Panic Buy of the Week!

[Kaz]

Even bigger gaps today

[TheOstrich]

It's quite peculiar - Waitrose have been struggling for many weeks in some of their departments, and it's mainly been with their "own brand" Essentials range, especially in the bakery and things like bath foam. It's a large "regional hub" store with responsibility for home deliveries across a lot of Dorset, east Somerset and south Wilts - Sherborne and Warminster locally are smaller stores and don't have a delivery fleet, AFAIK - so something's definitely been going wrong for them. It's been a question of "if you see it, grab it" - often the last one.

Aldi, I just can't get a handle on. Now you see it, now you don't, it may come back, it may not, and every 10th item seems to be blue-labelled as "I'm New" - impossible to keep up with!
Tubs of carrot and swede mash (we regularly have it on a Sunday) have appeared all of a sudden out of nowhere in the last fortnight, and at less than half the price of Waitrose's similar product, which itself went missing in August / September .....

[Workingman]

If things keep going the way they are we will all be seeking out interesting swede, turnip and beet recipes this winter.

Swede curry with Bombay turnips and a glass of carrot wine - yummy.

[miasmum]

Those sanctimonious vegans will be laughing their socks off

[saundra]

Just read in the DM there will be a meat crises
15;000 butcher's short
No well tin cornbeef it is then

[cromwell]

The Daily Mail is absolutely revelling in all this. Imo they are actively trying to stir up fear and panic. Under the guise of "we are just reporting what is going on ".
If there is any rumour about any crisis you can be sure that the Mail will have it in screaming capitalised headlines before you can say "panic buying ".
This is a paper that used pictures of the first wave of panic buying whilst trying to incite a second wave.

[meriad]

The Daily Mail is absolutely revelling in all this. Imo they are actively trying to stir up fear and panic. Under the guise of "we are just reporting what is going on ".
If there is any rumour about any crisis you can be sure that the Mail will have it in screaming capitalised headlines before you can say "panic buying ".
This is a paper that used pictures of the first wave of panic buying whilst trying to incite a second wave.

Spot on Crommers - the media really needs to be taken to task how they report things

[saundra]

I now won't read the DM
It's true it's media hyp