Can any Irish MNers tell me if there are gaps on Irish supermarket shelves

[PinkyParrot]

......or is it only Northern Ireland?

I would have thought it might affect Irish shoppers too.

I would think Ireland would also be affected.

AFAIK M&S has empty shelves but I haven't seen any othet supermarkets affected. Presume they stock much higher levels of Irish products?

Interesting. Thanks.

There’s a hoo-hah about the lack of Percy Pigs!

Hi yes there is. I've noticed it in Tesco, lidl , iceland and aldi in the last few weeks . Lots of stores seem to be running very low on fresh fruit/ veg/ meat/certain cheese/fresh fruit juices/yogurt. One of our Irish chains supervalu which is normally very well stocked was shockingly empty when I went last week no bread , fresh meat , prepacked sliced meats, fruit etc it was quite scary if I'm honest.

Yes, noticed shortages in fruit and veg, bread & prepared meals in Tesco, Lidl & M&S since last week.
We're all in strict lockdown at the moment so hard to tell whether the supply chain issues are due to Covid, Brexit or both.

Supervalu was really lacking in fruit & veg last week- we assumed it was linked to post-xmas shops. It's stocked backed up this week though.

I know DH had found lots of, not empty exactly but shelves with very little choice (so lots of potatoes but no other veg; or bottles of squash lined up in fridges to cover up empty shelves), and what was available had very short dates, when he was in M&S at the weekend. But M&S brings an awful lot of it's food in from the UK.

He was in the small local Tesco last night, and said that was fine, plenty there and no obvious gaps.

We generally do the main shop online, and SuperValu has had a few odd subs and couple of "not available" items in the past few weeks, more so than in recent months. So we had no bread at all last week, no lamb or part-baked bread or melon this week (I'd ordered 2 different types). But most things, including fresh things, arrived.

(I haven't physically been in a shop since before Christmas due to, well, shielding for asthma, even if we don't really use that term here)

I did a click and collect yesterday from SuperValu and substituted items included mushrooms, chillis and coconut milk. So either the picker was a teenager with no common sense or there were no mushrooms at all in the shop!
That's odd because we grow a lot ourselves so hard to know if it's Covid or Brexit as pp said.

I was in Tesco yesterday and the only thing I couldn't get was avocados. The whole section was completely empty.

I haven't noticed any shortages. I do my main shop in Aldi and top ups in my local Tesco Express. I'm in Dublin.

I only buy from Irish supermarkets but haven’t noticed any shortages/gaps.

Quite a mixed bag, must depend on whether deliveries are from over the border or not

My local.shop is fine. But my sainsburys has spar branded products in it !

Slightly more gaps in Tesco than usual, but only slightly. Dunnes and Aldi are fine.

We produce a lot of our own food so aren't so reliant on shipments from the UK.

No problems in tesco and supervalu where I am. Also fine in the smaller shops. Plenty of choice. I'm in dublin

I'm in rep of Ireland and I haven't noticed gaps or shortages in anything and I have been to lidl, aldi and tesco in the last week

Yes. Getting online tesco shops here.

Last weeks arrived without all the frozen veg. Popped in to see if I could get some sunday and the shelves were bare.

Finished off this weeks order last night and loads of the fresh meat was out of stock as well as the frozen veg still out of stock.

Difficult to say as fresh foods are often low after Christmas holidays. They are only getting back to normal about now.

Also steak missing from last weeks shop too now that I think of it.

Not really, apart from M&S. A few gaps in fresh fruit and veg at the beginning of last week, but I think that's more to do with the Christmas break than anything else. All fine this week.

I've only noticed cat litter being difficult to get and I haven't been able to get raspberries for the past few days. I live in a small town with only 2 supermarket choices though.

Could it have anything to do with the Snow in England at the back end of last week ?

Not really, no. Though I did have to hunt down pancetta the other week, there seemed to be none in the country!