Yesterday I saw a BBC clip about whether British people were stockpiling food in case there was a no deal Brexit or not. Food hoarding seems to have become a normal part of the culture for many. At first I thought it was a spoof or comedy show but it is for real, people are actually doing this. You can sometimes judge a person on what they are buying at the checkout. There was a man we knew that always bought some cat food when he went to buy his bottle of vodka to make it look like he was doing some normal shopping. He didn't have a cat. Young people, students on a Friday night with trolleys full of booze and fizzy drinks and pizzas. Yet what to make of a person with a conveyor belt full of tins of tuna and loo rolls? What to say to the great big fella who tells the interviewer that, 'My wife is trying to stockpile but I keep eating it'. We can laugh but there seems to be something tragic about the whole saga. 

https://www.bbc.com/news/av/business-4730