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    #452
    kippy
    Registered Users Posts: 18,518 ✭✭✭✭kippy


    Pretty much all of the online shops from Tesco/Supervalue etc have been down for the past hour.
    Yes - the panic has well and truly began.


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    #453
    CrankyHaus
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,281 ✭✭✭CrankyHaus


    Had the same experience at 3 supermarkets that I dropped by after lunch. All full car parks. Didn't bother going into any.
    This is just the idiots panicking after schools were suspended. The panic buying will blow over soon. Even in worst affected countries the supply network for virtually everything apart from sanitisers and protective equipment has remained intact.


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    #454
    Seamai
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,250 ✭✭✭Seamai


    Cuddlesworth wrote: »
    Bloke in front of me had two trolleys of food, including 20 carrot cakes. I'm trying to get my head around how long it takes to go through 20 carrot cakes, even in a place that likes them.

    Imagine the state of his skin (and innards) after eating all those.


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    #455
    adocholiday
    Registered Users Posts: 1,863 ✭✭✭adocholiday


    Give it a few days. People are losing their minds now but once people have stocked up and the next deliveries arrive in the shops it'll be grand. The supply chains are good. A friend of mine works in the supply network for a large chain. He said they have warehouses full of stuff it's getting it delivered that's the slow bit.


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    #456
    Captain Red Beard
    Registered Users Posts: 871 ✭✭✭Captain Red Beard


    Plenty of vegan foods still on the shelves.


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    #457
    endacl
    Registered Users Posts: 22,275 ✭✭✭✭endacl


    Hope they’re panic buying condoms as well to prevent the spawning of future generations of stupid.


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    #458
    tdf7187
    Registered Users Posts: 1,597 ✭✭✭tdf7187


    The time has come to crack each others' heads open and feast on the goo inside.


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    #459
    Deebles McBeebles
    Registered Users Posts: 5,777 ✭✭✭Deebles McBeebles


    Same deal here, had to walk out of 2 supermarkets, all I wanted was a f*cking sambo!


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    #460
    tdf7187
    Registered Users Posts: 1,597 ✭✭✭tdf7187


    Captain Red Beard wrote: »
    Plenty of vegan foods still on the shelves.

    That's because all the vegans have already succumbed to the Panic. Most of them are so weak they would blow away in a strong gust of wind.


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    #461
    partyguinness
    Registered Users Posts: 8,207 ✭✭✭partyguinness


    No need to panic but


    WE


    ARE


    ALL


    GOING


    TO






    GET A BAD COLD


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    #462
    AMKC
    Registered Users Posts: 15,808 ✭✭✭✭AMKC
    Ms


    Same here. You would swear it was Christmas or something absolutely crazy. There was even a woman wearing a mask in the shop.

    Live long and Prosper

    Peace and long life.



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    #463
    [Deleted User]
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    Each morning the stocks will magically replenish, who would have thunk it. I'll wait a few days for the craven idiocy to subside, then carry on with my shopping as normal.


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    #464
    Deebles McBeebles
    Registered Users Posts: 5,777 ✭✭✭Deebles McBeebles


    Captain Red Beard wrote: »
    Plenty of vegan foods still on the shelves.


    Proof that its just the idiots panicking.


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    #465
    Raconteuse
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,817 ✭✭✭Raconteuse


    Lol at the carrot cakes. A cafe I presume.


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    #466
    Topgear on Dave
    Registered Users Posts: 4,545 ✭✭✭Topgear on Dave


    Captain Red Beard wrote: »
    Plenty of vegan foods still on the shelves.

    I'd rather eat the toilet rolls.


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    #467
    Cuddlesworth
    Registered Users Posts: 13,983 ✭✭✭✭Cuddlesworth


    CrankyHaus wrote: »
    Had the same experience at 3 supermarkets that I dropped by after lunch. All full car parks. Didn't bother going into any.
    This is just the idiots panicking after schools were suspended. The panic buying will blow over soon. Even in worst affected countries the supply network for virtually everything apart from sanitisers and protective equipment has remained intact.

    I shouted at some bloke with his sandwich in hand to go in front of me. Queue was 10 people deep with multiple trolleys. Poor bastard would have been there for half a hour just to get some lunch.

    A bloody 60 seater bus of old people was pulling up outside with a horde heading into the shops.

    The security guy was having people queue to get in.

    Cars parking on pavements or just left with hazards on in the middle of the car park.

