Baguette it while you can! Some Limerick supermarkets run out of bread amid snow warning

The bread shelves in Dunnes Stores on Childers Road at 6.45pm this Friday

placeholder image — The bread shelves in Dunnes Stores on Childers Road at 6.45pm this Friday

Scenes are reminiscent of when Beast from the East hit the country in 2018

A FORECAST of snow and possible temperatures of -8ºC in the coming days has sparked a bread-buying frenzy in Limerick leaving some shops without a single slice pan.

As of 6.45pm this Friday evening there was one single batch of Simply Better handmade wholemeal sliced bread, pictured below, left on the shelves at Dunnes Stores on Childers Road in the city.

Shoppers are also reporting bread shortages and sell-outs in other stores in the city and county.

"It's just been crazy. We expect a delivery in the morning," commented one shop assistant in the Dunnes Stores on Childers Road when asked when they expected to restock the bread shelves.

The scenes prompted lots of chatter among customers with some reaching for their phones to take a photo to send to friends or post on their social media accounts.

"It's like Christmas again," said one customer to another as trolleys were bumper to bumper in the aisles with long queues of cars also forming on the road outside to enter the retail park.

Milk is also said to be running low in some outlets while toilet roll seems to be in good supply, for now.

The scenes are somewhat reminiscent of 2018 when the infamous Beast from the East struck and panicked shoppers cleared shelves of essentials like bread and milk and the most essential of all.. loo paper!