Supermarket Stock - avoid the virus hysteria

Larbre34 · 08-03-2020 11:07pm #1

On Friday it took me trips to 4 different shops before I found toilet roll in stock. I'm sure you have noticed similar and the same goes for dried and tinned foods.

It may come down to rationing of certain goods, but until this mass stupidity ends, please post your notices of goods IN STOCK around D15. I'll start.

As of 7pm there was packs of 18 bog roll in Lidl Clonee.

murphyebass · 08-03-2020 11:30pm

Larbre34 wrote: »

On Friday it took me trips to 4 different shops before I found toilet roll in stock. I'm sure you have noticed similar and the same goes for dried and tinned foods.

It may come down to rationing of certain goods, but until this mass stupidity ends, please post your notices of goods IN STOCK around D15. I'll start.

As of 7pm there was packs of 18 bog roll in Lidl Clonee.

I’m not sure it is hysteria tbh. This is going to get real in the coming months. Those who don’t prepare will be in trouble. The bog roll one is odd. A certain amount to see you through isolation yes but it’s the flu not the runs.

The more worrying thing is there’s no soap anywhere never mind hand sanitiser. Both are like gold dust. I’ll be looking in the city tomorrow as both Lidl and aldi have been devoid of such products for about a week now in Clonee.

Phil.x · 08-03-2020 11:31pm

Larbre34 wrote: »

On Friday it took me trips to 4 different shops before I found toilet roll in stock. I'm sure you have noticed similar and the same goes for dried and tinned foods.

It may come down to rationing of certain goods, but until this mass stupidity ends, please post your notices of goods IN STOCK around D15. I'll start.

As of 7pm there was packs of 18 bog roll in Lidl Clonee.

Loads in ongar dunnes at 6.45pm today, so much so I didn't panic buy any.

Larbre34 · 08-03-2020 11:35pm

Let's not debate the bigger issue, just reports of stock of scarce goods please.

08-03-2020 11:35pm

Tesco Roselawn was fine earlier today (around 1pm), they had everything except hand sanitizer. A lot better than it was a few days ago.

Former Former · 08-03-2020 11:43pm

Is this thread not likely to cause the exact thing it's supposed to prevent?

Larbre34 · 08-03-2020 11:57pm

Former Former wrote: »

Is this thread not likely to cause the exact thing it's supposed to prevent?

My guess would be there are max 20-30 active posters on the D15 forum, so no, probably not. Besides thats what Facebook is for.

But it might save those of us that do come here some petrol and grief.

TheValeyard · 09-03-2020 9:50am

Did shopping in Lidl Castleknock last night. No shortage of anything. No bigger crowd than usual.

ciaran76 · 09-03-2020 10:36am

Larbre34 wrote: »

On Friday it took me trips to 4 different shops before I found toilet roll in stock. I'm sure you have noticed similar and the same goes for dried and tinned foods.

It may come down to rationing of certain goods, but until this mass stupidity ends, please post your notices of goods IN STOCK around D15. I'll start.

As of 7pm there was packs of 18 bog roll in Lidl Clonee.

Aldi in Clonee was fine on Saturday morning. Plenty of bog roll.

Pat Dunne · 09-03-2020 1:10pm

This Bog Roll hysteria, is giving me the Sh1ts.

Unlike Covid 19 which doesn’t!

Hurrache · 09-03-2020 1:52pm

Doesn't this thread do the opposite of what's it intended to do, feed into the hysteria?

Edit, yeah, that point already made.

Nolimits · 09-03-2020 7:45pm

Plenty of Toilet rolls in Dunnes over the center today, not much pasta but there was some spaghetti and some of the simply better pasta

Pat Dunne · 09-03-2020 7:49pm

Nolimits wrote: »

Plenty of Toilet rolls in Dunnes over the center today, not much pasta but there was some spaghetti and some of the simply better pasta

Spaghetti is Pasta

LorelaiG · 09-03-2020 10:47pm

Pat Dunne wrote: »

Spaghetti is Pasta

Not the right type of pasta

Nolimits · 10-03-2020 1:49am

Pat Dunne wrote: »

Spaghetti is Pasta

Yeah I know, that's why I said there's not much but there is some spaghetti and simply better pasta.

Unless you also thought that I didn't know simply better pasta was pasta either?

ongarite · 12-03-2020 2:04pm

Hysteria here now. Shop shelves are being stripped clean

Muppet Man · 12-03-2020 3:22pm

Dunnes in Ongar at lunch time was basically inaccessible. Absolute madness. I only wen for a hot chicken roll. Walked out again after 30 seconds. Queue went from the checkouts to half way down the store to cold fridge areas. PEOPLE. STOP!

