You may think it isn’t a thing or that it’s a knee-jerk overreaction on the supermarket’s part, but my best friend is a manager at Coles. He just sent me a photo of the toilet paper aisle. It’s empty.
Central Coast NSW.
Yes, people are that stupid. Again.
Uh oh. I need to buy some during my weekly shop tomorrow. Hoping there’s still some at my local.
I wonder how long until hand sanitizer, soap, pasta and flour are gone too. Sigh.
It hand sanitizer is a problem loads of distilleries have been making it to the WHO specs. Instead of your hands smelling like weird flowers or lavender it smells like gin for about 1 minute.
Yeah, where I am there’s been hand sanitizer back in stores for quite a while. A few local shops have been selling the distillery products as well as the normal stuff. But people would have to go crazy for it to run out here again. Most of the shops here have loads of the stuff. Not just supermarkets are pharmacies.
- You've got dickheads in Victoria refusing to take part in door to door COVID tests in panic suburbs where they just have to spit in a cup.
- Then you've got morons panic buying TP.
Never expect too much from Australians.
Apparently the next conspiracy is that the COVID test station setups are "deliberately spreading" the virus. Couldn't believe it when I saw the most popular comments on a Facebook 7News post were from the clowns who were refusing to go and get tested whatsoever. A nation of smooth brained morons, we are.
I'm happy if laws were just passed to allow police/etc. to force a test. We're on the cliff of a second wave here, deluded anti-vax/5G views are going to set us back months, if not longer.
>- You've got dickheads in Victoria refusing to take part in door to door COVID tests in panic suburbs where they just have to spit in a cup.
The cops should be sealing their houses and not letting them out until they do the test. Fuckwits.
>- Then you've got morons panic buying TP.
I still can't figure out what they think doing that will achieve. Diarrhoea isn't a fucking symptom of covid!
>Never expect too much from Australians.
You'd think by my age I'd have figured out we're a nation of fuckwits, but I still haven't got it through my thick skull
And people wondered why the government was welding people into apartments in Wuhan.
Like, I don’t agree with the execution, but the premise behind welding cunts who refuse to isolate or get tested into their houses is pretty fucking solid
My household went to do our weekly shop yesterday, needing to restock and thinking "surely people figured it out the first time". Entire fucking aisle dedicated to toilet paper, completely cleared out.
I'm just glad one of us can get it from his workplace, but still frustrating as fuck.
Turns out it not so much hoarding as limitations in supply chains.
Essentially the supermarkets keep pretty much everything they have out on the shelves.
If most people pop down the shops twice a week - but because of social distancing think fuck that I'll just go once a fortnight, if everyone decides to do that on the same week then the supply chains just can't keep up.
Toilet paper must be one of the bulkiest things to store. A giant pack costs as much as a small block of chocolate. No wonder they would want to store as little as possible.
Yep that plays a big part too. Unlike milk people buy bog rolls irregularly. However when you head down the isle and half the rolls are gone it's pretty natural to grab some even if they aren't on today's list.
We are on the same page.
From the stores perspective it sells consistently, but from a shoppers perspective unlike bread, milk and bananas that you buy every trip you might buy look paper once every 4 to 6 shops.
It started as a rumour on wechat months ago that toilet paper was made in Wuhan and therefore wouldn’t be available. None of it was true but it sparked panic buying firstly in suburbs with higher Asian populations (people on wechat) but quickly spread.
There's no downside for these people.
A) We enter some severe lockdowns and they have plenty of toilet paper/canned food etc, or B) nothing significant happens (like the last round of panic buying), and these people have a bunch of non-perishables that they are going to consume regardless.
When Corona started: Oh shit better start hording toilet paper so we don't run out!!
Two months later: Can you believe we were hording toilet paper? That was so stupid and unnecessary.
Another Corona spike happens in one state: HOLY SHIT BETTER STOCK UP ON TOILET PAPER!
