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Toilet paper, hand sanitizer, and long-lasting goods. These are the things that we know coronavirus panic buyers want. They buy them in packs. They buy them in pallets. And supermarket shelves end up empty.
But not completely empty! Some poor items get left behind. Things that even panic-driven preppers don’t want. What are these things? We’re so glad you asked. Bored Panda compiled a list of the things that get left behind on supermarket shelves, from Hawaiian pizza (pineapples and ham, anyone?) to chocolate hummus. So scroll down and leave a comment below about what unwanted goods you’ve seen left behind in shops.
From what we’ve seen so far, strange brands and peculiar foods like weird-flavored potato chips (not to mention Corona beer) seem to get left behind. But what flies off the shelves like hot buns is toilet paper. But why is that?
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Anne 5 years ago
I know! It was the only bread left here too.. Well.. I can't eat gluten so.. YAY
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Cindy Ruiz 5 years ago
Kinda like how the worker at Pollo Loco asked me yesterday, "will this be for here or to go?" when the establishment is closed for dining-in. haha
Batwench 5 years ago
As a coeliac this makes me happy. Maybe people realise that not everyone can eat normal foods so are considerate enough for the needs of others. Not all humans are d***s.
YoyoSthlm 5 years ago
I don't think people aren't buying gluten free bread to be nice to others, it's just that it tastes horribly. Sorry.
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Linda Adams 5 years ago
Great opportunity for grocery stores to get insight into what their customers want
Annette Christopherson 5 years ago
"Did I find everything I wanted?" That won't happen for the foreseeable future.
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#2
Even in such shortages nobody wants Pineapple Pizza
Heather 5 years ago
So my husband made an observation years ago, that to this day checks out every single time. Whenever he's in a group setting and they suggest ordering pizza, no one ever admits to wanting ham and pineapple, so they order just one at his request and however many of other types. But what's the first one everyone goes to when it gets delivered? Ham and pineapple. It's always disappears first and he might be lucky to get one slice.
Thumbs Down 5 years ago (edited)
Here's the TRUTH BEHIND THE PHOTO: When the empty cooler was re-stocked, they start on the right-hand side. Because HAWAIIAN PIZZA is the BOMB !! and everybody and their grandma LOVES IT.
Rabbit Carrot 5 years ago
Grim but when I went to Tesco yesterday it was the only pizza sold out. Somebody likes it.
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Conrad Strucker 5 years ago
I scrolled past this like "dumb" and then I got the double meaning and I scrolled back up and upvoted
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Lola 5 years ago
The fact that 38 percent of Americans are not buying corona beer because of the virus, scared me more than the actually virus outbreak.
Alexandru Bucur 5 years ago
Yeah, in Bucharest as well, at two different stores, one had all the beer gone except for Corona, while in another other beer was still there, but Corona was missing...
N G 5 years ago
The missing Corona beer is in isolation at the back of the warehouse. The other beers won't even talk to them anymore.
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Cinnamon Roll 5 years ago
No one wanted the corona, it had to stay long, cold nights on the empty shelf. Poor corona, it’s not your fault.
Todd Hollfelder 5 years ago
Everyone who bought some is now cured... hurry, there's only one left!!
Joshua Hutchinson 5 years ago
Don't worry, it'll age beautifully, and longer than an antivax kid will.
Well, this mass buying of products is related to two things: anxiety (buying things tricks us into thinking we have things under control) and the fear of missing out (or FOMO). Massively buying TP obviously doesn’t make sense. It has more to do with herd mentality than with rational thinking.
“What you've got to remember is that when 50 packs of toilet paper rolls disappear off shelves, you really notice it because they take up so much room. It's much more noticeable than say 50 cans of baked beans or hand sanitizer disappearing," Professor Debra Grace from Griffith University told the BBC.
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Rob Chapman 5 years ago
I've got like 10 cans of that in my cupboard. Been there for about a year.
DjLaureth Jezebelle 5 years ago
That can't be Massachusetts, lol. We never have it, even to start with at my local store. Manhattan clan chowder isn't even a chowder, it's a soup.
Becky O'Day 5 years ago
Oh wow, that’s my favorite! I make the very best homemade version of this with an entire orange in it, plus some saffron ...