LorelaiG · 12-03-2020 3:24pm

FFS people need to calm the fudge down.

rolling boh · 12-03-2020 3:25pm

some crowd in dunnes this morning almost like x mas in the food section

Muppet Man · 12-03-2020 3:53pm

Supermarkets making bumper profits out of this Id say.

miamee · 12-03-2020 3:53pm

Hopefully all of these people will be fully stocked for a few days and the rest of us can get our normal shopping in peace!

rolling boh · 12-03-2020 4:11pm

i think grocery shopping for a while will be a bit of an ordeal allow plenty of time

raheny red · 12-03-2020 5:53pm

Larbre34 knew!

Doyler92 · 12-03-2020 6:06pm

miamee wrote: »

Hopefully all of these people will be fully stocked for a few days and the rest of us can get our normal shopping in peace!

The government and some of the supermarkets have said nobody needs to panic buy and the warehouses are fully stocked. The slow part is the deliveries.

Ferm001 · 12-03-2020 6:18pm

Was shopping in a discount store in Armagh this afternoon, tried to buy 3 cans of chopped tomatoes. Girl at counter said restrictions put in place at start of the week, and could only sell me 2 of them. :eek:

Caranica · 12-03-2020 11:02pm

Was in Blanchardstown centre this evening, didn't go as far as Dunnes but in general the centre was so quiet. I picked up a few nice bits in M&S, they were fully stocked other than toilet paper but they had kitchen roll in the gaps so shelves looked full. No queues either.

Was over in West End, dealz was averagely busy but Lidl looked manic.

Tzardine · 12-03-2020 11:04pm

I was in the local butchers earlier.

He had eight legs of venison on special but I couldn't get them. They were two deer.

Foggy Jew · 12-03-2020 11:27pm

Tzardine wrote: »

I was in the local butchers earlierht legs of venison on special but I couldn't get them. They were two deer.

There's always one

Polar101 · 13-03-2020 6:22am

miamee wrote: »

Hopefully all of these people will be fully stocked for a few days and the rest of us can get our normal shopping in peace!

I wonder how many people got the virus when they all crammed into a supermarket to buy things they didn't need.

Larbre34 · 13-03-2020 11:39am

Polar101 wrote: »

I wonder how many people got the virus when they all crammed into a supermarket to buy things they didn't need.

Indeed.

I haven't been great at stocking up myself, but am hoping that most freezers will be crammed in the next day or two and it will ease off.

I tend to agree that there should be reasonable rationing of high demand stuff so at least those who queue for hours have some hope of getting the basics. I picked up a few things for my mother near her house yesterday and saw a woman in her 60s leave the shop with 6 x 24 packs of TP. Utter nonsense.

ongarite · 13-03-2020 6:13pm

I was in Dunnes in Blanch SC this afternoon.
Very quiet and very good stock levels.
Reckon the hysteria has died down and people will fall into their new routine pretty soon.

miamee · 13-03-2020 6:40pm

ongarite wrote: »

I was in Dunnes in Blanch SC this afternoon.
Very quiet and very good stock levels.
Reckon the hysteria has died down and people will fall into their new routine pretty soon.

Good to hear that as there was a queue outside the door waiting for them to open at 9o'clock this morning, the same in Tesco Roselawn (I was sent videos/photos of both this morning).

Larbre34 · 13-03-2020 8:29pm

Roselawn had practically nothing at 5.30pm, apparently had been mad up to about 3pm when they ran out of everything.

ongarite · 13-03-2020 9:43pm

Larbre34 wrote: »

Roselawn had practically nothing at 5.30pm, apparently had been mad up to about 3pm when they ran out of everything.

Maybe people are afraid of going to the SC because it's a big space which should have lots of people around.

I was there around 4 and it was like a ghost mall.

Saying that please support local business in D15. It would be a shame to have this crisis devastate the area.

Larbre34 · 13-03-2020 10:29pm

You're absolutely right, but I work in Dun Laoghaire and the story is identical everywhere, busy supermarkets and pharmacies, with deserted other shops, cafés, salons etc. It will be a huge task to moth ball the economy for the duration, but hopefully activity will pick up again sooner rather than later.

tamara25 · 13-03-2020 10:36pm

Doomsday preppers anyone?

RoryMac · 14-03-2020 12:57pm

Larbre34 wrote: »

Roselawn had practically nothing at 5.30pm, apparently had been mad up to about 3pm when they ran out of everything.

