Coronavirus fears have caused shoppers to begin stockpiling, which has forced supermarkets to put restrictions on some products.
Due to ‘panic buying’ because of coronavirus, major supermarkets across the UK have started limiting purchases.
Tesco has limited sales of antibacterial products, including hand sanitiser, dried pasta, long life milk, children’s machines, bottled water and tinned vegetables.
Any customers wanting to buy these Tesco products are now limited to five items per person both in-store and online.
Tesco also confirmed that the demand for home deliveries had ‘more than doubled’, after a customer asked about the lack of delivery slots.
Asda has restricted sales of hand sanitiser to two bottles per person, but so far that’s the only product they’ve chosen to limit.
Meanwhile, online supermarket Ocado has limited several products on their website.
Shoppers can only buy two packs of toilet roll, two bottles of antibacterial gel, and three bottles of children’s medicine Calpol.
According to Sky News, the Morrisons website is limiting purchases of hand wash and children’s medicine.
However, the retailer has claimed this is unrelated to coronavirus.