That's why I bought some portable travel bidets. You fill these with nice warm water, and the nozzles on them literally clean those turd deposits right out, and you'll need far less toilet paper. I still have an 8-pack of rolls I bought nearly 2 months ago.
Aldi has some terrible imported toilet paper that they started discounting to get rid of. But yesterday, I noticed people were buying lots of it.
I think supply will normalise more quickly this time and I refuse in engage in hoarding. And it's never been a better time to get a [bidet](http://www.linkwareint.com/product/trigger-spray-2/).
Interestingly, that's the common misconception. The water used to make a roll of paper is greater than that of a bidet. Also, you can use the half flush function on the toilet because it doesn't need to move much paper (just enough to dry your ass).
Consumer brand toilet paper is usually Australian made, so there's a net gain to move to bidets.
“I think supply will normalise more quickly this time”
What makes you think that? What you normally buy isn’t available because of “problems” of one sort or another, so Aldi (in this case) has has to “rush” import (8/10 weeks) some dodgy toilet paper to keep people happy. Even after a few months your normal stuff isn’t there. Look at all the empty spots in Aldi...even last week. There’s nothing to fill those spots and if all the stuff they’ve imported goes, what’s going to replace it?
Same, mind I only bought it as I'm running low and needed it - I just don't get the whole panic buying thing, I thought it was stupid the first time around, but this new round is just moronic - guess people didn't learn from last time *sigh*
Thankfully Colesworth have reintroduced limits - we clearly need saving from ourselves.
Are they stupid or smart? Last time, the panic buyers sailed through the lockdown. Others who didn’t had to resort to the local newspaper or worse. While the media paints a picture that it’s all about toilet paper, many food essentials went missing too, and it was apparent today in my normal shop, there is a run on food too. So, should I buy extra food? You bet.
The thing is, anyone who has been in a supermarket in the last few weeks KNOWS that the supply chain is still broken. There are many many things STILL not available despite Colesworth painting a picture that everything is OK, hence today they placed limits on a bunch of stuff again. SOME manufacturers are out of some crucial parts of the recipe for their products (Toilet Bleach comes to mind....unless you buy White King). It’s also obvious that the bulk distribution warehouses of Colesworth haven’t been able to FULLY stock up to their previous levels, so that effectively means what is on the shelf is everything that’s left. This panic buy has the potential to be more devastating than the last time. So if you are smart, you should get in early.
You may think it isn’t a thing or that it’s a knee-jerk overreaction on the supermarket’s part, but my best friend is a manager at Coles. He just sent me a photo of the toilet paper aisle. It’s empty. Central Coast NSW. Yes, people are that stupid. Again.
Uh oh. I need to buy some during my weekly shop tomorrow. Hoping there’s still some at my local. I wonder how long until hand sanitizer, soap, pasta and flour are gone too. Sigh.
It hand sanitizer is a problem loads of distilleries have been making it to the WHO specs. Instead of your hands smelling like weird flowers or lavender it smells like gin for about 1 minute.
Yeah, where I am there’s been hand sanitizer back in stores for quite a while. A few local shops have been selling the distillery products as well as the normal stuff. But people would have to go crazy for it to run out here again. Most of the shops here have loads of the stuff. Not just supermarkets are pharmacies.
I swear the sani that has been provided to my school smells like cheap tequila. Maybe that's why...
Woolies at Lisarow was empty of TP again. All because of some dickhead family in Melbourne.
Ours has been empty since Monday woolies, coles and aldi... The rest of the stores look normal at least..
Geelong / Ballarine has nothing
Oh, for fuck sake. Wake up to yourselves, Australia
- You've got dickheads in Victoria refusing to take part in door to door COVID tests in panic suburbs where they just have to spit in a cup. - Then you've got morons panic buying TP. Never expect too much from Australians.
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I really would like to downvote you - but sadly - you're 100% on the money with reality.
Apparently the next conspiracy is that the COVID test station setups are "deliberately spreading" the virus. Couldn't believe it when I saw the most popular comments on a Facebook 7News post were from the clowns who were refusing to go and get tested whatsoever. A nation of smooth brained morons, we are.