PandaGirl3807 5 years ago
I like clam chowder but none of my family likes it. Plus what makes me more sad is my teacher has a special recipe he let us try it once and it was heaven! He gave us the recipe but my family refused to make it :(
DjLaureth Jezebelle 5 years ago
So this is my actual Facebook account, please feel free to send the recipe! I love clam chowder! LOL, I get it though. My father's side acts like fish and seafood is poison. Glad my mom raised me, hahaha
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Manhattan Clam Chowder is actually quite delicious. I can say that because I’m not from New England.
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Sardonic Scribe 5 years ago
That's also because cauliflower and broccoli based pizza is like 3 -4 times more expensive than wheat based ones. Gluten free shopping is HUGELY expensive!
Roslyn Madrid 5 years ago
If you are really celiac, or otherwise deeply affected by gluten, eating bread and pizza is not for you. Gluten-free bread is like kissing your sister. You know that you can digest cauliflower and broccoli. Why not make honest vegetables of them ? Finding an edible gluten-free pizza is like finding the Ark of the Covenant. If you go 'organic', then you deserve to pay HUGE prices.
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Lola 5 years ago
Adam - there’s healthy, then there’s broccoli pizza crust. It’s its own category.
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Jerry Stover 5 years ago
I went to Trader Joe's yesterday, and after standing in line for 20 minutes, I found the shelves were almost fully stocked. We were limited to 2 of each item, but there was plenty of milk, bread and all the things other stores were out of. Hoarders not welcome!
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ZombieGirl 5 years ago
HaHa...this one is hilarious! I bought cauliflower rice once and my husband saw it and threw it away! haha...he said no mam!
Gail Fewson 5 years ago
No pool. I like cauliflower rice sorry everyone. Forgive me :-)
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Carrie de Luka 5 years ago
Cauliflower cheese is a known and accepted dish in the UK - probably not just the UK. I love it!
Todd Hollfelder 5 years ago
There's something about comfort when the world is sick... and this is uncomfortable
Meanwhile, Associate Professor Nitika Garg from the University of New South Wales explained that seeing this scarcity makes us believe that the missing product is much more valuable than it really is.
"They think if this person is buying it, if my neighbor is buying there's got to be a reason and I need to get in too," she said. Garg also pointed out that people believe that TP can be used for pretty much everything: from tissues and napkins to “makeshift masks.”
Dr. Rohan Miller from the University of Sydney believes that because we’re not used to scarcity or shortages, we want to maintain the same lifestyle during the coronavirus crisis. “The rush to get toilet paper is just this sheep mentality to maintain that status. I think people want to make sure they have some comforts in their lives if they're going to be shacked up with their family for a long time," he told the BBC.
"Toilet paper doesn't really matter—it's just so far down the survival list compared to other things like food or water—but it's just something people cling to as a minimum standard."
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Malakai 5 years ago
Boar's Head dark chocolate hummus is effing delicious. You can enjoy your boring fruit with no dip while I chow down on strawberries and cherries with it :)
TheCanadianViking 5 years ago
That's funny, chocolate hummus sold out at Costco here two weeks ago and they have yet to restock, I'm suffering withdrawals!
DjLaureth Jezebelle 5 years ago
Dude, I never would have believed it myself but that chocolate hummus is soooo goood. I got tricked into trying it when I got some for my post-bariatric surgery kid. It's sort of like a nutty creamy sweeter Special Dark bar chocolate pudding flavour. Sounds weird, way better than it sounds.
glowworm2 5 years ago
Does the Buffalo hummus have actual buffalo in it or is it just a flavor of sorts?
Ivy D 5 years ago
It's a spicy sort of flavor, probably an American thing now that I think about it.
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Diane Dizacomo 5 years ago
chocolate hummus is the closest thing to eating chocolate frosting out of a can, without actually eating choc frosting out of a can. no need for dipper just grab a spoon
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ACE 5 years ago
Me too. I put actual shrimp in it. I am too lazy to prepare a real meal.
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Melissa Meaux 5 years ago
Shrimp is my favorite, also pineapple pizza! I guess I'm sick, but mentally 🤷♀️
Jim Ellington 5 years ago
Everybody eats it at some point, but it's high time we started calling ramen what it is, and that is terrible.
Celtic Pirate Queen 5 years ago
Our grocery store was completely out of ALL Ramen (Top or otherwise) and all Cup O' Noodles. We LOVE Top Ramen! (Sliced green onions, fresh ginger, cilantro, hot chili sauce, a wedge of fresh lime and thinly sliced leftover BBQ pork? Are you kidding me? YUM!!). We call it "Faux Pho".
