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Dairy shortage?

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BlowDryRat · 05/01/2021 10:48

In the past week:

  • No sour cream at Asda or Sainsbury's.
  • Sainsbury's substituted double cream with Elmea.
  • Gousto substituted natural yoghurt with coconut yoghurt.

What's going on?!

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DGRossetti · 05/01/2021 10:53

All the long life milk was stripped bare yesterday. Load of the usual almondy shit though (which tells you a lot). And they were out of Oatley Barista.

Who knows ? There's always a sort of trickle down where product (or size) goes out of stock, meaning people buy instead until the whole aisle looks a bit bare.

I was amused last lockdown at the product which didn't shift at the end. I could hear the collective voices of the nations saying "I'd die before I eat that muck"

BarbaraofSeville · 05/01/2021 11:13

They had lots of gaps (fresh fruit and veg, bread, toilet roll, instant noodles, milk, the usual stuff) when we went to Asda yesterday evening.

I can only assume that a lot of people heard the lockdown rumours earlier in the day and rushed out to stock up.

Which is bonkers because supermarkets never closed and there probably wouldn't be any shortages if people stuck to their normal buying patterns.

blueangel19 · 05/01/2021 11:45

All arrived in my shop with no substitutions. Not there is a dairy shortage so please do not make assumptions.

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BlowDryRat · 05/01/2021 11:53

Ok, I must just be getting unlucky!

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jollygreenpea · 05/01/2021 11:54

Well cows will definitely still be being milked.

DGRossetti

I'm intrigued what was still left? I will make a mental note and see if it's the same sort of stuff here Grin

DGRossetti · 05/01/2021 12:04

@jollygreenpea

Well cows will definitely still be being milked.

DGRossetti

I'm intrigued what was still left? I will make a mental note and see if it's the same sort of stuff here Grin

Left when ? Yesterday or back in March ?

Yesterday almost all the nice milk had gone. Just the shitty environment busting almond much.

Back in March the entire freezer section was empty apart from a small section of alternative carb sources - frozen parsnip chips or the like. It really did tell a tale. If I was in charge of product range management, I'd have used it as a fantastic way to know what products to lose ...

GETTINGLIKEMYMOTHER · 05/01/2021 12:23

I’m sure there’s been panic buying again.

We’ve had a weekly delivery of FR eggs with the milk for years.

Note from milkman this morning - no eggs, first time ever.

You don’t see non UK eggs in the shops - or at least I never have , regardless of cost/FR or not - so it can’t be a Brexit thing.

HHInvestigates · 05/01/2021 12:26

I work in the dairy industry: we're a long way off shortage. A combo of panic buying and the fact it has a short shelf life will create very temporary shop-specific shortages, but there is no overall shortage.

AuntieMarys · 05/01/2021 12:29

No dairy shortage

junglepie · 05/01/2021 13:01

I updated my online order a few days ago, no trouble with stock of anything EXCEPT butter! Almost every type of butter was out of stock. I thought it very odd. Don't know about milk because we get ours from a milkman from a local farm

KenAdams · 05/01/2021 13:18

Have you not got a milk shed near where you live? There's loads around here - the farmers have milk machines near the farm in a little shed and you collect your milk from there. If you aren't close to any farms, some corner shops/garden centre shops have them too.

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BlowDryRat · 05/01/2021 13:48

I've never even heard of a milk shed. I don't think there are any/many cows around here. It's mostly crops and some sheep.

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SpikySara · 05/01/2021 13:51

Dairy is produced in the UK so I haven’t noticed a shortage. The only shortage I’ve seen is soft fruit which is imported at this time of year. And now loo roll is out of stock too.

BashfulClam · 05/01/2021 14:05

In the march lockdown when the shelves were gate the vegan meals the only thing left. People couldn’t even be forced to eat that garbage (not against vegans they can make very healthy means but the processed stuff is rubbish).

EvilPea · 05/01/2021 14:07

If memory serves me right dairy is always a bit like this after Christmas.

Suzi888 · 05/01/2021 14:09

We don’t need baby cow foodGrin

chipsandpeas · 05/01/2021 14:10

i was in a supermarket yesterday evening about 2 hours after the announcement in scotland (was a preplanned trip) and there seemed to be elements of panic buying going on mainly bread and milk

movingonup20 · 05/01/2021 14:15

Lidl was fully stocked today but last Thursday (New Years eve) it was like it had been raided

BashfulClam · 05/01/2021 14:19

@Suzi888

We don’t need baby cow foodGrin
We maybe don’t need it but I like it.
BashfulClam · 05/01/2021 14:20

Lucky I bought that bumper 24 pack of bog rolls!

natalienewname · 05/01/2021 14:54

I've had trouble getting semi skimmed milk this week, and butter.

And cream over New Year but I thought that was perhaps I was late getting my order in

bigbluebus · 05/01/2021 15:45

Plenty of milk, cheese, yoghurt creme fraiche in Lidl this morning when I went. Home Bargain didn't have any milk but I just assumed their delivery hadn't arrived yet (I was in there at 8.20am). Lidl had eggs too but I don't usually buy them there as I live in a rural area where there are plenty of local suppliers. We've got 2 milk bots within 1 mile of here too - selling 'raw' milk so definitely no shortages in this neck of the woods.

user1469530553 · 05/01/2021 16:23

Raw milk cannot be sold in Scotland

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