What a totally crazy time this was.

Found it so hard to cope in the early days of restrictions and the on-line deliveries just weren’t good enough for the older community. I just ended up going shopping as usual – but this week noticed the laxity of checking how many people in the supermarket, no checking on how many in the aisles, no proper social distancing – think this virus will start to go up very soon.

I am so glad Woolworths deliveries and click and collect services are back up and running. As a regular user, it was difficult when the services ceased and even more difficult when I tried to order for my immuno-compromised Dad

Getting items is improving slowly. The supermarkets have been doing a great job

Yeah but it’s still crazy. I don’t understand why people are stock piling?

I haven’t done a big grocery shop in four weeks, I’ve just been popping to our local shop when I need something. Today I’m off to do a big grocery shop, first time since all this crazy took off……wish me luck

It’s annoying how people are being selfish and are going overboard with supplies. As I only want to shop at one store and only once a week, I’ve had to go elsewhere to find stuff and sometimes go countless times a week just to get essentials.

My wish would be that people stop being selfish. Stop hoarding and just be kind. We are ALL IN THIS TOGETHER.

who is classed as most vulnerable? I have an autoimmune disorder, chronic renal failure and IBS. Is that me?

If people could stop being idiots that would be great

Apart from the fact that many things are not on the shelf… no! I could live out of my pantry and freezer for a month. We could just learn to be creative with what we cook. There’s plenty of fresh fruit and veg in the supermarkets. Maybe people need to ditch the crap and go fresh. Wow, what a concept. Horrified by the selfish behaviour and panic buying of people. Just ridiculous and horrible.

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  • • mom75925 replied
    • 18 Mar 2020 , 7:03 pm

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  When everything else is gone they WILL strip the shelves of fresh food. Last time at Coles, the potato and apple shelves were almost totally empty.

We went to Woolies last night and couldn’t get a lot of our usual groceries because the shelves were completely bare of things like cheese blocks, rice, pasta, toilet paper of course and milk. It was crazy because the week before there were no issues at all at my regular store.

I dont order on line or do pick up. I like to shop myself but there isnt alot on the shelves at the moment

I only shop once a month so I’m usually very low on products. I normally do a click and collect order as I travel for 2 hours to do a shop. My last shop I just bought what I would normally buy. Hopefully stores will be restocked before I need to do another shop. I’m hoping I’ll be able to do a click and collect again. I am unable to walk around the shop myself as I have a disability but don’t have a card because Centrelink say I’m not eligible. If people just did a normal shop then things would be able to carry on as normal.

I have not been stocking up , just shopping for my weekly essentials – now there is hardly anything on the shelves …. went today and there was no pasta, tinned food, flour, frozen meals or bread. Some people are stripping the shelves bare without consideration for others. If everyone just bought what they needed, we wouldn’t have these shortages and evryone would get what they needed.

If they don’t have anything to re-stock the shelves, they should say so or have a sign to save the disabled and elderly struggling in to find empty shelves.

I feel like I need to defend woolies and their staff.
Obviously they can’t do click and collect in most stores as they would be refunding more than half of your order then when you pick it up you’ll only have a couple of things. Not much point in that.
Also to the people saying that they went in at 7 and there was still nothing on the shelves, staff stock what they have, if they don’t have something out the back then obviously they can’t restock it.
Woolies are doing everything they can to make people happy and make sure they can get the things they need but people still aren’t happy. They cannot cater for every single person individually. You should stop blaming supermarkets for not having stock and start blaming the absolute selfish idiots that buy WAY more than they need.

My partner works nightfill at woolies and has stopped stocking up most of the toilet paper and things like pasta, rice etc until the store closes so there is stuff on the shelf for the elderly and disabled that go in at 7.
Staff are dealing with so much horrible behaviour from disgusting selfish people and it’s honestly not fair. Retail is hard on a normal day let alone while going through this bs.
Please please please try to remember to be respectful of staff when you shop. They are still human and are feeling the brunt of this crap.

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  • • mom93821 replied
    • 18 Mar 2020 , 6:42 pm

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  I agree – I feel for staff working in grocery stores and other retail stores.
  I always have kind words for the staff in our stores and ask them how they are going.
  These are unprecedented times and everyone needs to be nice and kind.

Went to Mt Hutton NSW Woolworths at 7 a.m. (usually in bed at this time) to shop in the allotted elderly/disabled hour. THE SHELVES HAD NOT BEEN RE-STOCKED! No Toilet Paper, no tissues, no soup, no pasta, not a real lot of meat. I didn’t see anyone else with these items. The ONLY toilet roll I saw was in the hands of a woman of about 35 who looked pretty fit and was walking away from Woolworths (staff member?). Obviously, Woolworths just hoped we would buy something else after making the effort to get there.

We couldn’t get our normal baby’s washing liquid, and couldn’t get pasta for dinners either. So frustrating!

I just need the essentials for the week and I can’t get to them