SO funny reading these articles now.
I was fine as I was well stocked before covid hit. My husband was battling cancer so I had to make sure the cupboards were well stocked as I never knew when I was going to be able to get to the supermarket.

Interesting to look back on this now, and what was done and what could be done better in the future. It was extremely hard for seniors, especially if limited support and mobility.

This was an awful fiasco – meant I just went shopping as usual and hoped for the best rather than being safe and at home like everyone wanted me to do.

Just doing my normal weekly shop and substituting where I can’t get what I want

I think they’d be better off having more online and less in store. They could monitor who is ordering what and who is coming back day after day and ordering bulk. Took my 3 year old and 7 month old in to shop. Very hard. Didn’t want to risk putting them in trolley with germs so had the double pram and could only get what I could manage to carry in a basket while pushing the double pram.

Yes it’s not good especially for the elderly, but for everyone else I think it makes it fair

It’s kinda double edged. If products are limited to how much you can buy, then some people will just need to go to the supermarket more often. But we need the limits in place for those that are going overboard and stockpiling essentials, making it impossible for others to even buy any

We have enough food in our pantry and freezer to keep us going for a few weeks. We just might need to be creative with what we eat and eat more simply.

I’m trying to minimise how much I go out – a bit hard when you cant have your groceries delivered

It’s adding to the problem having to go several times a week to get enough food etc for your family. But I understand why they’ve put restrictions on, due to panic buying

We’re lucky that we are relatively well stocked at home with overstocking/hoarding. It will be interesting to see how long what I think is a lot of food actually lasts.

thankfully I work just above a supermarket so I can always pop in daily and top up what we need. It’s a shame that they stopped online I think they could have managed the quantities of stock better with online shopping and be able to actually enforce the limits. But these things happen. The bare shelves are a bit of a challenge but it makes you look at the products that are left and see how creative in the kitchen one can be with limited options!

Luckily I’d just done my monthly shop when they put up the restrictions. I like to use click and collect because I can’t walk around the store due to health issues. We’ll just have to get by on what we have in the freezer and in the cupboards until things calm down. We can last about 3 weeks before I have to start panicking.

We are just going with what we can get

It makes sense given the low supply and high demand

They have no choice with the greedy people emptying the shelves and stock piling its madness, I have only the bare items as I have not been able to get anything when I go to supermarkets all I see is empty shelves, I think they should do click and collect and only once per week per house hold then its limit instead of this madness.. From a low income earning and mums with kids and the oldies are they ones who are left be hide with nothing left.

Woolworths has priority delivery still happening but only to people who need the service. I would be happy to give my Medicare card to show I have a bigger family and everyone gets to get packages from them pre done. There is enough for everyone

Maybe shops should close and work only with online orders and home delivery !

There is no stock to pick up or deliver anyway!

I heard about this from a work mate- you’d think they’d want to encourage online shopping at this time!