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

[Nowisthesummerofourdiscontent]

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.🙁

Why does that make me laugh?

I did grow my own. They were a mixed bag and some failed this year. I'm a notice gardener still.

Good point about buying locally. Bought uk coxes apples in M&S all others from New Zealand for heaven’s sake. The coxes apples were old. We’re an apple growing country so perhaps gaps on shelves might encourage local buying by supermarkets.

In the NW, haven't noticed any major shortages in recent months in any if our local supermarkets. We use Aldi for most, as it is the nearest, but use all the big 4 at different times.

It’s Brexit. We never have this problem in Spain

I "thought" my Tesco was running short of more and more items, but eventually found out it was only when I shopped using my favourites.

If I searched for the item there were in stock, but sneakily smaller. Lots of items have reduced in size by a few grams or ml and means they have a new barcode. Latest is their rhubarb crumble - and it is all crumble and much less rhubarb.

It must be regional. I got my shop on Friday and the only thing they didn’t have was a Halloween decoration and some seasonal candles.

No problem today at morrisons.

Ocado was like this all the time. Don’t bother online food shopping anymore.

Didn't have a problem. We usually go early Saturday morning. What a treat 🤣.

Had a oceado delivery today and nothing missing and everything in a good date

Just got this text before logged into here. What I usually do is buy an extra tin or something every week to guarantee I have what I need.

Our Tesco shop arrived today - £70 worth of stuff, no substitutions or missing items - it's been like that for weeks here.

I live outside a small town in the southwest. Tesco sometimes has gaps on the shelves but a checkout operator told me it's because management won't employ enough staff to unload lorries and stack shelves. I have always been able to get alternatives there. I did an Aldi shop today. No gaps anywhere. As for courgettes and beans...I have a vegetable plot and am usually so overwhelmed with courgettes and beans etc that I'm practically begging people to take them off my hands. I always grow only 2 courgette plants and that gives us enough and to spare. This year it's been exceptionally dry. Hardly any beans or raspberries and only 2 courgettes. I expect farmers had worse crops than usual, too, hence the shortages some of you are seeing. Nothing to do with Brexit or Ukraine. All to do with climate change. Next year I'm aiming to grow veggies which are happy to have dry spells.

Where I live online orders are picked from one huge store, the obne nearest to meis smaller and never seems to be out of stock. I assume as hundreds of orders are picked from just one store it's bound to run out

My local supermarkets are missing some products too. However, they are still full of food. If they don't have a particular item or ingredient, just eat something different?

No-one starved, and people's health improved!

And it was bloody miserable. (I was born in the last years of rationing.)

The shelves in my local Asda look more like the depleted shelves of Eastern Europe in the 1990s than the shelves in the Spanish and Portuguese supermarkets I visited recently.

And it’s worth mentioning that one reason people’s health improved was that rations were an improvement on the seriously poor pre-war nutrition that many endured. George Orwell’s writing gives a distressing description of this, I think in The Road to Wigan Pier. I’ll check.

My local Aldi has no chicken breast filters, frozen or fresh.
They have a tonne of Christmas party food though. And turkeys. But their normal stock is missing and by the looks of the apocalypse in our town we will survive on turkeys and mini quiche.

Tesco stores have this system where the cages are filled at their main warehouse. So they get unpacked when staff are available in whatever order the pickers at the depot put them on. So you might have something like butter that’s selling well but it won’t appear on the shelves until someone gets to it at the bottom. So things look out of stock but it could be stuck on a cage inaccessible until staff come in the next day .

I've got one in my fridge from an independent greengrocer on the market. Cost me 30p I prefer to buy them lose. I don't use them often.

Well obviously we do. Buy it is not how it used to be.

I don't think we're all going to starve like the famines in African countries ffs. If you can't get it there you will be able to find it somewhere else.

If they only have a few in stock they would rather have it on the shelves so shelves look less bare. So they make it unavailable to online shoppers. It's not the end of the world. Get off your bum and go into the shops and look.

I often find this then they come back in before the order is due , when I book my slot 4 weeks in advance I just put a few things in the basket , then update it a few days before then again the day before I double check it for items that might not be available.

Jeez calm down Mrs Trunchbull.