Tesco
Will impose restrictions on all customers to buying a maximum of three products per line from Thursday.
Limit for key products; disinfectants, hand sanitisers, long life milk, tinned vegetables and pasta.
It was forced to take its mobile app offline temporarily due to high demand on Tuesday, and announced it would be reducing the hours of all of its 24-hour stores to 6am to 10pm.
Waitrose
Limit of between 2 and 12 units across 400 products, mainly toiletries, cleaning products, tinned food and pasta.
The supermarket also said it was drafting in 1,200 staff ‘and growing’ from sister retailer John Lewis to help it cope with demand.
Morrisons
Rationed purchases on 1,250 items.
Limit of 2 per customer for toilet rolls, tissues, hand sanitisers; 4 for baby milk formula, bars of soap, handwash; 6 for bleach and other cleaners.
Shoppers seeking a Morrisons home delivery have been instructed to tell the store if they are self-isolating so goods can be left on the doorstep.
Creating 3,500 jobs to meet surging demand for its home delivery service.
Recruiting 2,500 pickers and drivers while hiring about 1,000 people to work in distribution centres.
Plans for new call centre for those without access to online shopping, plus the launch of a new range of simple-to-order food parcels from next Monday.
Asda
Restricting all customers to buying up to three items on all food, toiletries and cleaning products.
The limit will not apply to fresh fruit/vegetables.
Close cafes and pizza counters to free space and staff to help keep shelves fully stocked.
Temporarily reduced opening hours of all its 24-hour stores, so they will be closed between 12am and 6am each day for re-stocking.
Sainsbury’s
Limiting shoppers to three items.
A cap of two is going to be imposed on the most popular items, such as toilet roll, soap and UHT milk.
600 stores will only open to the elderly and vulnerable for the first hour of trading on Thursday, but will open for an hour longer so other shoppers do not miss out.
Meat, fish and pizza counters and cafes are being closed from Thursday to free up lorry and warehouse capacity, as well as shelf-stacking time, for essential items to be replenished.
Plans in place to beef up ‘click and collect’ service, and these two groups will be given priority access when new slots become available.
Iceland
Hand sanitisers and some cleaning products, four per person, online
Supermarkets allowed elderly customers exclusive use of the shop between 9am and 11am before the general public were allowed in.
The scheme, which will run every Wednesday until further notice, has been rolled out at Iceland stores across the country.
In Boots, bottles of children’s paracetamol Calpol were being sold at only one at a time.
Co-op
Limit of 2 per customer on essentials including hand sanitiser, soap, antibacterial wipes, toilet/kitchen roll, tinned goods, pasta, rice, Long Life milk, sugar, baby items.
Aldi
Limit of 4 units for every product from milk and bread to baked beans.
Lidl
Quantities may be restricted to 6 per customer.
Ocado
Limit of 2 for antibacterial handwash, hand sanitiser, antibacterial cleaning sprays and wipes, tissues, toilet roll and kitchen roll.