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Found some tinned strawberries in syrup, £50, no splitting

£250 per household isn't it?

I've heard of an ambulance requiring accident almost every year I've done the Dynamo. Mostly caused by drivers on Epping High Road, but the fact remains that a large gathering of strangers is irresponsible in the current climate, unless things drastically change by June

£1,000,000,000 / 66,400,000 = £15.06pp

I wonder if people actually eat any of the food they have been buying or just add to their stockpile. I have increased my shopping volume to minimise the number of times I have to go out, as my wife is pregnant and we are self-isolating as much as possible. What I thought was a massive amount of food is actually not that much if it’s supposed to last a week or week and a half.

Around 65 million population right?

Around £15 per person as @laner says. Average of 2.5 per household is around £40 or so.

My weekly shop has definitely increased due to working from home. It's fair to say there's an accompanying drop in money being spent in cafes & coffee shops.

I wonder if people actually eat any of the food they have been buying or just add to their stockpile.

Marie Kondo must be losing her shit right now

South Manchester ... best kebab shop

Turkish Delight, yeah?

ONS says there are 4m households in the UK, got to think of that 65m a chunck are in hospitals, prisions, care homes etc. or babies so not getting fed from the supermarket

Edit - I can't read, there are:
-In 2018, there were 27.6 million households, an increase of 350,000 on the previous year and 1.7 million since 2008.
-In 2018, there were 19.1 million families in the UK, an increase of 8% from 17.7 million in 2008.

So an additional £52 per family on food, so a weeks worth maybe a bit less

Haha, would be interesting to see if all the faux-minimalists stick to their principles. I am seriously impressed that everyone has that much space at home to store stuff

As long as she’s in Japan she’ll be OK.

Someone I know spotted a car that was full of stuff, I've wondered how long before the window gets smashed and stuff taken by another person trying to hoard everything as if leaving a phone on the seat was enough before then a 4 pack of bog roll and some pasta will look like a gold bar.

Are people really hoarding? Think of all the food and toilet paper that usually gets consumed
outside of your home. All that has to be bought from supermarkets now instead of going through the
channels of wholesale for restaurants and institutions.
And add to that the food that people will now eat out of boredom.

Have you been to a supermarket? People are 100% hoarding.

I tried to buy some onions today but the local places had too many people in them. Still products on the shelves except the usual toilet paper/pasta combo.
Also the local vegetable shop has now closed.

Interesting. I think it may also still apply that if you were a conscientious objector and did civilian service, you can be called back to work in a hospital, etc. I doubt they'd pull that trigger, and perhaps the law has changed since then, but that used to be the idea.

If you are a fat blob with an SUV and a few kids your weekly shop may look like hoarding.

Well, the Dynamo is certainly a massive social event, was always conceived in this way, and has become even more so in recent years as the number of possible stopping places that do tea and food has gone up. Compared to its size, and I think compared to every other major social event, e.g. festivals, ambulance and medical requirements are minuscule, but the intensely social aspect would certainly make it fall under possible restrictions that may still apply at the time. Let's hope that the situation has improved by July.

Deptford High Street and Market is in full swing today.

To be clear I don't think the Dynamo is unsafe in normal circumstances. I agree that it probably does better on deaths/participants than something like the London Marathon. Just that as things stand it would be a bad idea

Just give it a miss you thick cunts. Je fucking sus.

John Lewis stores to remain shut from Monday morning.
I wonder how many of the high street so-called giants will lose some skin over this pandemic.
God help us all.
Being a mostly services economy doesn't bode well at all for our collective future.

On a side note, I went food shopping at Tesco Elmers End this lunchtime and there were (still) too many people around for the little left on the shelves. Lots of booze or freshly baked bread. Nada of many many lines...

Amazing how much arguing about riding bikes or not, the forum is now largely just current projects that people chuck a ton of money at, ride for less than 200 miles and then sell in the classifieds to fund an equally ridiculous vanity project.

The number of people who actually ride bikes is vanishingly small.

I only shop at local shops, and those are slightly emptier, with certain items low or gone, but in general they're still well-stocked. Today one of the guys there complained that the cash & carry was pretty empty, so I suppose even local shops may soon not be able to re-stock. The local pharmacist said that they were so busy they didn't have time to order anything. Two pharmacies near me that are normally open on Saturdays were closed, no sign on the door to say why.

Then you had the bizarre spectacle the other day of Angela Merkel of all people invoking 'solidarity' and calling "Hamsterkäufe" (a German word for stockpiling, literally 'hamster(-like) buying') "unsolidarisch". Never thought I'd see the day.

To be clear I don't think the Dynamo is unsafe in normal circumstances.

Er? Why would you think that?