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Tesco is out of stock for everything - we’re doomed!

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Nowisthesummerofourdiscontent · 16/10/2022 08:52

Logged onto the Tesco site this morning to book a slot for early November. Everything is showing out of stock! Perhaps they know something we don’t…
Apparently they only have one type of red wine to sell (Malbec) and that’s out of stock, too. Gonna be a long and hard winter.🙁

Tesco is out of stock for everything - we’re doomed!
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DoubleDinnurs · 16/10/2022 12:58

Useitorloseit · 16/10/2022 08:54

Haven't been able to get a courgette from them for weeks!

I've struggled to get courgettes from Aldi, but they had them this week for the first time in about a month.

RedToothBrush · 16/10/2022 13:09

Lesserspotteddogfish · 16/10/2022 12:52

Yes, it’s a complete mystery how any country manages to survive outside the EU. It’s not as if the government had years to prepare for it either…

Not all countries have supermarkets in the same way as the uk.

The us is the only place I've been where they have them on the same scale. Supermarkets in Europe and Aus/NZ are much smaller and have much more limited ranges.

They are also less sophisticated in terms of the psychological trips they use to maximise sales.

Markets are much more prevelant elsewhere too. We buy less local fresh produce compared with many other places and we buy much more processed food than other places.

So impacts to the global supply chain from covid, Ukraine and weather will perhaps hit us in different ways and to different degrees. We also have issues with Brexit - more complex paperwork (which checks on has been delayed multiple times) and labour as well as our currently dodgy pound are unique to the uk.

We are much more demanding in terms of the range of products we want too. That makes it harder for supermarkets to keep everything on the shelves to begin with.

I love going to supermarkets in other countries because they give you such a different insight into the country and cultural differences.

I have to say one of the reasons I currently prefer shopping in Aldi is precisely because its smaller and has less of a range. One of the tricks to get you to spend more is simply to get you to stay in the store as long as possible - that's one reason that you don't have a basics section where your milk, bread, eggs are near each other. They are spread out so you have to traipse around... Ikea are the very best example of how this is done!

RedToothBrush · 16/10/2022 13:11

Want to make yourself spend less? Take a list and do the timed shop challenge.

My record for ikea purchases is 9 minutes...

KangarooKenny · 16/10/2022 13:11

My order came this morning, only one thing substituted.

Sharming · 16/10/2022 13:18

Lidl has been like this for months - loads of empty shelves, things like penne pasta, chickpeas, toilet roll just entirely absent

KatherineJaneway · 16/10/2022 13:20

I assume tech issues. I can't even get into the site.

kateandme · 16/10/2022 13:24

I assume people have called this glitch in?

kateandme · 16/10/2022 13:27

DoubleDinnurs · 16/10/2022 12:58

I've struggled to get courgettes from Aldi, but they had them this week for the first time in about a month.

This is NOT me being a mumsnet asswholes.so please don't take it as me being patronising with my good life 10acres veg garden....but have you ever tried growing them.or space, cost to do so?they were so easy and we got the biggest glut once they started coming.

Esmereldaeats · 16/10/2022 13:32

I’m an online shopper at Sainsbury’s. Shelves are stocked completely as normal. I’m sure it’s the same at Tesco. That’s almost certainly just a weird glitch I guess.

Xtraincome · 16/10/2022 13:35

Sainsburys was good/well-stocked yesterday. Tesco good on Thursday too.

Maybe it's regional? I'm in Northamptonshire.

froginawell · 16/10/2022 13:39

mummybearcub2022 · 16/10/2022 09:02

Utterly fed up of the gaps, nipping in to quickly get something to find it’s out of stock and having to go to another supermarket. 😡

also all the value items constantly out of stock for example the 50p value tube of tomatoe purée, all that left sitting on the shelf is the £2.50 Gino dicampo tubes. Drives me absolutely nuts.

