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......

[DiscoGlitter]

Aldi's still got loads of Easter eggs, and a big display of Cadbury Crème egg ones.
I did a mad rush this morning for ours and was in luck as thought everything would be gone!
Morrisons were completely devoid of eggs when I went apart from a few of the massive ones.

[CurlyhairedAssassin]

Disco, I know, I did my main food shop in Aldi this morning and thought I'd better go to tesco for some branded eggs rather than the ones they had there (kids' parents can be a bit snobby about Aldi!!)

Wish I'd just got the perfectly good Aldi ones now!!

[ilovevegcrisps]

What does it stock? I wasn't doubting you, sorry! Just intrigued,

[TooAswellAlso]

I remember this last year. Hadn't bought three eggs that I desperately needed to get, and drove round about thirteen shops on Easter Saturday desperate.

[gaggiagirl]

my local Sainsburys has had the Passover bit running at the same time as the Easter section. There's a giant happy Passover poster next to the giant happy Easter one.
Passover goodies include bamba peanut puffs. Yum. There was some jam, candles,stock and jars of pickles and pop too.

[HermioneJeanGranger]

This is pretty common. Eggs don't sell after Easter (at least, not well enough to make it worthwhile selling them after Easter weekend), so they generally all get reduced so they're sold by close of sale on the Saturday.

The store I work in over-ordered on Christmas chocolates this year and we were still trying to flog tins of Roses for Valentine's Day!

[ilovevegcrisps]

I would definitely buy Easter eggs after Easter

[wtffgs]

Sainsbogs has loads! I once got a ton of naice Easter choc from Waitrose on Easter Monday but they've not made that stock error since. I usually leave it till today but have actually been more organised and got eggs, bunnies and mini eggs already

[Muddlewitch]

This has happened to me before op. I got mine on Thursday and even then stock was dwindling in Sainsbury's.

Both co ops near me have still got eggs.

[OrangeNoodle]

Waitrose had plenty this morning. Lots of gorgeous Easter stuff. Lovely Lindt eggs, beautiful Easter flowers, good cheeses and meats etc.

We don't have a Tesco or a Sainsbury's near us so I have no point of comparison. I can almost guarantee that Morrison's would have been an empty-shelved, trolley-barging nightmare though. Which is why I never go there.

[Lockheart]

I got to Asda before 9am today to do my normal shop before the crowds hit. They had not one Easter egg anywhere (they had bags of mini eggs and the Lindt bunnies). Luckily I didn't need any Easter eggs!

I can understand if I had gone in an hour before closing time, or even mid-afternoon and they'd run out. But no eggs at all the day before Easter? There will be many disappointed and possibly angry parents today. I'm glad I no longer work there!

[dogsnotsprogs]

I work at Tesco!

Currently, there's about 15 Easter eggs left in the warehouse and there's still lots on the shelves. However, the variety has gone and to me it seems, the stuff people didn't want is left (and the more expensive stuff ie Lindt.)

In my store (in south west) we brought out our eggs in mid Jan and then brought out offers and reductions after Valentines Day!

I was gutted after coming back from a week off to find all of the Reese's Easter Bunnies and the eggs I had wistfully stacked, pretty much gone.

[BikeGeek]

Obviously a different demographic around here. In our local Tesco the seasonal aisle moves straight on to gardening and bbq stuff after Easter

[rosy71]

I have never seen Passover stuff in Tesco. I wouldn't know what it was. I also thought Passover was before Easter. Isn't the Last Supper the Passover meal?

[x2boys]

It probably depends where you live ,in my part of bolton there's a large Muslim population so asda stocks s lot of stuff for eid etc in Prestwich there's a large Jewish population so i know the tesco stocks a lot of kosher stuff and I would imagine they stock passover things but i haven't seen it in bolton.

[MrsJayy]

Morrisons B&M and tescos had none today i got 2 in our corner shop my dds are far to old for Eggs but i still like to get them.

[Pipbin]

I also thought Passover was before Easter. Isn't the Last Supper the Passover meal

As I understand it the Last Supper was a Passover meal. However I believe that both Easter and Passover are moveable feasts and different things dictate their movements. Therefore they move independently of each other.

[Pipbin]

Here is a link to the Passover stuff in Ocado

You might also find that some regular stuff has Kosher for Passover stickers on it. My falafel did.

[Pipbin]

Nesquik for Passover, who knew?

[Pipbin]

Passover Yorkshire Tea

[trufflesnout]

Easter's timing has no influence on Passover. People compare them because they celebrate the same thing I guess, but neither has influence over the other. Easter's date is based on the moon and Passover's date is fixed to a certain month in the Jewish calendar (and also some moon stuff). Because of leap-years and lunar patterns they sometimes overlap. I have never ever seen a Passover aisle/display in a supermarket. Where is it!? I'm assuming it's just a big pile of matzo boxes...

[trufflesnout]

I don't keep kosher, but I might get the tea for the novelty box/sticker

[MrsJayy]

Why is tea and cola not kosher ?

[CordeliaFrost]

Easter is based on the solar calendar, whereas Passover is determined by the Jewish calendar, which is why Passover can be before, during or after Easter.

This year Passover is four weeks later (22 - 29 April).

That's because the Jewish calendar is a lunar calendar, and it has twelve months of 28 days, but every two or three years, an extra month is added. This is one of those years.

Passover is always during the 15th - 21st day of Nisan, and Nisan is the first month in the ecclesiastical calendar.

Adar is the twelfth month in the ecclesiastical calendar, so when the thirteenth month is added, that is known as Adar II. In years we have Adar II, it obviously pushes Nisan later, hence why Passover is significantly later than Easter this year.

I have probably confused everyone.

Apologies.

[Junosmum]

You don't shop in prestwich Tesco do you OP? Went in this morning and found no Easter eggs and almost out of hot cross buns!

I appreciate I live in an area with a high Jewish population and enjoy that fact but surely as Passover isn't for 3 weeks and Easter is TOMORROW that the matzo flour and kosher wine display could have waited 2 days (particularly when they stock almost all the stuff on another aisle all year round any way!).

Plus it's just been Purim, I'm sure my Jewish neighbours are recovering from that. AND they won't be shopping today any way as it's the Sabbath!