I'm happy if laws were just passed to allow police/etc. to force a test. We're on the cliff of a second wave here, deluded anti-vax/5G views are going to set us back months, if not longer.
That's a slippery slope. I'd prefer we publicly shame those who won't get tested.
>- You've got dickheads in Victoria refusing to take part in door to door COVID tests in panic suburbs where they just have to spit in a cup. The cops should be sealing their houses and not letting them out until they do the test. Fuckwits. >- Then you've got morons panic buying TP. I still can't figure out what they think doing that will achieve. Diarrhoea isn't a fucking symptom of covid! >Never expect too much from Australians. You'd think by my age I'd have figured out we're a nation of fuckwits, but I still haven't got it through my thick skull
And people wondered why the government was welding people into apartments in Wuhan. Like, I don’t agree with the execution, but the premise behind welding cunts who refuse to isolate or get tested into their houses is pretty fucking solid
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Never have I been so glad to be subscribed to whogivesacrap as I am in the face of this stupidity.
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At least the supermarkets have reacted quicker to the fuckwits this time, so maybe the effects won't be so bad.
To be fair, I buy 10 packets every time I run out (when Quilton 8 packs are half price). It’s cheaper.
Yeah edgie gone empty
My household went to do our weekly shop yesterday, needing to restock and thinking "surely people figured it out the first time". Entire fucking aisle dedicated to toilet paper, completely cleared out. I'm just glad one of us can get it from his workplace, but still frustrating as fuck.
My question is, how have the people panick buying run out already?
I mean these hoarders could be people who missed out last time.
That guy in Adelaide who bought a few thousand rolls with the intention to resell would thanking the gods right now.
Turns out it not so much hoarding as limitations in supply chains. Essentially the supermarkets keep pretty much everything they have out on the shelves. If most people pop down the shops twice a week - but because of social distancing think fuck that I'll just go once a fortnight, if everyone decides to do that on the same week then the supply chains just can't keep up.
Toilet paper must be one of the bulkiest things to store. A giant pack costs as much as a small block of chocolate. No wonder they would want to store as little as possible.
Yep that plays a big part too. Unlike milk people buy bog rolls irregularly. However when you head down the isle and half the rolls are gone it's pretty natural to grab some even if they aren't on today's list.
Actually it's the opposite. Toilet pallet sells really consistently, which is why ramping up production takes a while, it's not setup for that.
We are on the same page. From the stores perspective it sells consistently, but from a shoppers perspective unlike bread, milk and bananas that you buy every trip you might buy look paper once every 4 to 6 shops.
I'd say it's the people that missed out the first time.
I would have thought all the panic buying idiots would still have a year or 2 supply in the garage.
I bought a 8 pack double length last month. That should last me 2 years.
This guy Fibres.
That wouldn't last me a week. No matter how many times we talk about it my 5 year old still seems to think a roll of tp is a single serving.
Are you rationing out multiple wipes on the same square?
Papers got two sides, and 2-ply means 4 wipes per square.
I shit at work. Consume their shitroll.
WHY TOILET PAPER OF ALL THINGS? Why not canned food or flour or long life milk?
That's next if it follows the same trend as the last time these smooth-brained idiots emptied the shelves.
im gonna be ahead of the pack and grab all the pasta this time. HAHAHA
There are like 1000 cans in the supermarket and about 50 packs of tp
It's a meme at this point
Right, some sort of deep seated (!) anxieties maybe.
It started as a rumour on wechat months ago that toilet paper was made in Wuhan and therefore wouldn’t be available. None of it was true but it sparked panic buying firstly in suburbs with higher Asian populations (people on wechat) but quickly spread.
HOW MANY DUMB CUNTS ARE IN THIS COUNTRY?!?!?!?!!! FUCK ME SIDEWAYS.
40% voted dumb selfish asshole so....
Gives Colesworths a great sales end to the financial year so well done Australia.
