No significant evidence of panic-buying/shortages so far with this third lockdown

[Lencoboy]

Despite today's grim Covid stats, one particular shade of grey seems to be the apparent lack of reported panic-buying due to this third lockdown.

Well you all remember what happened last March, in the run-up to the very first lockdown, and to a much lesser extent in the run-up to the second lockdown in November, especially with the toilet rolls!

Have most people now come to their senses and started to realise that it was all a big unnecessary overreaction to issues that never really existed in the first place, or have the mainstream media now started to get more sensible and tone down their sensationalism and scaremongering stories which were partly responsible for fuelling the panic-buying hysteria in the first place, or both?

[Pamplemousse]

I did hear of some idiot Northerners emptying their local B+M of bog rolls and dried rice/pasta but otherwise, nothing.

[NoraB]

I did hear of some idiot Northerners emptying their local B+M of bog rolls and dried rice/pasta but otherwise, nothing.

Less of the Northerners.

[BikerMatt]

Less of the Northerners.

What about Northern kids, that would just blow PM's mind!!

[NoraB]

What about Northern kids, that would just blow PM's mind!!

Only Northern kids wouldn't be poncing around with Haribo. They're weaned off the milk and straight onto the pie, black pudding, Eccles cake, or whatever the local 'delicacy' happens to be.

[BikerMatt]

Only Northern kids wouldn't be poncing around with Haribo. They're weaned off the milk and straight onto the pie, black pudding, Eccles cake, or whatever the local 'delicacy' happens to be.

Lol Nora!

[MyNameIsTerry]

Only Northern kids wouldn't be poncing around with Haribo. They're weaned off the milk and straight onto the pie, black pudding, Eccles cake, or whatever the local 'delicacy' happens to be.

Benson's and Snakebite

Ah, takes me back to the days of smuggling bottles of 20/20 into nightclubs (Nora, remember Vallees?)

[Lencoboy]

I did hear of some idiot Northerners emptying their local B+M of bog rolls and dried rice/pasta but otherwise, nothing.

But at least the mainstream press have kept it low-key so far, if true.

Because if it bleeds, it leads!

[MyNameIsTerry]

To be fair we have to keep up with the idiot southerners emptying their Costcos a while back

I've noticed some things missing in the last couple of weeks but it's that time of year, pandemic and importers not knowing what the politicians were going to do until the 11th hour UK-EU.

[Lencoboy]

To be fair we have to keep up with the idiot southerners emptying their Costcos a while back

I've noticed some things missing in the last couple of weeks but it's that time of year, pandemic and importers not knowing what the politicians were going to do until the 11th hour UK-EU.

Of course there were the delays at Dover during Christmas week due to the scare over the newer Covid mutation spreading between here and mainland Europe, which inevitably resulted in shortages of certain goods, but no reports of any related panic-buying though.

And if any at all, the media must have wised up and kept it relatively low-key.