Jane Alexander 5 years ago
Well in a pinch you can use the ramen. You don't have to open the shrimp package, just season with something else. -like spaghetti sauce, it's just noodles fer cryin' out loud.
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Ana Ferreira 5 years ago
Are people seriously avoiding Corona beer just because it has the same name as the virus? That is painfully stupid.
Lola 5 years ago
I think it’s scary more than anything. But then again, we have Trump for president. His followers would be the first to avoid the beer.
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Russell Rieckenberg 5 years ago
They should make COVID-19 brand toilet paper. See if it sells.
Barbara Vandewalle 5 years ago
I have seen people / jerks grab items out of others hands or carts.
Bored Panda spoke with David Savage, associate professor of behavioral and microeconomics at the University of Newcastle in Australia, about how uncertainty and a lack of information lead to stockpiling and hoarding supplies.
“Uncertainty is the starting point, but what the general public is dealing with at the moment is ambiguity, that is people do not know what it is that they do not know! They are uncertain if or when the virus will spread to the region, they do not know if they themselves will be infected, which also means they do not know if they need to go into isolation and need several weeks’ worth of supplies,” Dr. Savage explained the current conundrum affecting some countries around the world.
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European other 5 years ago
I can't understand why ?! It could keep you entertained in isolation 😁
SirPatTheCat 5 years ago
Urgh....just imagining it gives me a headache lol
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Tracy Lord 5 years ago
My guess is that the salt wouldn't stick to them well enough to bother with.
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Maureen McDermott 5 years ago
Might this be staged? Four upright bags without another item around them seem unlikely.
Yuccababy 5 years ago
I know someone that works in a major grocery store. Those items were probably meant to be put out earlier but the box was possibly stored in the wrong place in the warehouse (which happens often). When it was found, the items were stocked later.
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#12
The only thing left on the shelves due to corona virus. At least it’s not *that* bad yet.
“The problem is not necessarily that people wish to stock up or prepare for a likely pandemic, rather the problem is that people are uncertain about the future and, if they are risk-averse, are more than likely going to overstock more than they require.”
He continued: “Of course, overstocking [i.e. stockpiling] has a knock-on effect such that the greater the number of individuals who are overstocking the more likely it is that supermarkets will run out of stock and end up with empty shelves. This will cause a feedback loop for the individual confirming what they already believe to be true and make them more willing to stock up.”
#13
Even in the apocalypse nobody wants ham and pineapple
Russian Otaku 5 years ago
People working for that company should go to jail for the crime of even publically defacing pizza and selling it too
#14
Sardonic Scribe 5 years ago
So sorry, Canadian here... what exactly is wrong with Manhattan Clam Chowder?
Mer 5 years ago
There's nothing actually wrong with it except it calls itself a "clam chowder" when really it's a thin, runny "tomato and broth based vegetable soup with calms unnecessarily added to it". The real clam chowd'ah is a thick, rich cream-based luxurious bath for clams and crackers and may taste faintly of smoky bacon or pork-belly, depending on how it's made. (It's also an amazing showcase for buttah, too!)
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Wendy Emlinger 5 years ago
I prefer the Manhattan Clam Chowder because the cream laden clam chowders are indigestible for me. Cow's milk (and meat) cause me gastric distress, but the tomato based clam chowder doesn't. I wish the Manhattan Clam Chowder was easier to find. Most stores only carry the awful milk based soups.
DjLaureth Jezebelle 5 years ago
It is not chowder, its nasty clam soup. And no, we still don't like it. It was anathema when I was a child and I'm also 40+ years, lol. Bucky who?
Amelie 5 years ago
Ok, can I just say, can people PLEASE stop calling it an apocalypse!! Seriously, it's not an apocalypse. A lot of places and schools haven't even been shut down yet!!
Teresa Taylor 5 years ago
But it's FUN calling things "apocalypse." Last week, I stubbed my toe, my coworkers laughed, it WAS an apocalypse. The funerals were yesterday.
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Tiny Dynamine 5 years ago
It sounds disgusting, whatever it is. There's so many American products that I have no clue what they are. It makes you think why these things don't get exported, because no-one else would touch them with a s****y stick.
April Simnel 5 years ago
It's a tomato-based vegetable stew that has clams in it. Nothing weird about it at all.
