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Re: Hows the panic buying going?
Reply #1230 - Mar 26^th, 2020 at 8:57am

Gnads wrote on Mar 26^th, 2020 at 8:54am:

when we have Asians buying & hoarding that, & other products including medicines & tablets like Panadol, hand sanitizer, masks, baby formula(still) etc etc ........ & containerising it to try & ship it back to China as a profit making venture.

Good job the Govt. Fed Police & Police are taking a dim view of this & are now going to crack down.

That assertion isn't really backed up by the evidence

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No evidence whatsoever it can be attributed to George Orwell or Eric Arthur Blair (in fact the same guy)

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Sir Spot of Borg Gold Member Offline WE ARE BORG Posts: 26513 Australia	Re: Hows the panic buying going? Reply #1231 - Mar 26^th, 2020 at 9:24am YAY! Got a 20-pack of toilet paper - should last a couple weeks - hopefully Spot
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greggerypeccary Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 139758 Gender:	Re: Hows the panic buying going? Reply #1232 - Mar 26^th, 2020 at 10:02am Sir Spot of Borg wrote on Mar 26^th, 2020 at 9:24am: YAY! Got a 20-pack of toilet paper - should last a couple weeks - hopefully Spot
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Sir Spot of Borg Gold Member Offline WE ARE BORG Posts: 26513 Australia	Re: Hows the panic buying going? Reply #1233 - Mar 26^th, 2020 at 10:13am Actually cant get milk today. went to several shops. Apparently the deliveries havent shown up. Great - now i have TP but no milk for coffee Spot
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chimera Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 12074 Armidale Gender:	Re: Hows the panic buying going? Reply #1234 - Mar 26^th, 2020 at 10:18am 1 1/2 rolls a day. Do you have vaseline and local anaesthetic?
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Sir Spot of Borg Gold Member Offline WE ARE BORG Posts: 26513 Australia	Re: Hows the panic buying going? Reply #1235 - Mar 26^th, 2020 at 10:22am chimera wrote on Mar 26^th, 2020 at 10:18am: 1 1/2 rolls a day. Do you have vaseline and local anaesthetic? This is a large household Spot
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President Elect, The Mechanic Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 17501 Gender:	Re: Hows the panic buying going? Reply #1236 - Mar 26^th, 2020 at 12:17pm greggerypeccary wrote on Mar 25^th, 2020 at 1:59pm: Four cartons? So, what about next week? I've taken your advice groggy...thanks
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Prime Minister for Canyons Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 26906 Canberra Gender:	Re: Hows the panic buying going? Reply #1237 - Mar 26^th, 2020 at 12:20pm President Elect, The Mechanic wrote on Mar 26^th, 2020 at 12:17pm: greggerypeccary wrote on Mar 25^th, 2020 at 1:59pm: Four cartons? So, what about next week? I've taken your advice groggy...thanks dry heaves
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President Elect, The Mechanic Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 17501 Gender:	Re: Hows the panic buying going? Reply #1238 - Mar 26^th, 2020 at 12:21pm I see that you spotted that water bumcrack..
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Prime Minister for Canyons Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 26906 Canberra Gender:	Re: Hows the panic buying going? Reply #1239 - Mar 26^th, 2020 at 12:23pm President Elect, The Mechanic wrote on Mar 26^th, 2020 at 12:21pm: I see that you spotted that water bumcrack.. Quite literally water. Why not try something with taste? I mean its not even a pale ale, its false advertising
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Reply #1240 - Mar 26^th, 2020 at 12:34pm

Sir Spot of Borg wrote on Mar 26^th, 2020 at 10:13am:

Actually cant get milk today. went to several shops. Apparently the deliveries havent shown up.

Great - now i have TP but no milk for coffee

Spot

That’s why you should have a carton of long life milk handy. For times when milk runs out, or visitors pop in.
I have a pack of 6 small ones so I have milk available for my coffee if fresh milk runs out.
I hadn’t looked to see if long life milk was panic bought.

I returned a DVD to my local IGA to that DVD kiosk (only $1 each to hire!)
We watched that true story Ford vs Ferrari. Great film.

Anyway, I love to walk and look at what’s happening in store.
Well, heaps of fruit and veges, heaps of meat and chicken.
Heaps of frozen veges too.
But no loo paper, or tissues, or paper towels.
I bought a small pack frozen baby peas.
And less people thank goodness!
Seems it’s back to normal in my local area.
Where all them extra people came from earlier I don’t know.

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chimera Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 12074 Armidale Gender:	Re: Hows the panic buying going? Reply #1241 - Mar 26^th, 2020 at 12:34pm Sir Spot of Borg wrote on Mar 26^th, 2020 at 10:22am: This is a large household Spot You're squatting at Bondi pavilion?
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Re: Hows the panic buying going?
Reply #1242 - Mar 26^th, 2020 at 4:31pm

Carl D wrote on Mar 26^th, 2020 at 12:27am:

UnSubRocky wrote on Mar 26^th, 2020 at 12:19am:

Are the stores stocking the shelves with toilet paper and there is still a rush to get them? Because 3 weeks into this madness, people are still needing to buy more. I get the feeling that the stores have been holding back, under govt instructions to give people something to worry.

Don't know about anywhere else but Woolworths at Belmont Forum shopping centre had no toilet rolls or paper towels (or pasta, etc.) when I was in there just before lunchtime Wednesday.

The lady on the checkout said they were all gone by about 9am - again. I didn't bother checking Coles or Aldi because I'm sure they wouldn't have had any either (I didn't need any btw).

Dad, being a senior, got in for his buy of toilet paper last week. I told him that I was stocked until the year 2021 -- a whole 8 rolls (plus the two spare from the last packet).

Just an hour ago, I was in Stocklands Woolworths. The shelves were still bare. That is three weeks of empty shelves for toilet paper.

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Grappler Deep State Feller Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 85434 Always was always will be HOME Gender:	Re: Hows the panic buying going? Reply #1243 - Mar 26^th, 2020 at 4:38pm Got milk yesterday - plenty here. Off to the shops for dog roll, Indian Tonic Water (quinine), and takeaway fish 'n chips.
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Re: Hows the panic buying going?
Reply #1244 - Mar 26^th, 2020 at 4:38pm

cods wrote on Mar 26^th, 2020 at 6:52am:

UnSubRocky wrote on Mar 26^th, 2020 at 12:19am:

Are the stores stocking the shelves with toilet paper and there is still a rush to get them? Because 3 weeks into this madness, people are still needing to buy more. I get the feeling that the stores have been holding back, under govt instructions to give people something to worry.

seriously unsub... Roll Eyes

its the morons that cause the PANIC BUYING>...

.what the hell has toilet paper got to so with covid-19??????...

its WEIRD!

It is either the shops not stocking up 3 times a day because of a limit. Or people are buying way too much. Either way, the need for Australians to buy so much toilet paper should have abated by now. So, why is the buy up still going? An 8-pack of toilet paper should last a family of 6 a good month. Three weeks later, we might start seeing people needing to restock. But the overbuying should have meant that toilet paper supplies could have been shipped in by truck more frequently.

I would say that perhaps there is a hold off of supplies for some other reason. I get the feeling that the government is doing more to scare the public into a reliance. Perhaps reasoning that people will forget about their troubles of politics with this distraction.

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