AIBU to think that Tesco should still stock Easter eggs on Easter Saturday.....

[CurlyhairedAssassin]

......rather than clear it all for Passover stuff which isn't for another 3 weeks?

It seems to be getting worse each year. Middle of January was when they first started stocking Easter stuff. I'd only just got the house clear after the mess of Christmas, why would I want to buy Easter stuff then and have to find somewhere to store it all for 2 months.

It boils my piss. There are not even any mini eggs or Lindt bunnies left. All cleared for Passover stuff which is still a few weeks off.

Tesco do know that people want to shop for Easter during Easter bank holiday weekend because they've got the usual traditional food in like lamb and hot cross buns. but their Easter display which they've had for weeks and weeks has been switched to Passover.


Aldi seem to get it right- stock the seasonal stuff a few weeks before and there are usually a few bits left a day or two before the seasonal event. Dunno about the others cos I haven't been anywhere else today.

But tesco......grrrrrr......

[blobbityblob]

It drives me mad too. You have to pre-plan your easter egg buying here - the whole town stops selling them on Good Friday. Tesco replaced the egg aisle with gardening things here.

[HarlotBronte]

I quite like kosher wine. And I'm about as Jewish as a bacon and brie baguette.

[thebestfurchinchilla]

Been to Aldi today and they still had Easter stuff. Not big eggs but bunnies and small eggs.

[TooAswellAlso]

My local Mccolls has the kids sizes eggs reduced to 50p today. A whole trolley full.

[SinisterBumFacedCat]

At my local Tesco they had pretty much run out of everything but mini eggs, chocolate mint and broken bits by Wednesday

[notamummy10]

To answer the question why can't shops wait until Easter Monday to get rid of the Easter stock: because Easter Sunday is the main event. Easter Monday is just a bank holiday (precisely the first Monday bank holiday of the year).

[CurlyhairedAssassin]

Glowfrog: Happy Birthday! . Hope you've had a couple of cards and presents off someone at least, if not your DP!

SIN: I would love to think that Tesco cleared the Easter stuff away to take to children's homes and the like. it would be nice though, if they at least put something like the following sign up on the giant wall of Easter eggs that has not gone down in size in all the weeks it's been there, something like "these are all the Easter eggs we have - we have no more in stock in our storeroom so please don't ask, and we aren't getting any more deliveries, so when they're gone, they're gone. Which we anticipate will be the day before Easter Sunday." It's the lack of info that irritates me.

Just literally a few days ago there was still a massive wall of eggs on pallets at the entrance and I haven't seen anyone buying ANY during my last 2 visits in the last week. So I do like to think that some kind of Daddy Warbucks figure came in just before 11pm on Friday night and bought the lot to distribute to needy children.

[thesockgap]

I popped into Tesco yesterday to try and get 2 Easter eggs as although I'd bought what I thought I needed, to give to the children in extended family, over a month ago, I realised I'd forgotten 2 (think huge family!)
There wasn't a single egg left, nor even anything like those Malteaster bunnies or Mini Eggs.
Where all the Easter stuff had been, was an aisle dedicated to "Al Fresco dining" - plastic plates and cups, garden chairs, barbecue aprons etc. For one thing it's still March, freezing and blowing a gale, but for another why not wait until Easter Monday to get rid of all the Easter goodies?!

[SINdicator]

Chatting with Tesco Manager a while back about what happens with out of date food that is still edible. Clearly they wish to promote themselves as ethically responsible by cutting down on food waste and involving charitable organisations to redistribute what they can.

Involving charities in your business dealings is obviously a good idea to promote your company's image (what do you mean? not cynical in the least). In a similar way; it wouldn't surprise me ('though I don't know) that they might have promised some charity for disadvantaged children to supply them any remaining Easter Eggs. It would need the Saturday to administer/collect/transport/deliver if so.

I don't know what's in the "Passover" aisle either, as I've always passed over it.😁

[MadisonAvenue]

After trying Tesco yesterday morning (oldest son wanted to buy some as gifts) and having no luck, we went around a nearby (small) city and found nothing apart from HUGE handcrafted ones. Tried Asda last night and all they had left were Marmite ones (I suspect they won't be manufactured next year...).

[BikeRunSki]

There were some in my little Tesco local this morning. Not many, but some big ones, and a few packets of mini eggs and the like.

[damibasiamille]

Still at the thought of Marmite Easter eggs.

MARMITE EASTER EGGS ?? Are they halfway edible?

Someone please explain.

[jollyfrenchy]

Buddha I'm with you, I've been frustrated trying to buy summer stuff in August, as the shops have already moved on to autumn, despite the fact it is actually still summer. Just cos the season's about to change doesn't stop children growing out of or losing shoes does it?

