No £ucking toilet paper!

Dman2

Member
Location
Durham, UK
Mate of mine while in the army was quartermaster on a base in germany.
While on leave his underling ordered what he thought was 10000 toilet rolls for the base.
What he actually ordered was 10000 packs of 50 toilet rolls.
Numerous artics turned up
Underling got a bollocking

So this stockpiling is not a new thing

PS can`t remember the exact figures but mate said there was a serious amount of toilet paper turned up
 

Haplo2481

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DrWazzock

Member
Arable Farmer
Location
Lincolnshire
Was it ever clearly communicated that any lockdown does not preclude shopping for food and other essentials? No.
So it’s hardly surprising that people start buying more than they need.
the way I see it is governments have been about a month late with just about every measure they have taken and communication continues to run behind not in front of the virus.
I’d like to think the best but most measures have been too late so we see public making their own way through it.
I did not buy extra bog roll . Now my supplies are very low. None in market Rasen or bread or flour all IMO because nobody was explicitly told that a lockdown won’t include shopping for essentials.
Poor communication.
 

Happy

Member
Location
Scotland
Mrs happy was in both Tesco and the local co-op this afternoon and both checkout staff looked thoroughly miserable.
Nothing to do with being rushed of their feet or getting abuse when telling people they are only allowed one loaf of bread though.
Both said they feel like sitting ducks having to handle every item customers have picked up & put in their trolley.
Surely Tesco could be giving them some some gloves or hand sanitiser to use between customers?
 

JeepJeep

Member
Trade
Missus took 24 Toilet Rolls and Tins of Soup & Veg and some Spuds to a lady around the corner in her 80's who used to drop school uniform off and trainers for the youngest when times were hard.

She was without most things.

She started crying and said she couldnt remember the last time anybody had gave her anything.

Bonkers Times out there.
 
this is probably one of the most sensible & simplest solutions ive heard. rationing by proxy !
They'd probably need extra security to deal with the initial tantrums but other than that I can't see a problem. If people can't carry a basket they'd have to stick to Asda with the push-along baskets. It seems so easy I can't believe the management haven't considered it already.

Another thought, do supermarket car parks all have ANPR cameras? If so I'm sure the car park administrators would be happy to issue £100 fines for each time people revisit more than once a day. Together with the basket-only policy, that would eat into the profits of the stockpiling scrotes reselling on Facebook.
 

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quote: “Red Tractor has confirmed it is dropping plans to launch its green farming assurance standard in April“

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