{"id":298513,"date":"2020-04-02T10:45:41","date_gmt":"2020-04-02T09:45:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.finder.com\/uk\/?p=298513"},"modified":"2025-02-27T23:14:56","modified_gmt":"2025-02-27T23:14:56","slug":"press-release-60-percent-of-brits-admit-to-stockpiling-in-the-lead-up-to-lockdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.finder.com\/uk\/media\/press-release-60-percent-of-brits-admit-to-stockpiling-in-the-lead-up-to-lockdown","title":{"rendered":"60% of Brits admit to stockpiling in the lead up to lockdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul><li>Hand sanitiser was the item most scarce, with almost two in five Brits (38%) unable to purchase<\/li><li>Canned goods were the most frequently bought items, with three fifths of stockpilers (59%) purchasing them<\/li><\/ul><div class=\"content has-padding-top-large\"><p><strong>2 April 2020, LONDON \u2013 <\/strong><\/p><p>Three in five Brits (60%) admit to stockpiling or panic buying to prepare for the UK going into lockdown, according to personal finance comparison website finder.com. This is equivalent to 31.2 million of us.<\/p><p>The average Brit spent \u00a357.09 on stockpiling items from toilet roll to pasta, meaning that a total of \u00a31.8 billion was spent.<\/p><p>Hand sanitiser appeared to be the item stockpilers and panic buyers were struggling to get their hands on most, as almost two in five (38%) were unable to buy alcohol-based hand gels.<\/p><p>Dry goods such as pasta and rice were the second most scarce items, with over a quarter of stockpilers and panic buyers (26%) struggling to get their hands on these products. Medical supplies such as paracetamol and thermometers were also in low supply, with 23% of Brits experiencing empty shelves when looking to buy these items.<\/p><p>The items bought most frequently were canned goods, with three fifths of stockpilers (59%) admitting to spending on these products. Next up was toilet paper (56%) and crisps (52%), with just over half of panic buyers purchasing the savoury snack.<\/p><p><strong>Gender<\/strong><br \/>Similar numbers of men and women admitted to stockpiling (59% vs 60%), but men spent an average of \u00a369.16, which is 51% more than the female average spend of \u00a345.78.<\/p><p><strong>Region<\/strong><br \/>Residents in Wales stockpiled the most with two thirds of the population (66%) admitting to doing so. However, it was Londoners who forked out more than any other region, with an average of \u00a3104.95 being spent by those living in the capital.<\/p><p>East Anglia&#8217;s residents were found to have stockpiled the least, with just over half (53%) admitting to panic buying. Similarly, these residents spent less than any other region with an average spend of \u00a329.50.<\/p><p><strong>Generation<\/strong><br \/>Over two thirds of generation X (67%) admitted to bulk buying items, making this the generation that stockpiled the most. Interestingly, millennials spent the most, with the average millennial forking out \u00a391.94.<\/p><p>The silent generation participated less in stockpiling and panic buying than other generations, they also spent the least. Less than half of this generation (49%) stockpiled and only \u00a322.23 was spent on average.<\/p><p><strong>Methodology<\/strong><br \/>Finder commissioned Onepoll on 26-30 March 2020 to carry out a nationally representative survey of adults aged 18+.<\/p><p>A total of 2,000 people were questioned throughout Great Britain, with representative quotas for gender, age and region.<\/p><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>60% of Brits admit to stockpiling in preparation for the UK going into lockdown.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":385,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_cover_media_provider":"image","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_cover_video_id":0,"apple_news_cover_video_url":"","apple_news_cover_embedwebvideo_url":"","apple_news_is_hidden":"","apple_news_is_paid":"","apple_news_is_preview":"","apple_news_is_sponsored":"","apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":[],"apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3788],"tags":[],"asset_tag":[],"class_list":["post-298513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media"],"apple_news_notices":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v24.9 (Yoast SEO v24.9) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>60% of Brits admit to stockpiling in the lead up to lockdown - Finder UK<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"60% of Brits admit to stockpiling in preparation for the UK going into lockdown. 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