This. Exactly this

Croque · 16/10/2022 13:42

If they ever start running low on the Gino Dicampo range then I'll know things are really bad.
I don't even take those overpriced, aspirational ranges into consideration.

Uptheclarets · 16/10/2022 13:42

There system has been hacked. The delivery driver told me yesterday. I couldn't get a pack of normal mushrooms and ended up ordering 12 single mushrooms but instead they sent me 17 boxes of organic mushrooms!!! Also, I only order to bottles of milk and got 9!!!

SquigglePigs · 16/10/2022 13:49

chipshopElvis · 16/10/2022 09:24

Haven't been able to order various things online from tesco for ages including courgettes and own brand shreddies but we have plenty of food so only mildly annoying. Hope it's not getting worse though.

These are the two things that have been most missed in our house too! Courgettes are back in stock in ours today though!

Ambertonix · 16/10/2022 14:00

I think the main thing with trying to order so far in advance and things looking like they are not available is that by then, the price will have gone up or some things may no longer be available. I noticed when butter shot up in price in my Tesco, both salted and unsalted were showing as out of stock and then when they reappeared they had gone up about 50p. I suspect this is what will happen here.

antelopevalley · 16/10/2022 14:02

There are big regional variations. Where I live all the supermarkets have things out of stock and empty shelves pretty regularly. Where my sister lives the same supermarkets are always full.

whatistheworld · 16/10/2022 14:05

its also BREXIT causing supply problems and the UK Government still haven't fully implemented the checks on imports as they know it will make prices rise even more and cause further supply issues

BMW6 · 16/10/2022 14:14

"Wanker" leaps up in mine

Emmmie · 16/10/2022 14:22

My Tesco has discontinued almost everything I used to buy for my baby...cereal, pouches, ready to drink formula. It says " removed from the range"🤔

PuzzledObserver · 16/10/2022 14:36

I don’t shop online, but often find that certain items are repeatedly out of stock in the supermarket from time to time. For a while it was tissues, then ridged crisps. They’ll be out of stock for ages, then they get some which sell out, then they have phases of having plenty and phases where they don’t.

I think it’s Brexit, personally. We won’t starve, but we may not be able to have our first or even second choice.

Allthegoodnamesarechosen · 16/10/2022 14:44

Tesco in Abingdon was rammed with stuff on Thursday. No problems at all.

Perhaps they don’t want to commit to having stuff in stock three weeks in advance?

Cuckoomonster · 16/10/2022 14:46

It's always like this on a Sunday. Check tomorrow and things will show as in stock

ILeclercreturn · 16/10/2022 14:50

It is interesting seeing some declare it is NOT Brexit and some saying it IS. As with all of like it is never one thing or another. For example although Brexit has been declared 'Done' there are still hundreds of little dribbles of aspects that have not yet been implemented so are therefore not done. The biometric checking necessary from March/May? to enter the EU is yet another hindrance to smooth flow of people and goods. The world generally is in a state of turmoil (Ukraine war, China threatening Taiwan, climate change being particularly noticeable the last 2 years, and Covid of course) so it takes careful consideration to determine WHICH factors are affecting your life (supermarket purchases) right now. There are still hundreds of shipping containers , presumably with good in them, stacked in the 'wrong' parts of the world since the Evergreen got wedged in the Suez canal.

whatkatydid2013 · 16/10/2022 14:51

We’ve never not been able to get what we need but have often found something we want isn’t in stock. It’s the same at all local supermarkets and definitely have seen more gaps in shelves since covid times and it’s worse generally recently though not as bad as during panic buying. I’m assuming it’s supply issues with limited drivers, stuff stuck at ports etc. You can generally get stuff if you go to another shop as gaps are all different so it’s not as if food is scarce it’s just logistics causing problems in individual stores. Irritating but a very 1st world problem

whatkatydid2013 · 16/10/2022 14:54

Surely no one actually believes it’s nothing to do with Brexit &/or it’s only to do with Brexit?

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