We've seen it before with the great panic buying of toilet roll at the start of the pandemic and then later reports of shortages of fuel in a couple of petrol stations sparking idiotic buying of fuel. Now we have reports in the media of a couple of individual supermarket branches selling out of bottled water and the next thing you know is that it's spread countrywide. WTF!

Apparently all this started because of fears of a drought. Ok, so certain regions have a hose pipe ban but that doesn't mean that you can't get water out of your tap! Bottled water is also considerably dearer than tap water and it has nothing to do with people buying it because they are hot because supermarkets didn't have the problem over the recent heatwave. Am I missing something?