Wednesday, March 18, 2020

Things people panic buy

As many people have said, from last weekend, the panic buying expanded from mere toilet paper, pasta, pasta sauce, rice and disinfectants into meat and produce.   Hence, my local Coles is (as of today) still short of most meats and sold out of all chicken (and eggs).   (As others have said, surely fridge and freezer capacity is at its limits now?  People can't keep buying meat to last a month, can they?)

But I was curious as to the things that were still in plentiful supply:  dairy products being a key one.  It seems nothing will persuade people to buy much more yoghurt, butter and cheese, and the range of ready made dips were in plentiful supply too.  These are high calorie, filling foods, mostly with a good "shelf" life in the fridge too - but people don't seem to want to buy it. 

The vegan section still has quite a lot - no one is touching the fake chicken and Quorn is still available. 

The fruit and vegies got re-supplied overnight, although there was not much broccoli - it's probably gone.  

In other oddities - bleach sold out early in this panic period.  What are people doing with it? 

And now for a joke:

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Plenty of tinned fish too

Steve said...

Yeah, the larger cans were getting in shorter supply; but the small cans are fairly plentiful.

Sardines - I should have checked the sardine situation. Trouble is, I only get my favourite Portuguese brand from a deli in West End. I wonder how their stock is holding up?

GMB said...

" (As others have said, surely fridge and freezer capacity is at its limits now? People can't keep buying meat to last a month, can they?)"

Yeah exactly. So we won't have these shortages when the big conarona bomb hits this winter. Its a beautiful thing. Plus sardines are about the most nutritious food around. So its not like anyone is missing out that much.