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  • Thread starter Alan Dugdales Moustache
  • Start date Mar 16, 2020
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OffenhamSkyBlue

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  • Mar 22, 2020
  • #386
Sky_Blue_Dreamer said:
Or ransack her house.
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Kick her back door in?!
 
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Deleted member 4439

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  • Mar 22, 2020
  • #387
Wonder if we've peaked panicked. No more than usual waiting to go into canley s/b today. Bread, eggs, milk and loo rolls available (though the latter not full). Veg sections looked full, mainly the likes of baked beans still empty.
 

Grendel

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  • Mar 22, 2020
  • #388
dubed said:
Wonder if we've peaked panicked. No more than usual waiting to go into canley s/b today. Bread, eggs, milk and loo rolls available (though the latter not full). Veg sections looked full, mainly the likes of baked beans still empty.
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I think it’s just a lottery when you go In. Shelves get stocked and they empty at a very much quicker rate
 
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Deleted member 4439

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  • Mar 22, 2020
  • #389
Could well be.
 
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Brighton Sky Blue

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  • Mar 22, 2020
  • #390
There were lots of fresh fruit and veg basically untouched yesterday. Meat was variable, frozen section was OK but pasta and bog roll were nowhere to be found. I hadn’t thought that there’d be no bags left so had to get an unimpressed missus to bring some from home
 
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Otis

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  • Mar 22, 2020
  • #391
Brighton Sky Blue said:
There were lots of fresh fruit and veg basically untouched yesterday. Meat was variable, frozen section was OK but pasta and bog roll were nowhere to be found. I hadn’t thought that there’d be no bags left so had to get an unimpressed missus to bring some from home
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I got the promise of a blowjob if I came home from the shops with a bag of pasta. And that was just my next door neighbour, Hazel.
 
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Brighton Sky Blue

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  • Mar 22, 2020
  • #392
Otis said:
I got the promise of a blowjob if I came home from the shops with a bag of pasta. And that was just my next door neighbour, Hazel.
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I tried to make it cost £69 but when she said we didn’t need bacon I failed
 
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Marty

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  • Mar 31, 2020
  • #393
Just played Corona roulette, Sainsbury's was empty but the shelves are full, not much tinned, baking stuff, but loads of everything else.

£1.03 a litre of fuel now, stupidly cheap.
 
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fernandopartridge

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  • Mar 31, 2020
  • #394
Marty said:
Just played Corona roulette, Sainsbury's was empty but the shelves are full, not much tinned, baking stuff, but loads of everything else.

£1.03 a litre of fuel now, stupidly cheap.
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Funny thing is nobody is doing any miles, i might go and fill the tank up.
 
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Sky_Blue_Daz

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  • Mar 31, 2020
  • #395
They were queuing outside Aldi at 07:45 this morning
 

David O'Day

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  • Mar 31, 2020
  • #396
Sky_Blue_Daz said:
They were queuing outside Aldi at 07:45 this morning
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That's also though, last bastion of the panic buyer. Seen smallish queues at other supermarkets but it seems more civilised
 
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OffenhamSkyBlue

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  • Mar 31, 2020
  • #397
David O'Day said:
That's also though, last bastion of the panic buyer. Seen smallish queues at other supermarkets but it seems more civilised
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Aldi down here was virtually deserted at 9.30 today. And well stocked for most things, seemingly. Lidl's car park was almost empty - Morrison's looked a bit busier.
 

shmmeee

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  • Mar 31, 2020
  • #398
OffenhamSkyBlue said:
Aldi down here was virtually deserted at 9.30 today. And well stocked for most things, seemingly. Lidl's car park was almost empty - Morrison's looked a bit busier.
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Hellohellohello is driving round checking supermarket car parks an essential journey sir?
 

RegTheDonk

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  • Mar 31, 2020
  • #399
Marty said:
Just played Corona roulette, Sainsbury's was empty but the shelves are full, not much tinned, baking stuff, but loads of everything else.

£1.03 a litre of fuel now, stupidly cheap.
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I guess a lack of demand for petrol? Somone said it's more expensive to shut down and then re-open the refining process than to give the end product away cheap. Fill 'yer boots, erm tank.
 

Grendel

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  • Mar 31, 2020
  • #400
RegTheDonk said:
I guess a lack of demand for petrol? Somone said it's more expensive to shut down and then re-open the refining process than to give the end product away cheap. Fill 'yer boots, erm tank.
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Oil prices crashed a few weeks ago
 
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Deleted member 4439

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  • Mar 31, 2020
  • #401
RegTheDonk said:
I guess a lack of demand for petrol?
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Demand is a contributory factor but it's mainly supply-side - Saudi's are dumping oil on the market as part of their oil war with US and Russia. It's been around 50 dollars pb for crude over the last two years - touched 20 dollars yesterday but is up 15-20% today on news that US and Russia are about to enter preliminary talks.
 
