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

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......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......

well tesco had over stocked the pumpkins this year so that was good!

I love the idea that the Kosher police have gone to the Yorkshire tea factory, looked it up and down and said 'aye' before giving their stamp.

it is literally that ridiculous. I have a lovely mental image of the Kosher police in full orthodox black coat regalia with big beards, and instead of the traditional black hats they normally wear, they've all got flat caps on

Pipbin and bananafish the opening credits of The League Of Gentlemen were a tour of Royston Vasey, which I think is supposed to be somewhere in Yorkshire. There was a fleeting glimpse of a parody of The Full Monty poster with orthodox Jewish men, called The Shul Monty.

Asda had very little at 5pm yesterday.

I'm on my way to ASDA now, maybe some bargains.

This is the only link to the poster I can find. You have to scroll down.

Warning: There is a controversial but topical image involving the late, much-loved Ed Stewart and Easter

Storage space costs money, as anyone who's had to hire a space in one of those storage warehouses finds.

Why should shops keep stuff, which will take up the place of new stock, on the off chance that someone might come in and want one? Where would they put it?

Do you think it's like the Tardis or that final scene in Raiders Of The Lost Ark where the Ark of the Covenant is wheeled into an endless warehouse past an infinite number of precious artefacts?

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Sounds like my kinda guy! As you can tell, my patience has worn very thin recently. I curse my DP for choosing the career path he did sometimes. In the last two weeks he's been rung multiple times on his days off because 'something has happened' and with it being the run up to Easter he can't afford to let the shop slip (yes Easter really is that big a deal to anyone wondering). It has it's perks; any special occasion is not one of them...

I went on Thursday evening, Tesco was left with stuff I didn't want. ie more mugs aargh.
Waitrose had plenty and competitive prices

Same with advent calendars. My local waitrose only place to go for Cadbury's.

Tesco was left with mugs because you weren't the only person who didn't want them. I expect they will adjust their buying policy next year and there will be fewer mugs.

There were still some in our local Tesco and Asda yesterday but they usually do run out towards the end of the day. We live in majority Muslim area so no Passover stuff here. Aldi always seem to overstock and have loads left on sale prices after Easter.

Tesco here had creme eggs the day after New Year. It's almost like it gets earlier and earlier for all the festivals and we are encouraged to consume.

We also get a lot of promotions for Eid etc. They are good in the sense that I can pick up 6 months supply of rice.

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....

Whoops, wrong thread, sorry!

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.

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.'

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.

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.

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....

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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?