[jollyfrenchy]

No easter chocolate left in our Sainsburys yesterday either except a single Frozen mug with egg in it. No mini eggs. That makes no sense given that they stock mini eggs at other times of year anyway. Also no Flakes (lots of people making easter nests I guess). They did however have a glut of reduced hot cross buns.

It is a bit wierd because I know in the past I have bought Easter eggs reduced after the day, including a chocolate Gruffalo my daughter had for her birthday, and a beautiful Tinkerbell egg with silver on it, both a couple of quid, previously £10-£15.

[jamdonut]

There were plenty of eggs in our Tesco, and Morrison's yesterday. Never ever seen Passover stuff!!! But then I don't think we have anything resembling a Jewish " community" in our area. We tend to do Chinese New Year in a fairly big way, though. And there is the permanent Polish aisle.

[Maladicta]

None in the big Asda yesterday so kids haven't got any and frankly I don't think they're at all bothered. Not being able to buy them on Easter Saturday may be the way to go in future

[grapejuicerocks]

I've been in this situation too having eaten all the cheap ones bought ages in advance and in secret ended up paying a fortune for the only humongous expensive ones that were left.

[CamboricumMinor]

I was just in our local Sainsburys, they have masses of easter eggs - the person in front of me bought two shrink wrapped packs of about 50 eggs

[glowfrog]

Who cares about bloody eggs and chocolate. It's my birthday today and DH didn't manage to get me a card or a present. It's the 2nd time in 3 years, and the first time I NEVER got anything, not even late. What makes it more painful is that he used to be great with birthdays. I've been proper spoiled....

[AphroditeNymphia]

YANBU it is ridiculous that you have more chance of getting an Easter Egg on New Years Day than on Easter Saturday. When I was a child/ teenager you could get Easter stuff right up to the holiday and beyond (you could always count on a cheap Easter Egg on Easter Tuesday) now they have it all cleared away and as for unsold stock I have been in Tesco late at night and have witnessed them stripping the shelves of unsold items that are never seen again. I have also witnessed them filling bin bags (marked not for consumption) full of bread that I could have purchased 5 minutes previous on a Sunday evening, but that is another story.

[gazzalw]

Lidl near us had loads left yesterday evening but that's because 75% of its usual customer base has returned home to Poland for Easter methinks .

Up until a few years ago (possibly a decade?) shops used to be well overstocked for all seasonal celebrations but store managers now seem a lot more savvy and plan for what they think they will sell ahead of the festivity
(rather than having a surfeit after the event). As a budget-holding manager you know it makes sense but as a bargain-hunting consumer it can be frustrating.

And yes, best to plan ahead rather than leave it until the 11th hour really. Experience has shown this to be true. It was obvious from the frenzy of Easter Egg shopping going on ahead of the children breaking up from school that there would be little left come yesterday's last minute panic.

[limitedperiodonly]

I curse my DP for choosing the career path he did sometimes.

YY One of the things that made him realise he had to get out of retail or get his own shop was in 1990.

He'd booked the weekend off and we went to Bath. We had a lovely time and got back to the hotel at about 6pm to change for dinner. There were no mobile phones, so the first we heard of the Poll Tax Riots was when we switched on the telly.

The shop where he worked was at the centre of the riots. He phoned his boss to make sure everyone was okay and also to find out whether the shop had been looted.

His boss went crazy: 'What's wrong with you? Why didn't you come back?' It transpired that everyone was safe and the miscreants had been repelled by riot police before storming the shop.

As I said, the idea, that my husband should monitor was was happening at his place of work on one of his rare weekends off and should drive back 150 miles to defend some fucking jumpers with his life, was what made him think that a change had to happen .

That and various other things involving shitty management, being the keyholder when the fucking alarm kept going off at 3am or outrageously demanding customers. He actually really likes many of his customers, whether regulars or one-offs. But there are people who make you think: 'Er, no I don't think so.'

[Buddahbelly]

Waves back at thereal I often wonder whilst im out if im passing another mn-etter I probably have done many a time!

Its the same with all the summer stuff, not just swimming trunks, middle of august last year and I had to drive round 4 tescos and asda's trying to get ds a cap, as he'd lost his other one, because you know that's when the sun is out and you'd think they'd stock summer things in actual summer.

But no I was faced with rails of jumpers and autumn jackets whilst wandering around in shorts and flip flops. It amazes me every single year, why are they always 3-4 months ahead of the season? Bring them out when people need them and they will surely buy them, if they bring them out early (as they do) then surely by the time the people need the items they are already pushing the next season on us, so the items end up going in the sale to get rid of them.

Surely it makes more sense financially to have people pay full price rather than putting them in the sale and making a loss on the stock.

[AtAt]

Whoops, wrong thread, sorry!

[AtAt]

I think that there have always been kids who'd get loads of stuff for Easter, but as Facebook wasn't around, you never saw it. Each to their own....