re: #207 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Local supermarket had a sign up limiting purchases of said items.

Here it was mostly hoarding, in the ‘States I am convinced that people were buying it up in bulk with an eye on reselling it at a profit.

When there was panic buying back in March, nearly all the supermarkets over here in Scotland implemented a similar policy for things like toilet paper and bottled water. As it happened, supermarkets were one of the few places that stayed open during the lockdown, so the panic buying subsided over time. In addition, local newsagents and grocery shops were also open and were quick to sell items that supermarkets had run out of.