[Drago]

View: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=OrWcEGDXOUg

 

[classic33]

In Wilko's earlier today, and noticed the following in short supply on shelves.
Saucepans
Crockery
Wallpaper
Nappies
Washing Powder
Light Bulbs

 

[KnittyNorah]

In Wilko's earlier today, and noticed the following in short supply on shelves.
Saucepans
Crockery
Wallpaper
Nappies
Washing Powder
Light Bulbs

Round here, at this time of year, students descend on Wilkos and Poundstretcher for household goods, like locusts on a green field in the desert. I expect that's where all the saucepans and crockery went.

 

[classic33]

Round here, at this time of year, students descend on Wilkos and Poundstretcher for household goods, like locusts on a green field in the desert. I expect that's where all the saucepans and crockery went.

Possible, but can you explain the others?

 

[KnittyNorah]

Possible, but can you explain the others?

The washing powder is because they do have very good offers on 'brands' and a lot of people go for 'brands'. Students probably use washing powder to soak the burnt saucepans in the hope of rescuing them ...
Students are probably behind at least some of the lightbulbs - student accommodation being what it is, they'll proabbly want brighter lights if they're studying hard, and dimmer, atmospheric ones if their attention is on other matters.
Nappies, again probably a brand issue - if they've had really good offers on, a thrifty mum who goes for brands will have bought A LOT.
Wallpaper, you've lost me on.

 

[Dolorous Edd]

In Wilko's earlier today, and noticed the following in short supply on shelves.
Saucepans
Crockery
Wallpaper
Nappies
Washing Powder
Light Bulbs

From what I understand, Wilko has never been a store that tries to offer a full range of products (unlike Tesco etc). They have always focussed on products that they negotiate good deals on and are able to offer at attractive prices. So the fact that they are not offering a certain product does not indicate a "shortage of supply".

 

[Reynard]

The washing powder is because they do have very good offers on 'brands' and a lot of people go for 'brands'. Students probably use washing powder to soak the burnt saucepans in the hope of rescuing them ...
Students are probably behind at least some of the lightbulbs - student accommodation being what it is, they'll proabbly want brighter lights if they're studying hard, and dimmer, atmospheric ones if their attention is on other matters.
Nappies, again probably a brand issue - if they've had really good offers on, a thrifty mum who goes for brands will have bought A LOT.
Wallpaper, you've lost me on.

's funny, cos soda would be a far better option for rescuing burnt pans... Not much else has the required "oomph"

 

[KnittyNorah]

's funny, cos soda would be a far better option for rescuing burnt pans... Not much else has the required "oomph"

I know that and you know that but lots of people think washing powder (powder, it has to be powder apparently! made into a thick paste) will do the trick. I suppose it will be fairly alkaline (as washing soda would be) and the detergent action will help too, so it might be reasonably effective. An expensive way to do it, though!

 

[classic33]

From what I understand, Wilko has never been a store that tries to offer a full range of products (unlike Tesco etc). They have always focussed on products that they negotiate good deals on and are able to offer at attractive prices. So the fact that they are not offering a certain product does not indicate a "shortage of supply".

The shelves where they should have been were all but empty.

 

[Reynard]

I know that and you know that but lots of people think washing powder (powder, it has to be powder apparently! made into a thick paste) will do the trick.

It's basic chemistry though, isn't it...

 

[classic33]

The washing powder is because they do have very good offers on 'brands' and a lot of people go for 'brands'. Students probably use washing powder to soak the burnt saucepans in the hope of rescuing them ...
Students are probably behind at least some of the lightbulbs - student accommodation being what it is, they'll proabbly want brighter lights if they're studying hard, and dimmer, atmospheric ones if their attention is on other matters.
Nappies, again probably a brand issue - if they've had really good offers on, a thrifty mum who goes for brands will have bought A LOT.
Wallpaper, you've lost me on.

The list included their own brands.

 

[KnittyNorah]

It's basic chemistry though, isn't it...

Of course it is, but lack of basic chemical understanding - and of basic physics and biology! - and how it applies to everyday life is very often the reason why household, cooking and garden 'stuff' fails for people ...

Making bread is difficult. Did you check the yeast was alive, and keep it happy? Alive? What do you mean?
Why did my houseplant die? I watered it every day! It probably drowned - what sort of plant was it? A cactus - I thought they were easy to look after ...
etc etc etc