There is no more panic buying....why?

Because there is nothing left to buy!

Look at all the photos of empty shelves!

And yesterday, the pensioners, were very upset, they didn't get what they needed due to the empty shelves.

So it's now officially.....panic searching!

Sophia wrote on Mar 18^th, 2020 at 1:48pm:


I was about and about today and went right past my fav wholesale butcher, it was fully stocked with as much meat as you want. I got the exact same about of mince that I buy whenever I go there, 3kgs.

On my way back I ducked into Harris Farm as we are totally out of fruit and veg. Fully stocked but the prices were eye watering. The meat section was sold out tho, I told a few people who were hovering near the meat section about the wholesaler and they were very happy.

Sophia wrote on Mar 18^th, 2020 at 1:48pm:



I've been paying attention to what the average person is buying

and discovered they're buying their normal shopping, in the main

I've seen Asians in groups with trolleys stacked high with, for example, dozens of tins of beans and of bulk bottled water, running a convoy with others in their family pushing trolleys of other bulk items

but the average Aussie buyer seems to have one or two of this … usual shopping

So I enquired at the desk --- 'Where are all the veggies, the meat and chicken, the bread and milk' ? 

Why would there be no veggies, I asked, when you have stacked cold rooms and most of the stuff in the bins is months old anyway?  Did the coldrooms break down?  Or did your buyers decide not to go to the markets suddenly?   Potatoes for example --- you don't put them on sale fresh from the farms .. you store them.  So how come suddenly there aren't any?

and the usual log-head at the desk, barely 18 and convinced that a $150 thousand uni bill will magically turn her into a model or brain surgeon, shook her empty head.  No idea and couldn't care because she's convinced this is just a temporary job and in a few years she'll be earning bucket loads

So, as result of equally fruitless enquiries elsewhere, I'm persuaded now that supermarkets are deliberately withholding stock in order to create panic buying and to contribute to media panic stories about 'food running low'

it doesn't make financial sense.  Although of course, people seeing empty shelves will buy all that overpriced, hard to sell stock that usually sits there untouched for months at a time

but … who'd hoard fruit and veg?  It's perishable

and surely people aren't out buying several freezers in which to hoard?

Is this the same country which --- according to the media and experts only a few weeks ago --- didn't have a thousand dollars between themselves and brokenness?

so have we seen a dramatic upsurge in the sale of freezers?

if not, where are they hoarding frozen goods, breads, meats, etc., all of which have a very limited shelf life?

So which is true:   supermarkets are deliberately withholding stock to ramp up panic  --- or people are eating five times their usual amount and 'hoarding' foods in their guts (which also have limited holding capacity)

Time Morrison sent in the armed forces


to pick fruit and veg

to bake bread

to take over the loo roll factories


national emergency

Sir Spot of Borg wrote on Mar 18^th, 2020 at 2:48pm:



Yep.  Looking suss alright

How often has the media told us that the apples in supermarket bins were separated from the tree a year, even two years, before?

same with most fruit a veg.  And supermarkets have massive cold storage in which to hold all that produce, doling it out a little at a time when the in-store bins run low

but now … fruit and veg in short supply, despite those massive cold storage depots and facilities.  Even though fruit and veg are perishables.  And despite that today's refrigerators have limited capacity and despite I haven't read of panic buying of household freezers and despite fruit and veg don't hold up well to freezing, which is why they're described as perishable

Then … did Australian producers of Australian canned fruit and veg turn off their factories?

Did Aussie breadmakers and bakers turn off their ovens or switch them and staff to half power?

Did abattoirs close?

Did the massive uncooked chicken suppliers close?

Did toilet roll mills close, or switch to half power?

What's going to happen when people are queueing two hours for petrol?

What will be the excuse for turning off the power and gas?

In the US, Walmarts is reportedly under attack and being ransacked

Someone stabbed a supermarket attendant in Australia yesterday

and a blind woman in a supermarket was robbed of her toilet paper

women fighting tooth and nail over toilet paper

how long before the trustworthy media reports car-jackings for the sake of two bags of groceries?

when will the media report old age pensioners being robbed for groceries in the street?



But WHERE are the dead corona victims?

and as the Americans are asking openly now, with very few believable responses:  who do you know who ACTUALLY has corona?

Italy's claiming a couple of thousand but conveniently has the population locked down and unable to attend the supposed funerals

Will this escalate?

or will the powers that be admit they bit off more than they could chew, once they come down from their coke hits and call the sham off?

And how soon before people who indulged in hoarding rather than pay rent and mortgage begin to try to flog off their hoards on Gumtree and ebay?

Also, hope Aldis, Woolies and Coles are ready for some very slow months of trading as people doggedly chow down on all that hoarded pasta and rice before winter's mice get into it

I gather Woolies are advertising for staff to stack shelves of a night, paying peanuts so only monkies will apply no doubt!

Sophia wrote on Mar 18^th, 2020 at 12:33pm: