food shortage in supermarkets

[Love Labradors]

keep seeing this on the news and certainly i am having problems getting what i want from online home deliveries

i get two deliveries a week - Waitrose and Tesco

both have shortages of

a) chicken especially thighs

b) lemons

c) limes

d) french croissants

e) kippers

f) spring water

g) flavoured sparkling water

h) Italian wine

i) Golden Virginia tobacco

j) octopus

all the delivery drivers say the problem is a shortage of lorry drivers

one guy has a brother who delivers from Europe and can spend up to two days waiting in France to get clearance to enter the UK

Boris please sort out this mess

[devnull]

Maybe we should consider joining the EU, sounds like this free trade malarkey would solve a lot of problems!

[Matt_E_Mulsion]

The big Tesco in the town where I work had no granulated sugar - either in the 1kg bags or 2kg bags on Monday morning when I nipped in. They still didn't half way through the week when I popped in again. Morrisons didn't have any 2kg bags yesterday either. There is obviously a sugar supply issue somewhere.

[21TonyK]

Local co-op, no cucumber, lemonade or bagged salad. No more deliveries expected until Tuesday now either.

[Turn7]

Stop buying st meat from Supermarkets and use a good butcher for a start.

The Fizzy water issue is 2 fold as IM led to believe.

Firstly there is an alleged shortage of raw plastic for the bottles, and alos one of the biggest C02 producers had a big fire and are out of production currently.

As for the rest, it just shows how little genuine actual thought went into Brexit other than pure bullst spin.

[Chainsaw Rebuild]

I think it will sort it's self out fairly soon. Wages are rising for lorry drivers whish must be tempting existing drivers back behind the wheel. Also the testing centres are doing tests for aspiring truck drivers as fast as they can.

Long term I think it's a good thing to raise the wages for truckers which were too low.

Also, and this is a guess, it might get some freight off the road and onto the railway or even inland waterways, which is a good thing.

[Vasco]

Love Labradors said:

keep seeing this on the news and certainly i am having problems getting what i want from online home deliveries

i get two deliveries a week - Waitrose and Tesco

both have shortages of

a) chicken especially thighs

b) lemons

c) limes

d) french croissants

e) kippers

f) spring water

g) flavoured sparkling water

h) Italian wine

i) Golden Virginia tobacco

j) octopus

all the delivery drivers say the problem is a shortage of lorry drivers

one guy has a brother who delivers from Europe and can spend up to two days waiting in France to get clearance to enter the UK

Boris please sort out this mess

What do you expect Boris to do ?

[dapprman]

Vasco said:

What do you expect Boris to do ?

He expects Boris to wave a magic wand and globally remove (as opposed to just cure) Covid, magically double the number of ports and and staff in them and then allow the global shipping industry to start working, rather that desperately try to deal with very expensive queues as ports do not have the staff
(due to covid) to work at normal capacity with the result an ever increasing number of ships are queuing up to unload. Actually the last sentence is not quite true and the number of ships sailing has been reduced to help alleviate this but instead that means container queues are building up at source and way point counties.

[Murph7355]

Vasco said:

What do you expect Boris to do ?

Seemingly rejoin the EU because one cannot get their octopus and spring water from Waitrose

[23.7]

Chainsaw Rebuild said:

I think it will sort it's self out fairly soon. Wages are rising for lorry drivers whish must be tempting existing drivers back behind the wheel. Also the testing centres are doing tests for aspiring truck drivers as fast as they can.

Long term I think it's a good thing to raise the wages for truckers which were too low.

Also, and this is a guess, it might get some freight off the road and onto the railway or even inland waterways, which is a good thing.

This could work, our local Morrisons has a canal within walking distance.

I wonder if they've even bothered to ask CRT to drop off roll cages of produce. They could bring the stuff up the Avon from Evesham, or out of season from the fruit and veg market in Brum.

[Sheepshanks]

Love Labradors said:

keep seeing this on the news and certainly i am having problems getting what i want from online home deliveries

i get two deliveries a week - Waitrose and Tesco

both have shortages of

a) chicken especially thighs

b) lemons

c) limes

d) french croissants

e) kippers

f) spring water

g) flavoured sparkling water

h) Italian wine

i) Golden Virginia tobacco

j) octopus

all the delivery drivers say the problem is a shortage of lorry drivers

one guy has a brother who delivers from Europe and can spend up to two days waiting in France to get clearance to enter the UK

Boris please sort out this mess

Don't use any of those so we're alright.

