I popped our nearest Aldi yesterday and this is what I found.
No there hasn't been a zombie apocalypse warning, but the media did hype up the weather warning, and what does everyone do? They buy bread of course! Personally I've never understood why bread is the first thing to sell out, we only buy it very occasionally, I could happily live without it altogether.
They also cleared the shelves of vegetables, meat and eggs and coffee and tea!
What is wrong with people! Hording and stockpiling food doesn't sit well with me, I just can't understand it, buy what you need and perhaps one extra, you are not going to starve! perhaps then there would be enough for anyone else who couldn't get to the supermarket until after work.
All this was because the media said we were due the biggest snow fall for ten years, at least a foot or more in our area they said.
And yes we have had snow, this much when I got up this morning.
Nowhere near the amount that was predicted and as I'm typing this it has mostly turned to slush and I wouldn't be surprised if it's all but gone tomorrow.
I wonder if all those who raided the Aldi yesterday are feeling silly now they have umpteen loaves of bread to get through. More importantly, how much of what was bought will go to waste?
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I do wonder how much of the excess will go to landfill, I'm with you its stupid behaviour.
Looks like they probably haven't received their warehouse delivery due to the bad weather
Pauline
The weather wasn't bad at that point so deliveries had got through, this was just people being greedy and the media scaring the public into buying more than they needed.
Goodness me! Peoples behaviour!
Perhaps Aldi should have put restrictions on purchases e.g no more than three of anything ... just a thought!?
All the best Jan
I can't believe the selfishness of people sometimes, yes restrictions would have been a good idea.
I can remember the great toilet paper run during the early days of the Covid pandemic. Oh and the sanitizer run as well. My friends husband probably had a year or more of toilet paper and at least that much in hand sterilizer as well. His excuse was he was purchasing for 4 families, except that their youngest son lives over 1000 km. away and wouldn't be popping by for a roll of toilet paper.
God bless.
I hate to see the waste too. I agree but you will really eat and be prepared but not a hoarder and end up throwing it away.
The same thing happens here. The news people make it sound like every little weather blip is the next apocalypse. Seriously, the first thing to go in our store is milk and eggs. How long do you think milk and eggs are going to last if the power goes out. (I guess if it is a snowstorm you can put those things out on the porch.)
Snow , when we have it here never lasts very long so there is really no need to stockpile, I woul imagine a lot would go to waste.
Thankfully power outages are usually rare here, they do happen in some parts but are normally up and running again fairly quickly. Our weather is not as extreme as in the US and we don't have snow like we used to when I was young.
We have the same here in Devon I also blame the shops they should only allow people to buy so much.
We had over 100 miles per hour winds here and Ice to put up with
We were lucky only our back fence went.
Lots of trees down and some have no power.
Enjoy your week hugs June.
No common sense on anyone's part. The media love to scaremonger, shops are happy to sell what they can when they can, and the public will have wasted a lot of money when they end up throwing a lot of what they've bought in the bin. Glad you wasn't affected too badly in the storm. Still no snow here.
We keep a reasonably well stocked pantry, with some powdered and long life milk, and make our own bread, but remembering the winter of 1962-63, our first thought when bad weather is forecast is, “Have we enough milk?” It was sensible to get an extra bottle from the local Co-op. No need to panic buy. We had snow and it is dangerously icy this morning so no going out.
Yes I can understand buy one or two extra of things. It's icy underfoot in our road, although we went over into the next town today and there was nothing there, very strange.
Yes I've been hearing on the radio that Devon and Cornwall have had high winds. That missed us and most of the snow has gone today, except in our street, lol. It's icy though.
You're right, the shops are happy to sell and make more profit. We still have snow all around our estate and it's icy but we went over to another town today and there was nothing at all!
Yes I suspect a lot of what was bought will go to waste.
Oh dear, well I suppose he had to think up some excuse for buying all that loo roll 😉
Greedy selfish people, makes me sad.
Me too, there really is no need
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