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OffenhamSkyBlue

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  • Mar 31, 2020
  • #402
shmmeee said:
Hellohellohello is driving round checking supermarket car parks an essential journey sir?
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Busted!

Your honour, here's the map of my journey from home (just off the top of the map) to Aldi. Don't know how much we are obliged to go to the nearest available supermarket or if we can choose (Aldi have preferred brands of some stuff).

 
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shmmeee

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  • Mar 31, 2020
  • #403
OffenhamSkyBlue said:
Busted!

Your honour, here's the map of my journey from home (just off the top of the map) to Aldi. Don't know how much we are obliged to go to the nearest available supermarket or if we can choose (Aldi have preferred brands of some stuff).

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I was wondering this. What if I really like Waitrose stuff, at I OK to travel to Kenilworth or do I have to start shopping at Asda cos it’s closest?
 
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tommydazzle

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  • Mar 31, 2020
  • #404
Waitrose has always practiced social distancing
 
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OffenhamSkyBlue

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  • Mar 31, 2020
  • #405
tommydazzle said:
Waitrose has always practiced social distancing
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That’s the class divide, Tommy!
 

Otis

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  • Mar 31, 2020
  • #406
Yup.

Whenever I go to Waitrose I always make sure I have my cravat on.
 
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tommydazzle

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  • Apr 1, 2020
  • #407
Yes, read a joke somewhere that Waitrose had brought in new restrictions and were only delivering to people who lived in council tax properties F and above.

(Must admit actually like shopping in my local Waitrose)
 

clint van damme

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  • Apr 1, 2020
  • #408
tommydazzle said:
Yes, read a joke somewhere that Waitrose had brought in new restrictions and were only delivering to people who lived in council tax properties F and above.

(Must admit actually like shopping in my local Waitrose)
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Never shopped there but enrolled the other day to try and get an online slot but none available.
Had a browse of their website, didn't think they're as expensive as people make out.
 

tommydazzle

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  • Apr 1, 2020
  • #409
I think they price match brands anyway but I just like the shop - bright and airy, never seems crowded and lots of high quality and ethical stuff.
 

Otis

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  • Apr 1, 2020
  • #410
tommydazzle said:
I think they price match brands anyway but I just like the shop - bright and airy, never seems crowded and lots of high quality and ethical stuff.
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And unethical people.
 

Nick

Administrator
  • Apr 1, 2020
  • #411
My local shop has a big delivery of scented toilet roll. Bonus.
 
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Grendel

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  • Apr 1, 2020
  • #412
clint van damme said:
Never shopped there but enrolled the other day to try and get an online slot but none available.
Had a browse of their website, didn't think they're as expensive as people make out.
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They are not that expensive
 

dutchman

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  • Apr 1, 2020
  • #413
Nick said:
My local shop has a big delivery of scented toilet roll. Bonus.
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There's never been a shortage of those around here, I was amazed!
 
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OffenhamSkyBlue

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  • Apr 1, 2020
  • #414
Grendel said:
They are not that expensive
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A bit more than some, but their "Essentials" range is just as cheap as you'll get anywhere, and their pizzas are FINE. They sell quite a lot of specialist (aka poncey) items, which command a premium.
 
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Otis

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  • Apr 1, 2020
  • #415
Antibacterial gel now back in stock.
 

Nick

Administrator
  • Apr 1, 2020
  • #416
dutchman said:
There's never been a shortage of those around here, I was amazed!
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Proper cheap stuff, smells like a granny.
 
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OffenhamSkyBlue

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  • Apr 1, 2020
  • #417
Nick said:
Proper cheap stuff, smells like a granny.
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Presumably only AFTER you've pissed on it???
 

1nilandwe...

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  • Apr 1, 2020
  • #418
Anybody seen any bread flour/instant yeast anywhere?
 

Mcbean

Well-Known Member
  • Apr 1, 2020
  • #419
Flour definitely in short supply because of all the people who panic bought bread which went mouldy and is now in the green bin - we freeze all our bread which means a couple of loaves can last a fair time ( there’s only two of us)! Our farm shop has 12kg bag of flour if you need it for those regular bakers - yeast was short but now available local to here
 

Nick

Administrator
  • Apr 1, 2020
  • #420
People can live without bread surely?

Have batches instead
 
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