[Vasco]

Murph7355 said:

Vasco said:

What do you expect Boris to do ?

Seemingly rejoin the EU because one cannot get their octopus and spring water from Waitrose

Quite! - sounded like it probably came from a sulking Remainer......

[Ham_and_Jam]

Not had a single thing missing off my weekly deliveries from Ocado for weeks now, and that is even after the huge fire at their Erith warehouse.

Then again I don’t buy octopus or Golden Virginia.

[Short Grain]

Love Labradors said:

keep seeing this on the news and certainly i am having problems getting what i want from online home deliveries

i get two deliveries a week - Waitrose and Tesco

both have shortages of

i) Golden Virginia tobacco

all the delivery drivers say the problem is a shortage of lorry drivers

one guy has a brother who delivers from Europe and can spend up to two days waiting in France to get clearance to enter the UK

Boris please sort out this mess

Golden Virginia Tobacco was the only thing I couldn't get but only in 30g pouches for some reason. 50g, no problem. BJ won't be bothered about hand rolling tobacco. Don't suppose his mates would be happy if it was cigars though

[monkfish1]

Love Labradors said:

keep seeing this on the news and certainly i am having problems getting what i want from online home deliveries

i get two deliveries a week - Waitrose and Tesco

both have shortages of

a) chicken especially thighs

b) lemons

c) limes

d) french croissants

e) kippers

f) spring water

g) flavoured sparkling water

h) Italian wine

i) Golden Virginia tobacco

j) octopus

all the delivery drivers say the problem is a shortage of lorry drivers

one guy has a brother who delivers from Europe and can spend up to two days waiting in France to get clearance to enter the UK

Boris please sort out this mess

There is no shortage of drivers. Just a shortage of drivers willing to work for the pay and conditions on offer.

Supply and demand. Pay more and they will come.

[sunbeam alpine]

monkfish1 said:

Love Labradors said:

keep seeing this on the news and certainly i am having problems getting what i want from online home deliveries

i get two deliveries a week - Waitrose and Tesco

both have shortages of

a) chicken especially thighs

b) lemons

c) limes

d) french croissants

e) kippers

f) spring water

g) flavoured sparkling water

h) Italian wine

i) Golden Virginia tobacco

j) octopus

all the delivery drivers say the problem is a shortage of lorry drivers

one guy has a brother who delivers from Europe and can spend up to two days waiting in France to get clearance to enter the UK

Boris please sort out this mess

There is no shortage of drivers. Just a shortage of drivers willing to work for the pay and conditions on offer.

Supply and demand. Pay more and they will come.

Really?

Apologies for the Daily Mail link...

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9937313/W...

[Love Labradors]

well, farmer friends are describing conditions as in the old Soviet Union - food rotting in the ground because they cannot get people to harvest said food

some took issue with my 'Boris sort it out comment'

well allow EU drivers and food workers access to the UK market rather than telling UK companies to employ UK workers

you cannot make UK people learn to drive an HGV or work in the fields - so labour must be outsourced

its pure business sense/economics

when we were still in the EU i knew in Eastern European 'gang master' - fully legal

he organised food harvesting teams mainly in Lincolnshire - he stopped employing UK workers as too often at Monday morning pick up they did not turn up after weekend boozing binges (their words)

my ex next door neighbours love interest tried working in the rural economy and packed in because she hated getting wet/cold and it damaged her nails!

[Love Labradors]

Turn7 said:

Stop buying st meat from Supermarkets and use a good butcher for a start.

The Fizzy water issue is 2 fold as IM led to believe.

Firstly there is an alleged shortage of raw plastic for the bottles, and alos one of the biggest C02 producers had a big fire and are out of production currently.

As for the rest, it just shows how little genuine actual thought went into Brexit other than pure bullst spin.

i agree ref butchers but in my area there are non that are even slightly better than supermarkets

its a postcode lottery

[Love Labradors]

Ham_and_Jam said:

Not had a single thing missing off my weekly deliveries from Ocado for weeks now, and that is even after the huge fire at their Erith warehouse.

Then again I don’t buy octopus or Golden Virginia.

well done. lol

[Love Labradors]

just updating my two orders this week and now Walkers Crips are not in stock or very limited supplies

as to my detractors, when Nando's/MacDonald's have problems it says something about the problem?

and i am most certainly not a 'Remainer' but i do have realistic expectations of food being on shop shelves

again - if UK people will not train to drive HGV's or pick crops then we have to use imported labour