    I just wanted to get some tea bags and stuff for dinner tonight. The panic got to me though, so I ran off to get the rest of the carrot cakes. That guy was clearly onto something.


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    #468
    GBX
    Registered Users Posts: 11,942 ✭✭✭✭GBX


    Its like the shops around Christmas eve - shops will be restocked in a day or so.


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    #469
    REXER
    Registered Users Posts: 458 ✭✭REXER


    Captain Red Beard wrote: »
    Plenty of vegan foods still on the shelves.

    I fully understand that, if you are trying to keep ahead of Covid 19 you have got to eat healthy! :D


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    #470
    Pauliedragon
    Registered Users Posts: 2,620 ✭✭✭Pauliedragon


    AMKC wrote: »
    Same here. You would swear it was Christmas or something absolutely crazy. There was even a woman wearing a mask in the shop.
    She might think it's Halloween as she's delirious from the fever.


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    #471
    punisher5112
    Registered Users Posts: 24,647 ✭✭✭✭punisher5112


    AMKC wrote: »
    Same here. You would swear it was Christmas or something absolutely crazy. There was even a woman wearing a mask in the shop.

    That's nothing, have passengers getting on the bus with gloves and masks....

    Last week seen driver on the 15 with mask and gloves too


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    #472
    tscul32
    Registered Users Posts: 2,545 ✭✭✭tscul32


    I need to get a tin of chopped tomatoes for tonight's curry. Think I'll try a Spar and hope for the best.


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    #473
    Mister Vain
    Registered Users Posts: 6,055 ✭✭✭Mister Vain


    endacl wrote: »
    Hope they’re panic buying condoms as well to prevent the spawning of future generations of stupid.
    :D The film Idiocracy comes to mind. :pac:


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    #474
    Day Lewin
    Registered Users Posts: 4,643 ✭✭✭Day Lewin


    I bought an extra bag of spuds. There's two bags of porridge oats at home, plus loads of flour. Plenty of onions and tinned peas.

    Bars of soap for washing anything and old newspaper for the bumbums.

    Bring on the war, I'm ready.


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    #475
    daheff
    Registered Users Posts: 5,853 ✭✭✭daheff


    AMKC wrote: »
    Same here. You would swear it was Christmas or something absolutely crazy. There was even a woman wearing a mask in the shop.

    What, like for Halloween? Isn't it a bit early for that?


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    #476
    Cuddlesworth
    Registered Users Posts: 13,983 ✭✭✭✭Cuddlesworth


    tscul32 wrote: »
    I need to get a tin of chopped tomatoes for tonight's curry. Think I'll try a Spar and hope for the best.

    If you can't get any, give me a shout. I'll trade you a can for two toilet rolls and your firstborn.


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    #477
    CrankyHaus
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,281 ✭✭✭CrankyHaus


    Cuddlesworth wrote: »
    I shouted at some bloke with his sandwich in hand to go in front of me. Queue was 10 people deep with multiple trolleys. Poor bastard would have been there for half a hour just to get some lunch.

    A bloody 60 seater bus of old people was pulling up outside with a horde heading into the shops.

    The security guy was having people queue to get in.

    Cars parking on pavements or just left with hazards on in the middle of the car park.

    I just wanted to get some tea bags and stuff for dinner tonight. The panic got to me though, so I ran off to get the rest of the carrot cakes. That guy was clearly onto something.


    Fair play. I just wanted beer for the weekend in, they're doing a nice deal on hop house in Aldi at the mo.


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    #478
    ITman88
    Registered Users Posts: 876 ✭✭✭ITman88


    Aldi Tullamore like a scene from Aleppo, the parking of car’s was how I imagine a blindfolded toddler would drive.
    Trolleys packed with food, and bottles of wine, someone is doing good business here!


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    #479
    Mister Vain
    Registered Users Posts: 6,055 ✭✭✭Mister Vain


    All we need now is a good auld snow storm.


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    #480
    Sleepy
    Registered Users Posts: 24,196 ✭✭✭✭Sleepy


    My brother's a self-employed musician so his employment prospects aren't looking good for the next month and my mother works as a tour guide on cruise ships so is expecting her next few gigs to be cancelled.


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    #481
    stevedublin
    Registered Users Posts: 979 ✭✭✭stevedublin


    Seamai wrote: »
    Imagine the state of his skin (and innards) after eating all those.

    It will have a healthy orange glow.


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