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by ROBERT103 » Wed, 25 Mar 2020 9:11 am
Seems everyone is panic buying again, looks like the panic buy is going to go on for a while.
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by bgd » Wed, 25 Mar 2020 11:40 am
Having just come back from the supermarket I see little evidence of that. Generally stocked shelves and no queues.
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by x9200 » Wed, 25 Mar 2020 12:22 pm
bgd wrote: ↑Wed, 25 Mar 2020 11:40 am
Having just come back from the supermarket I see little evidence of that. Generally stocked shelves and no queues.
Perhaps because many switched to online purchasing. You have to make some serious hunt to get any slot in places like Redmart or Amazon Prime. The choice is also significantly reduced.
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by Spanisheyes » Wed, 25 Mar 2020 5:08 pm
ROBERT103 wrote: ↑Wed, 25 Mar 2020 9:11 am
Seems everyone is panic buying again, looks like the panic buy is going to go on for a while.
Yeah.. seemingly i think the panic buy will go on until the virus died down.
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by abbby » Wed, 25 Mar 2020 5:48 pm
x9200 wrote: ↑Wed, 25 Mar 2020 12:22 pm
bgd wrote: ↑Wed, 25 Mar 2020 11:40 am
Having just come back from the supermarket I see little evidence of that. Generally stocked shelves and no queues.
Perhaps because many switched to online purchasing. You have to make some serious hunt to get any slot in places like Redmart or Amazon Prime. The choice is also significantly reduced.
I had a little difficulty online, there were no time slot and I was literally (truly) running out of toilet paper...

I waited 2 days before I could get a slot.
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by bgd » Wed, 25 Mar 2020 7:43 pm
abbby wrote: ↑Wed, 25 Mar 2020 5:48 pm
I had a little difficulty online, there were no time slot and I was literally (truly) running out of toilet paper...

I waited 2 days before I could get a slot.
Or you could have just gone to your local supermarket and picked up a packet or two. No shortage this morning.

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by sundaymorningstaple » Wed, 25 Mar 2020 11:06 pm
Agreed. NTUC-NEX almost all shelves fully restocked. Only Corn beef, individually frozen Sandia chicken wings and Toman (Snakehead) Otherwise, plenty of sanitizer, paper goods, meats, poultry, veggies and fruits in abundance.
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by x9200 » Thu, 26 Mar 2020 9:30 am
bgd wrote: ↑Wed, 25 Mar 2020 7:43 pm
abbby wrote: ↑Wed, 25 Mar 2020 5:48 pm
I had a little difficulty online, there were no time slot and I was literally (truly) running out of toilet paper...

I waited 2 days before I could get a slot.
Or you could have just gone to your local supermarket and picked up a packet or two. No shortage this morning.
It's sort of ironic that I hardly ever visited physical shops like this in past few years and now when I am supposed to avoid mingling with people I am forced to do so

Anyway, looks like the said on-line shops basically ration the slots. They appear available semi-random way and it goes in packs so not like somebody canceled one making it available to the others.
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