Roselawn always looks like it has been ransacked but yeah shelves were a little less full yesterday.

rockatansky · 14-03-2020 2:08pm

Was at Dunnes at the Blanch center at about 08.30 this morning. About 100+ people queueing outside but once the shutters went up everyone was inside on about 2 minutes.

Was grand, about 15-20 minutes wait at the checkout.

Only issue was the number of people at the fruit and veg section, very crowded with a lot of grabbing stuff from the shelves and bumping into other trolleys going on. But that's down to the terrible design of that section, it's like that on a normal Saturday or Sunday. Don't know what they were thinking with it. Once you get through it then it freed up.

rolling boh · 14-03-2020 2:19pm

Was in dunnes around 10 this morning seemed more or less like a usual sat .would agree fruit and veg section always a bit clogged up that never changes .Hopefully Tesco in roselawn ok tomorrow morning.

Dr_Colossus · 14-03-2020 2:24pm

Was in Tesco, Roselawn this morning at around 10:30. Busy but probably not much more so than a normal Sat. They said they had a good number of people queuing before they opened at 07:00.
Generally plenty of stock of most items apart from the fresh fish and freezer section which was fairly well cleaned out. They even had a decent selection of bread from their bakery section and good to see all items individually bagged and sealed before being put in display baskets.

rolling boh · 14-03-2020 2:29pm

Seems tesco ok for tomorrow least won't have to spend all morning doing a bit of grocery shopping .

TheValeyard · 14-03-2020 2:32pm

I dont get the panic. Maybe for specialist items. We make enough food to feed over 9million and we make toilet paper????

Supply chains are running smoothly.

Daily restock happen, some shops up to eight times a day.

People need to relax or an awful lot of food is going into the compost bin.

Pat Dunne · 14-03-2020 5:23pm

TheValeyard wrote: »

I dont get the panic. Maybe for specialist items. We make enough food to feed over 9million and we make toilet paper????

Supply chains are running smoothly.

Daily restock happen, some shops up to eight times a day.

People need to relax or an awful lot of food is going into the compost bin.

Two manufacturers of Toilet paper in Ireland. With the raw materials been sourced in the Middle East and Portugal https://www.irishtimes.com/news/ireland/irish-news/coronavirus-toilet-paper-manufacturer-struggles-to-meet-unprecedented-demand-1.4202511

Larbre34 · 14-03-2020 5:32pm

Nobody gets the panic, but once one or two pricks do it, it forces everyone into doing similar to save themselves endless wasted trips to the shops.

I know the idea of rationing adds to upset, but if every big chain agreed a limit of one high-demand item per person, per day, it would take the heat out of it and get people back to more regular consumption patterns.

14-03-2020 6:18pm

Lidl in Blakestown wasn't great today. They had plenty of bread and bakery stuff, but very little milk except for the big 3L bottles, absolutely no pasta, cereal, toilet roll or hand wash. Loads of other items either out of stock or very low stock. I went around 1pm. Clearly all the early shoppers blitzed the place.

Larbre34 · 14-03-2020 9:06pm

Lidl in Clonee poor enough generally this evening, dreadful in fact. Aldi Clonee much better, just shortage of chicken, pasta and antibacterial products but a good selection of everything else. Both had plentiful bog roll!

I guess the trick for popular fresh meats and the like is hit the bigger shops like Dunnes Blanch and Tesco Extra early in the mornings.

rolling boh · 15-03-2020 11:02am

Definitely more shoppers around roselawn this morning tesco busy enough but not manic .Shelves a bit empty in places things like rice seem to be low .

Snake Plisken · 15-03-2020 11:57am

Anyone been in Supervalu? How busy is it and how well stocked?

RoryMac · 15-03-2020 1:21pm

Snake Plisken wrote: »

Anyone been in Supervalu? How busy is it and how well stocked?

I was there twice yesterday and no busier than it ever is on a Sat. Didn't notice any shortages of anything but was only picking up a few bits for dinner

Arciphel · 15-03-2020 4:01pm

I'm just back from SuperValu in Blanchardstown. The only thing I saw out of stock was hand wash, and even then there was plenty of bars of soap and shower gel which you could use instead. Everything else looked absolutely normal.

Larbre34 · 15-03-2020 7:24pm

If you can't get medicated or antibacterial handwash, you can add an amount of milton fluid to a regular liquid soap and it will be very effective.

It is an astringent though, so remember to regular moisturise the paws regular.

Supermarket Stock - avoid the virus hysteria

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