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And that's it, it's not panic buying anymore really. Any pictures I've seen in the last few days are just people with big trolleys doing a big shop, which hardly anyone (in London anyway) does regularly. So clearly supermarkets just don't have the shelf space or get enough frequent deliveries to cope.
Restricting people to 2 or 3 of a certain item is not going to be what solves the immediate issue. People are likely now doing that anyway, they're just getting a lot of stuff in one hit where they would have done that over the course of 1 week/2weeks. Not hoarding or being excessive.
Supermarkets need more staff to man the tills and restock the shelves, and also more deliveries.
Obvious rant is obvious.
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Personally - I don't think having 2 weeks worth of food in the house, especially for your daughter, is at all overkill. It's weird I've got so used to being able to pick up a little bit of shopping every other day, but remembering when i was a kid it was just normal to have about 2 months worth of supplies in the house. Nuclear anxiety and all that.