Supermarkets partly to blame for panic buying amid coronavirus pandemic - Yorkshire Post Letters

From: David Craggs, Shafton Gate, Goldthorpe.
Supermarket shelves have been left empty through panic buying.Supermarket shelves have been left empty through panic buying.
Supermarket shelves have been left empty through panic buying.

The supermarkets are partly to blame for the panic buying that is taking place. As soon as that first individual went to the check-out with a trolley full of toilet rolls, the warning lights should have brightly flashed.

The manager should have been informed immediately and, being aware that if there was going to be a run on toilet rolls there would almost certainly be a run on important foodstuffs, he or she should have made the decision to restrict the number of a particular item customers could purchase.

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There is an awful lot of good advice being given, both on TV and in the papers, about what we should do or what we should not do, but sadly there are those among us who ignore advice and even directions from anyone (The Yorkshire Post, March 23).

As an 87-year-old, I am really trying my best to self-isolate but do have to go for supplies. The young folks who are easily bored do not seem to realise the gravity of the pandemic, and will insist on going out and mixing with their mates who may or may not have the virus.

They are too young to fear death and do not think of others at all. We no longer have the ability to enforce any law on the subject because we no longer have an effective police service.

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