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Real commentary on the human condition - no matter what kind of mixed vegetables you buy, there’s ALWAYS too many carrots
Pillowhead 5 years ago
The grocery store near my place ran out of carrots. I guess Bugs Bunny lives near me
John L 5 years ago
Okay, I can understand canned foods, pasta and meat. You can freeze meat, but why is all the fresh produce gone? I went to get some carrots and tomatoes...all gone. Even tomatillos. How many people even know what those are???? I have a feeling there is going to be a lot of full trashcans in two weeks with rotten foot.
Carrie de Luka 5 years ago
Carrots at least keep quite well if stored correctly.
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OWLbystarlight 5 years ago
Not in our case! We were selling out of every type except the baby carrots for some reason.
According to Dr. Savage, stockpiling also leads to an additional problem: it limits the availability of goods to disadvantaged groups, such as the poor and the elderly. “While this may not directly add to the further spread of the virus it may create a problem in the future when the pandemic is in full swing and the individual runs out of certain goods forcing them to leave the safety of their home and enter the public arena which may expose them to the virus.”
“Uncertainty and a lack of information are the true enemies in regard to public behavior. It is what we don't understand that we fear and what we do not know that creates bias. The best solution may well be as simple as public education campaigns delivered in the simplest way possible and framed in a positive light rather than a negative one.”
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European other 5 years ago
There is currently no water shortage, inless you live in a tent or similar accommodation
John L 5 years ago
This is the part I don't understand. Water service isn't going to be interrupted. This is a pandemic, not a hurricane or earthquake.... To each, their own.
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Dave Chapman 5 years ago
Never had a bottled water that tastes any different than my tap water run thru a Brita or Zero Water filter and I don't add 1000 plastic bottles a year to the Global Plastic Pandemic!
Rob Chapman 5 years ago (edited)
Or soda apparently. Looks like the Coke & Pepsi aisle is fully stocked
Marcellus the Third 5 years ago
And "nobody drinks coke" judging by the background? This is a bit weak...
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Johanne Trudeau 5 years ago
I'll take them, I love lima beans!!! They're hard to find in the best of times...
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Brandy Grote 5 years ago
Great for bruises,or in my veggie beef soup. Mmm... or with bangers and mash!
Katinka Min 5 years ago
Huh? That must have been a spontaneous refill. Or they are really expensive. Everybody I know has frozen peas in their freezer at pretty much any time. Even if it's just to cool a black eye! :-D
#19
Poor Takis! No one wants them
Carrie de Luka 5 years ago
Had to look them up - seem perfectly acceptable for a snack!
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Jim Ellington 5 years ago
I used to eat my share of Takis until just getting tired of them one day, the day I noticed they tasted like battery acid.
Sky Loveridge 5 years ago
I know 30 people (me included of course) who would gladly take all of those takis
DjLaureth Jezebelle 5 years ago
And they left the best flavour too! Will trade for Manhattan Clam "Chowder".
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Aimee hester 5 years ago
Dude. With eggs and cheese? BAM! Breakfast scramble. In with dried beans and some spices? Boom! Chili. In with dried beans and Other spices? BAM! Bomb a*s, healthy beans. Potatoes, eggs and tortillas? BAM! Breakfast burritos. Any protein, rice, soy sauce + wine? POW! You got yourself some stir fry. Where is the imagination?! People are weird.
Fairy Mimi 5 years ago
I buy these several at a time for sir fry, rice meals, chili everything!
Kevin Beard 5 years ago
That's funny. We just made a list of stuff to stock up a little on, and those were on it.
Carol Emory 5 years ago
Those are the people that don't know how to cook. Those are the people your mother warned you about. Stay far far away from those people.....
Wendy Emlinger 5 years ago
I keep frozen onions on hand for soups, and chiles and the like. Beats cutting onions up.
Doris Culverhouse 5 years ago
wow. no spice in our life right now. we need low odor diet for confined spaces.
#21
Dear Arrow water, people would rather risk death than drink your nasty tasting water
Pungent Sauce 5 years ago
It’s spring water, and 25% the price of Fiji. Whatever, more for me.
Sue Prewitt 5 years ago
Why are people hording water? There is nothing wrong with the water systems
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Kathy Baylis 5 years ago (edited)
They’re good with sweet (but not fruit) cream cheese flavors, like cinnamon sugar flavor. (If memory serves, that is. I can’t eat gluten anymore; it makes me sick now.)