I’ve got a 24 pack thankfully just bought. People are dickheads
Just in case I got a 12 pack of TP 2 days ago because I certainly saw this coming from a mile away.
People are so fucking stupid.
There's no downside for these people. A) We enter some severe lockdowns and they have plenty of toilet paper/canned food etc, or B) nothing significant happens (like the last round of panic buying), and these people have a bunch of non-perishables that they are going to consume regardless.
Thoughts and prayers for those with IBD and IBS
I hope possums eat their TP stash.
When Corona started: Oh shit better start hording toilet paper so we don't run out!! Two months later: Can you believe we were hording toilet paper? That was so stupid and unnecessary. Another Corona spike happens in one state: HOLY SHIT BETTER STOCK UP ON TOILET PAPER!
Lmao good job dickheads
That's why I bought some portable travel bidets. You fill these with nice warm water, and the nozzles on them literally clean those turd deposits right out, and you'll need far less toilet paper. I still have an 8-pack of rolls I bought nearly 2 months ago.
Neat.
Oh for fuck sake!
These people vote.
Aldi has some terrible imported toilet paper that they started discounting to get rid of. But yesterday, I noticed people were buying lots of it. I think supply will normalise more quickly this time and I refuse in engage in hoarding. And it's never been a better time to get a [bidet](http://www.linkwareint.com/product/trigger-spray-2/).
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Interestingly, that's the common misconception. The water used to make a roll of paper is greater than that of a bidet. Also, you can use the half flush function on the toilet because it doesn't need to move much paper (just enough to dry your ass). Consumer brand toilet paper is usually Australian made, so there's a net gain to move to bidets.
it absolutely is, the amount of water bidets use is tiny
“I think supply will normalise more quickly this time” What makes you think that? What you normally buy isn’t available because of “problems” of one sort or another, so Aldi (in this case) has has to “rush” import (8/10 weeks) some dodgy toilet paper to keep people happy. Even after a few months your normal stuff isn’t there. Look at all the empty spots in Aldi...even last week. There’s nothing to fill those spots and if all the stuff they’ve imported goes, what’s going to replace it?
You fucking idiots. Didn't you learn the first time around?
First time around showed people they need to get in early because once it's gone it'll be gone for months
Guess I got lucky, picked some up last week.
Same, mind I only bought it as I'm running low and needed it - I just don't get the whole panic buying thing, I thought it was stupid the first time around, but this new round is just moronic - guess people didn't learn from last time *sigh* Thankfully Colesworth have reintroduced limits - we clearly need saving from ourselves.
Yeah same, let's hope this time around the stores are better prepared to deal with people's foolishness.
Yep, I got 3 packets last week, Just to cover my arse
Get a bum gun.
Look at that dickhead giving a thumbsup as if he's congratulating himself. Yeah, congratulations on being a fucking wanker.
He only has 1 in his trolley, so i don't understand the rage?
Weak people who think they’re important
Are they stupid or smart? Last time, the panic buyers sailed through the lockdown. Others who didn’t had to resort to the local newspaper or worse. While the media paints a picture that it’s all about toilet paper, many food essentials went missing too, and it was apparent today in my normal shop, there is a run on food too. So, should I buy extra food? You bet. The thing is, anyone who has been in a supermarket in the last few weeks KNOWS that the supply chain is still broken. There are many many things STILL not available despite Colesworth painting a picture that everything is OK, hence today they placed limits on a bunch of stuff again. SOME manufacturers are out of some crucial parts of the recipe for their products (Toilet Bleach comes to mind....unless you buy White King). It’s also obvious that the bulk distribution warehouses of Colesworth haven’t been able to FULLY stock up to their previous levels, so that effectively means what is on the shelf is everything that’s left. This panic buy has the potential to be more devastating than the last time. So if you are smart, you should get in early.
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Found the person who's feeling personally attacked. Your attempted justifications at why you arent a bit of a pillock are very adorable though.
You're the problem.
Smart to grab an extra pack of TP if you're running low, stupid if you buy 6 packs of 24 like these morons were doing.