Supermarket shortages

[Ari]

Are we in for supermarket shortages now? Was in Sainsburys earlier, a lot of bare shelves and a lot of basic stuff out of stock. Baked beans, ready salted crisps, tinned tuna, Kitkats etc etc.

I was chatting to the checkout lady and she reckoned there were big problems with a lack of truck drivers which was adversely affecting deliveries.

Wondered whether other places were experiencing the same?

[Ari]

NerveAgent said:

I guess we’re in for more panic buying

These things do have a nasty tendency of becoming a self fulfilling prophesy.

And yes, the toilet roll shelves were conspicuously bare...

[Ari]

ambuletz said:

Shortage is total nonsense. I was in my local asda 20min ago. Every shelf was fully stocked, I would say the water isle was probably about 80% full. ALthough i wanted to treat myself to a bottle of VOSS (never had it, but i do want the bottle) and couldn't find it anywhere.

WHERE IS MY VOSS

You do understand that we don't all shop in your local Asda, right..?

[Ari]

anonymoususer said:

The press are a total disgrace their behaviour throughout the pandemic has been truly awful

It's important to understand (and few do) that the job of the press is not to report news, it's to sell newspapers, gain website clicks, broadcast to the most people, as appropriate.

They are a business and their business is to make you look. That's it.

[Ari]

Pit Pony said:

Loads of people off. Said that they are just taking advantage. Nice weather. Still get paid.
Some not all taking the piss he said.

Completely inevitable isn't it?

[Ari]

On Friday, my local Sainsburys was very low on, or completely missing, some fairly standard stuff like tomato ketchup, baked beans, KitKats (2 finger, oddly they were fine for 4 finger), canned tuna, breaded cod, toilet rolls, and quite a bit more.

[Ari]

To be fair, they could have wandered in to my local Sainsburys and taken some empty shelves photos if they'd wanted but I guess if they have stock photos, why bother? Empty shelves look a lot like empty shelves at any time of the year.

[Ari]

Twig62 said:

Sainsbury's cut back on staff after the disastrous failed merger with Asda to try and recoup some of the millions it had cost them. Unfortunately this has resulted in empty shelves in their stores for months now as they have too few staff to keep them stocked up.

The one I visit has been absolutely fine up until the last couple of weeks.

[Ari]

Sainsburys today, completely back to normal. Didn't see any bare shelves and didn't fail to find anything that I'd gone for.

Good news.

[Ari]

markcoznottz said:

It’s hard to see Sainsbury’s usp nowadays..

Does it need one?

I shop at Sainsbury's because it's decent quality, has a wide range, reasonable prices, big car park and it's local.

Nothing unique about any of that, and yet I still continue to shop there.

[Ari]

StevieBee said:

Monkeylegend said:

BigBen said:

Ari said:

markcoznottz said:

It’s hard to see Sainsbury’s usp nowadays..

Does it need one?

I shop at Sainsbury's because it's decent quality, has a wide range, reasonable prices, big car park and it's local.

Nothing unique about any of that, and yet I still continue to shop there.

Second nicest supermarket behind Waitrose?

You get a better class of people at both.

I always thought the purpose of Sainsbury's was to keep the riff-raff out of Waitrose.

Then it's working!

[Ari]

Apparently the gas crisis is the latest threat to fully stocked supermarket shelves!

Not too sure how they’re related, but watch this space (literally!)

[Ari]

blueg33 said:

CO2 is used in packaging to extend shelf life for everything from salad to pizza

The price we pay for not being energy secure. Warned that this would happen years ago when a couple of nuclear projects were stopped by public pressure.

We don’t have much North Sea oil any more and when the wind doesn’t blow or the sun doesn’t shine, we have a problem.

That makes sense, thank you for explaining it (I just saw the headlines online this morning).

As ever, there are now two issues, the actual issue plus the fact that, threatened with shortages, the world will descend and create those shortages in everything, whether real or not.

I bet the toilet rolls go too..!

[Ari]

Ari said:

That makes sense, thank you for explaining it (I just saw the headlines online this morning).

As ever, there are now two issues, the actual issue plus the fact that, threatened with shortages, the world will descend and create those shortages in everything, whether real or not.

I bet the toilet rolls go too..!

Big shop in a big Sainsburys this morning, and the only obviously empty shelves were...

Toilet rolls!

Who was it who said that it's impossible to overestimate the stupidity of the general public?

[Ari]

Exactly! Bloody idiots!

Anyway, I bought up the entire remaining stock of toilet rolls, just in case. I had to make three trips home with them!

[Ari]

steveo3002 said:

few freezers looking sparse today...yet i could fill a trolley with Halloween tat , so that must be taking priority over food and drink

Surely that demonstrates the opposite?

People are buying the freezer contents (leaving them empty), but not the Halloween tat (hence plenty left)

[Ari]

Would they not be more focussed on stock that is selling (and will spoil if left in the warehouse)?

[Ari]

Cotty said:

Thats unusual, most boats I have been on have an onboard water tank you fill up.

They do, but would you want to drink directly out of it with no knowledge of what's been in it for the last decade or how ever old the boat is, or currently in it?

Fine for washing your hands or whatever, but very few people would use it as drinking water.