I did a big shop at Aldi today. fantastic. Very quiet and got everything I needed.Plenty of everything except the usual loo rolls.
I can only assume that the panic buyers are still stocked to high heaven and don’t need to shop this week so there’s plenty for the rest of us.
Is there a card available- I was asked for I’d this morning. Help
After days I’ve managed to get a Sainsbury’s on line slot!! Have only ordered what I need, plus some naughty choc biscuits. Only one pack promise.
Grandchildren’s goody tin not touched. I dare not, would be too tempted. Odd to see that full lol
The post code lottery at it’s finest ?
Online shopping meltdown: Supermarket delivery system appears close to collapse as stores struggle to cope with deluge of orders during coronavirus crisis.
Daily Mail survey found no delivery slots available from any mainstream stores.
No orders could be placed from Tesco, Asda, Sainsbury’s, Morrisons, Waitrose and Ocado.
Boris Johnson suggested locked-down Britons should arrange food deliveries.
Supermarket delivery system appears close to collapse | Daily Mail Online
to be honest Bill I think this is the Daily Mail at it’s sensationalist worst ! I contribute to another forum where we are having similar conversations about COVID 19 and online shopping - the majority of the members there are saying that there are delivery slots available for existing customers (especially if you have registered as “vulnerable”), you just have to keep checking. I also know for sure that some of the supermarkets (not all) are not taking on any new online customers - fair enough they are overstretched with deliveries at the moment - but a pound to a penny a lot of the “new” customers will be those who stripped the shops bare in the first place !
I tend to agree.
However , the Daily Mail occasionally comes up trumps … what they reported here mirror images numerous reports locally as may be gleamed from a random
sample of local newspapers nationwide … 3 out of 10 headings sampled this morning alone were of the " Empty shelves " variety.
Online deliveries … percentages … goods supplied versus goods ordered … 40% and one would be doing well … especially in the essentials category ?
Local ASDA this morning … happy hour … flash twirly card … fresh vegetables / potatoes first time in 6 days … milk first time since early Monday … bread / rolls sparse
… no meat … medications sparse … alcohol , quick glance , a few cans left of a beer I had never heard of … at one point , counted 9 fellow shoppers ( 8.25 am ) baskets
not trolleys … car park deserted , as was town centre 150 yards further on.
Farmfoods next door … temporary closed pending supplies coming in later.
It’s taken me days and constant checking. I prefer not to go out except for a short walk. Am a healthy 70 year old, and want to remain that way. Family have been through enough heartbreak. Bill, you made me feel I should justify trying!!
Desperate times demand desperate measures ?
Keeping fit during the lockdown … one trip out for essentials ?
5 supermarkets … 3.5 miles round trip … milk today , meat tomorrow , potatoes on Friday … if I’m lucky ?
If things get worse , do not rule out Government intervention into the supply chain … removing competitive practices for one.
Tesco has announced that customers will no longer be able to buy skimmed milk in its supermarkets, as stores change what stock is available during the coronavirus lockdown.
It is reported that shoppers will soon only be able to buy semi-skimmed or whole milk in two or four pint bottles.
According to the Mirror, the supermarket will also temporarily axe most of its promotions and multi-pack deals in an effort to stop people panic buying during the coronavirus pandemic.
The supermarket giant is also simplifying its toilet roll range, with at least one supplier asked to only send in nine-roll packs.
what about people who can only have skimmed milk for diet reasons or because other milk make them sick like us !!!
Long life skimmed milk has still been available at my local supermarkets although initially it did all disappear off the shelves ! Personally I prefer the long life version anyway. Or you could perhaps try one of the other milks available - like Oat Milk or Soya milk. If ‘milk’ makes you sick because of an intolerance to dairy then these might be better anyway (it’s the lactose in milk which causes the problem).
I prefer the long life version of skimmed milk too. My son in law kindly dropped a few bits in my porch the other day. He bought me lactose free skimmed. I was wary but it was fine. May be worth a try.
I’ve just been to my local Waitrose. Got everything I usually buy. Plenty of products shelves. Only about 6 customers. Just as many staff. But all good!
I had a Tesco online delivery today - still no soap, toilet paper or soya milk (ladies of a certain age need soya to help with the flushes!) plus other items not available. I cannot get a delivery slot after 1st April, I always use them and although I’m not vulnerable - S is. He struggles with sensory overload if having to spend very long in a supermarket, rather like this: Can you make it to the end? - YouTube
Penny, If people are still panic buying toilet paper - surely they are soon going to run out of storage space!! Luckily a friend of ours managed to get a pack and dropped around for us. What time did you go to Aldi?
Well done Pet for getting a delivery.
Dean, Yes ASDA yesterday only had semi-skimmed milk.
Sunnydisposition, my sister recommended Waitrose too. We don’t have one that locally.
Thinking of trying the Co-op next time.
Bill, sounds like you are going to be very fit with all this to-ing and fro-ing.
Melly1
hi it does not matter what shop has got xyz if your are vulnerable and unable to go out for medical or shopping you are completely cut off as we are finding at the moment … i saw this online UK government helps supermarkets target deliveries to vulnerable shoppers but when it will take place is another thing we have got a shopping list made on tesco ready but heard nothing at the moment …
we have been in contact with local mp and was given some info if you live in east sussex area, we have made contact and waiting for call back
There is room for common sense here. Yesterday I went to Waitrose during the “first hour”. I wanted some mandarins. There was a choice of pre-packed or pick-your-own. There pre-packs contain a lot more than three. I decided that it was logical that if I could buy a pack of several I could instead pick several. I picked nine of the pick-your-own. Did not seem to be a problem. No staff challenged me. The self-service check-out let me buy them.
Talking about self-service check-outs, there has been some difference of opinion on the usage of these during the present problems. They can be programmed to restrict numbers of items bought. They are good idea because they avoid the close contact that is associated with cashier check-outs provided they themselves are not too close together. At Waitrose alternate ones were out of service to enable customers to use them and apply the 2 m distance. This of course means that fewer are available - a potential problem at busy times. Maybe screens can be installed, as at some cashier check-outs.
Incidentally, I saw a lady check out with a pack of 18 toilet rolls! No doubt if she had have tried to buy more than two four-packs she would have been prevented.
They move to bigger houses ! 
mY WIFE/JUST OUT OF7 WEEKS IN HOSPITAL/PARKINSONS/Pacemaker /high and Low BP unstable both in our 80s confined to house.immobility.No slots unable to get to supermarkets on phone or web pages.dAYSOFTRYING
Apparently only cancer and bowel problems classed as vunerable.
Have writetn to MARTIN LEWIS(who gets things done) setting out our problem of no help from supermarkets in getting food.Response awaited
Denis, it was an online shop and the software prevents you from ordering more than 3. The packs of stuff sell out first.
Welcome David, (if your username is the same as your real name - then I strongly recommend you change it to a pen name to protect your identity.) Let us know when he gets back to you, what he says.
Albert, they’d need a big removal van to fit them all in!
Melly1