Meat stripped from supermarket shelves amid coronavirus panic

Customers are now only allowed two packs of mince per person.It comes as Australians brace for a lockdown much like Italy, France and Spain — the hardest hit countries in Europe — in an attempt to flatten the curve.

Queues curled around the supermarket at the Woolworths Marrickville Metro. Monday 16 March, 2020. Picture: Alex Turner-Cohen/news.com.auSome customers took one look at the queue and declared they would come back later. Monday 16 March, 2020. Picture: Alex Turner-Cohen/news.com.auSome companies are encouraging employees to work from home such as Ernston Young and NBN, causing more people to believe a lockdown might be imminent.Source:news.com.

My dogs eat fresh meat. Totally sick of all the idiots who are disadvantaging the rest of the intelligent population.

Well it's a good thing I don't eat meat anymore 😃 Still this panic buying has gone well overboard, so unnecessary 😐 Idiots!

Yours is starting to show Coles

I’m sure you’ll survive without it 🙄

Where have all the lamb chops gone? Picked by corona-freaks everyone! When will they ever learn? When will they ever learn? 😷😱

Not good

Toilet paper and meat. The first things u lose in a crisis is power and water.

Hope everyone has enough freezer space to store all that meat, otherwise it'll go off fairly quickly. Meat has a shelf life.

They really don’t trust the government messaging...

Ahhh what a way to make you Vegan 🌱 lol

Gross.

So why aren’t we more annoyed at Coles and woolies? Supply and demand? Stack the f$&king shelves and stop rationing everything... if it’s from here then get more? That’s what we were told by them..this is a failure on their behalf to resupply the shelves but blame the customer.

Can you guys please stop with clickbait articles like this? Its not doing anyone any good.

My local butcher has plenty. Not telling you where though.😉

Lunchtime today at Woolies

Same here in Costco in Canberra. Aldi was better stocked up. My question is: Why?

If we didn't export most of it to feed those overseas, we might not have to take these steps. Food security for all Australians must be a priority for the Govt. ScottMorrisonMP auspol AlboMP PaulineHansonOz

Journos loving this, no need to research and work for stories. Can just walk into a shop and report empty shelves. Or even better, start with breaking and add a new famous name to the infected

Why tho? Aren’t these perishable ?

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