Pamela Felt 2 years ago
Ike I keep saying it depends on what store this is we love those bagels
#23
Patrick McKemie 5 years ago
Or, maybe just maybe, the Amy's Kitchen delivery person is on their game! Now would be a great time to empty out your inventory.
Johanne Trudeau 5 years ago
Hahaha!!! Just add some pepperoni and bacon on top of the veggies... BTW that's not vegan that's vegetarian...
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Rabbit Carrot 5 years ago
It’s actually quite nice with a bit of butter and pepper sprinkled on top.
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Rabbit Carrot 5 years ago (edited)
It’s £1.70. When everything around it is between 53-75p the top end ranges will be the last to go and rightly so.
GFSTaylor 5 years ago
Last night my supermarket was sold out of the plain own brand soups, but there was still plenty of Heinz soups and the more expensive own brand.
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Susan Riley 5 years ago
Even the fancy, expensive pasta was gone on our store shelves. I did find one broken-open bag of black bean pasta.
Tina Harbour 5 years ago
Gnocchi is awesome in creamy soup! A big pan of lasagna is easy and lasts for days! People really are nuts!
Shelley Jennings 5 years ago
Nobody can cook anymore. Convenience meals... Microwave.. Oven ready meals..
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JessG 5 years ago
It's like "zoodles". Like spaghetti squash, zucchini, and carrots made to look like noodles for a healthier "pasta" option.
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Pungent Sauce 5 years ago
Because corned beef is 2x the normal price til after St. Patty’s Day, when it will be 1/2 the normal price. ‘Murica!
Jennifer Sacrison 5 years ago
Mmmmmmmm...corned beef!!! Throw some taters in it and fry it up with some eggs!!!
Sheila McCarthy 5 years ago
That looks like our Aldi. Which was great since I needed one for yesterday. $1 pound off too.
Becca Gizmo the Squirrel 5 years ago
Chicken feet were the only thing left on the meat aisle at Wal-Mart yesterday. If you can call it a meat.
MizAdeleM 5 years ago
That's all I could find at the Stop & Shop, so I am making Corned Beef and Cabbage today. I call that a win!
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Jennifer Sacrison 5 years ago
I'll munch on those!!! Good for a snake before dinner or a midnight snack!!!
#30
Tiny Dynamine 5 years ago
Water's not exactly something we don't already have at home, though.
Kathy Baylis 5 years ago
Well, some of us have well water that passes the official tests but tastes terrible, and the mineral buildup from it has already killed several coffee makers and clogged up our pipes. However, people don’t realize that water is also sold in gallon jugs. Just fine if you have a reusable water bottle.
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Gary M. Climer 5 years ago
Went to the store and found pizza bagels and seltzer! Out of Zima though. Gotta love them mob's!
Heather Hayllar 5 years ago
Tiny Dynamite, it's obvious you have not tasted the water from the tap here! It is awful
Bill Taylor 5 years ago
Apparently people haven't heard of tap water, a stove and a pot to boil water in...
Sheila McCarthy 5 years ago
Get used to tap water. You pay for that monthly, why drink overpriced bottled water??
Perfumista Perfumista 5 years ago
Shame I can't get there now. The bllod orange seltzer makes beet powder worth drinking
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Pungent Sauce 5 years ago
They’re delicious, but apparently not worth the extra $0.50 to the budget-minded apocalypse buyer.
SirPatTheCat 5 years ago
Wait those things are actually kinda good, but they're also kinda like salt and vinegar chips where you gotta get used to the feeling of an intense sour peeling off the first layer of your mouth
Pretty Pangolin 5 years ago
Have you tried pickle flavored chips? They're intense!
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Fairy Mimi 5 years ago (edited)
As a celiac without this offered in my area I'm saddened. A lot of the breaded stuff tastes the same as the real thing nowadays. From what I remember gluten tasting like. Tyson gf chicken tenders are the bomb. People just don't understand what gluten free means. Or how to stock food apparently.
Walkus-Andrew Andrea 5 years ago
Anything gluten-free is yucky if your healtb still allows you to have it
Jennifer Sacrison 5 years ago
I want my gluten but I love halibut so I'd snap those suckers up!!!
James Pointer 5 years ago
To be honest, it's kind of nice to see they haven't bought up all the gluten free stuff, as it means people who actually can't eat gluten have items still available to eat. We are all complaining everyone's panic buying stuff we want, but for people with allergies the options are vastly more limited normally.
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Victoria Swift 5 years ago
It's just the store. Normal non snotty grocery stores are sold out.
Vivi Da Poo 5 years ago
I just ate like 12 sausages and still hungry! Give them all yo then...XD
It's me NOT mario 5 years ago
IT WAS THE HOT DOGS THEY STARTED THE VIRUS THEY DIDN'T WANT TO BE COOKED ALIVEEEEEEEEEEEe
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Shelley Jennings 5 years ago
Organic, vegan, gluten free... I'm starting to see a pattern here 🤣
Kathy Baylis 5 years ago (edited)
Having developed a sensitivity to gluten relatively late in life (gluten makes me miserably sick now), I do have to say a lot of GF alternatives taste like s**t. So even I would give some of these a hard pass.
Clare Gillian Pomfrett 5 years ago
My hubby has to have gluten free as he's coeliac and also diabetic. It's difficult to get gluten free bread - and it's more expensive.
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Rabbit Carrot 5 years ago
When the orange moron is calling it the ‘Chinese virus’ what do you expect. Stuff that doesn’t sell like this should go to the homeless shelter where non idiots will appreciate it.
Martha Meyer 5 years ago
This is in Germany. No one here cares what Trump calls it.
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Kathy Baylis 5 years ago
So, maybe Super Soft brand ain’t as super soft as the company tries to make us think...
Baali Venomax 5 years ago
They took everything BUT the toilet paper? Finally hoarders with sense!
Becca Gizmo the Squirrel 5 years ago
Or maybe they just put that there. St it wasn't there 2 hours later.
#39
The only produce left at my local grocery store is onions because nobody wants that trash
Ana Ferreira 5 years ago
What? How are these people cooking with no onions? Half the dishes here start with onions, garlic and tomato.
JessG 5 years ago
What the hell?!?! My store ran out a while ago!! Where is this and why don't people want onions? It's a staple!
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Steve Barnett 5 years ago
The amount of fresh food that is going to be thrown away really upsets me.
Dianna Siever 5 years ago
Really? With people having so much more time at home, I really think they'll be much more likely to use it... Except maybe for people who panic bought things they know nothing about, like artichokes or something.
Load More Replies... Anne 5 years ago
Shops should use this indeed as a marker to what products to discontinue or stock less.
Rissie 5 years ago
Grocery stores have sophisticated inventory systems and know exactly what to keep in stock. Just because a certain group of panicking people doesn't eat pineapple pizza, doesn't make it an unsellable product, it makes it a product that's not bought by people who panic quickly. You are mistaken these people for the average joe just because they had a big impact. They clearly and luckily are not.
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Pat Tamarin 5 years ago
Some of these things look like they're the only things "left" because they were just restocked.
RaroaRaroa 5 years ago
There's always the possibility, with some of these items, that that was just the first thing that was restocked after the rush.
Pittsburgh rare 5 years ago
I actually like some of the things left on the shelves. Not that pineapple pizza though.
Charlotte A. 5 years ago
Herd mentality? "Oh everyone buys that, I need to get the last one!" & "Oh nobody buys that, I'd better avoid it, too, then..."
Steve Barnett 5 years ago
The amount of fresh food that is going to be thrown away really upsets me.
Dianna Siever 5 years ago
Really? With people having so much more time at home, I really think they'll be much more likely to use it... Except maybe for people who panic bought things they know nothing about, like artichokes or something.
Load More Replies... Anne 5 years ago
Shops should use this indeed as a marker to what products to discontinue or stock less.
Rissie 5 years ago
Grocery stores have sophisticated inventory systems and know exactly what to keep in stock. Just because a certain group of panicking people doesn't eat pineapple pizza, doesn't make it an unsellable product, it makes it a product that's not bought by people who panic quickly. You are mistaken these people for the average joe just because they had a big impact. They clearly and luckily are not.
Load More Replies... Pat Tamarin 5 years ago
Some of these things look like they're the only things "left" because they were just restocked.
RaroaRaroa 5 years ago
There's always the possibility, with some of these items, that that was just the first thing that was restocked after the rush.
Pittsburgh rare 5 years ago
I actually like some of the things left on the shelves. Not that pineapple pizza though.
Charlotte A. 5 years ago
Herd mentality? "Oh everyone buys that, I need to get the last one!" & "Oh nobody buys that, I'd better avoid it, too, then..."
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